Anyone here tried Room yet? Is it stable enough to...

# android

[bachhuberdesign]

Anyone here tried Room yet? Is it stable enough to use in a production app? Our cache is getting too unwieldy so we’re moving one of our apps from raw files -> SQLite

[david.bilik]

bachhuberdesign: I’ve heard that there is problem with kapt renaming function attributes and then not matching mapping in sql query to these attributes

[david.bilik]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-17959

[bachhuberdesign]

Good to know. That’s a pretty big issue

[trevjones]

seems like you could work around it by naming your stuff the same way the compiler does but then your code will look like 💩

[bachhuberdesign]

So it seems like if you just write the DAO interfaces in Java everything else works fine

[bachhuberdesign]

Seems like a good enough workaround until that bug gets fixed

[trevjones]

the issue was just marked as fixed so whenever we get 1.1.3

[bachhuberdesign]

Nice catch

[bod]

Yeah I would say the fact that there is “alpha” in the name of the current version kind of hints that it’s not ready for prod? 😉

[trevjones]

big YMMV on that one 😆

[myanmarking]

i saw a picture on reddit yesterday, a user asking if room is ready and compare it with Realm

[myanmarking]

lol. there is no possible comparison. Realm is mature and has tones of features. Room is just a baby that do basic abstraction with the legacy sql api

[trevjones]

Room doesn't do byte code weaving and impose huge restrictions on you. Also room uses sql which has an insane number of resources to learn from. Hardly a contest I'm. Only part I dont like about room is the way the query has to be compile time static. But that can give you other wins so maybe a good trade.