Avoid recreating databases

src/orbit/orbitActions.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export const ORBIT_IDENTITY_PROVIDER_FAILED = 'ORBIT_IDENTITY_PROVIDER_FAILED';
 // Database Status
 export const ORBIT_DATABASE_CREATING = 'ORBIT_DATABASE_CREATING';
 export const ORBIT_DATABASE_CREATED = 'ORBIT_DATABASE_CREATED';
+export const ORBIT_DATABASE_ALREADY_EXISTS = 'ORBIT_DATABASE_ALREADY_EXISTS';
 export const ORBIT_DATABASE_FAILED = 'ORBIT_DATABASE_FAILED';
 export const ORBIT_DATABASE_LISTEN = 'ORBIT_DATABASE_LISTEN';
 

src/orbit/orbitConstants.js

@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
-// All valid OrbitDB types
-export const ORBIT_TYPE_LOG = 'log';
-export const ORBIT_TYPE_FEED = 'feed';
-export const ORBIT_TYPE_KEYVALUE = 'keyvalue';
-export const ORBIT_TYPE_DOCS = 'docs';
-export const ORBIT_TYPE_COUNTER = 'counter';
-
 // OrbitDB Databases status
 export const DB_STATUS_INIT = 'init';
 export const DB_STATUS_READY = 'ready';

src/orbit/orbitSaga.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import OrbitDB from 'orbit-db';
 import Identities from 'orbit-db-identity-provider'
 
 import {
+    ORBIT_DATABASE_ALREADY_EXISTS,
     ORBIT_DATABASE_CREATED,
     ORBIT_DATABASE_CREATING,
     ORBIT_DATABASE_FAILED,
@@ -20,11 +21,8 @@ import {
     ORBIT_INITIALIZING
 } from './orbitActions';
 
-import { resolveOrbitDBTypeFun} from './orbitUtils';
-
 const LOGGING_PREFIX = 'orbitSaga: ';
 
-
 /*
  * Add Orbit Identity Provider
  */
@@ -70,15 +68,20 @@ function * initOrbit(action) {
     }
 }
 
+// Keeps track of added databases, so no duplicates are attempted to be created
+let databases = new Set();
+
 /*
  * Creates and loads an orbit database given a name and a type as its parameters
  * Note: db.name can also be an OrbitDB address
  */
 function * createDatabase({ orbit, db }) {
     try {
-        const dbTypeFun = resolveOrbitDBTypeFun(orbit, db.type);
+        const { size } = databases;
+        databases.add(orbit.id + db.name);
 
-        const createdDB = yield call([orbit, dbTypeFun], db.name);
+        if (databases.size > size) {
+            const createdDB = yield call([orbit, orbit.open], ...[db.name, { type: db.type, create: true }]);
 
             yield put({ type: ORBIT_DATABASE_CREATED, database: createdDB, timestamp: +new Date });
 
@@ -91,6 +94,9 @@ function * createDatabase({ orbit, db }) {
             yield call([createdDB, createdDB.load]);
 
             return createdDB;
+        }
+        else
+            yield put({ type: ORBIT_DATABASE_ALREADY_EXISTS, database: db.name });
     } catch (error) {
         yield put({ type: ORBIT_DATABASE_FAILED, error });
         console.error(LOGGING_PREFIX + 'OrbitDB database creation error:');

src/orbit/orbitUtils.js

@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-import * as orbitTypes from "./orbitConstants";
-
-export function resolveOrbitDBTypeFun(orbitdb, type){
-    let dbTypeFun;
-    switch(type) {
-        case orbitTypes.ORBIT_TYPE_LOG:
-            dbTypeFun = orbitdb.log;
-            break;
-        case orbitTypes.ORBIT_TYPE_FEED:
-            dbTypeFun = orbitdb.feed;
-            break;
-        case orbitTypes.ORBIT_TYPE_KEYVALUE:
-            dbTypeFun = orbitdb.keyvalue;
-            break;
-        case orbitTypes.ORBIT_TYPE_DOCS:
-            dbTypeFun = orbitdb.docs;
-            break;
-        case orbitTypes.ORBIT_TYPE_COUNTER:
-            dbTypeFun = orbitdb.counter;
-            break;
-        default:
-            throw "Invalid OrbitDB type!";
-    }
-    return dbTypeFun;
-}