IDBObjectStore.get()

If a value is successfully found, then a structured clone of it is created and set as the result of the request object.

Syntax

var request = objectStore.get(myItem);

Returns

An IDBRequest object on which subsequent events related to this operation are fired.

Exceptions

This method may raise a DOMException of one of the following types:

Example

In the following code snippet, we open a read/write transaction on our database and get one specific record from object store using get() — a sample record with the key "Walk dog". Once this data object is retrieved, you could then update it using normal JavaScript, then put it back into the database using  a IDBObjectStore.put operation. For a full working example, see our To-do Notifications app (view example live.)

// Let us open our database
var DBOpenRequest = window.indexedDB.open("toDoList", 4);

DBOpenRequest.onsuccess = function(event) {
  note.innerHTML += '<li>Database initialised.</li>';
    
  // store the result of opening the database in the db variable. This is used a lot below
  db = DBOpenRequest.result;
    
  // Run the getData() function to get the data from the database
  getData();
};

function getData() {
  // open a read/write db transaction, ready for retrieving the data
  var transaction = db.transaction(["toDoList"], "readwrite");

  // report on the success of opening the transaction
  transaction.oncomplete = function(event) {
    note.innerHTML += '<li>Transaction completed: database modification finished.</li>';
  };

  transaction.onerror = function(event) {
    note.innerHTML += '<li>Transaction not opened due to error: ' + transaction.error + '</li>';
  };

  // create an object store on the transaction
  var objectStore = transaction.objectStore("toDoList");

  // clear all the data out of the object store
  var objectStoreRequest = objectStore.get("Walk dog");

  objectStoreRequest.onsuccess = function(event) {
    // report the success of our get operation
    note.innerHTML += '<li>Record retrieved.</li>';

    var myRecord = objectStoreRequest.result;
  };

};

Parameters

key

The key or key range that identifies the record to be retrieved.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Using IndexedDB
• Starting transactions: IDBDatabase
• Using transactions: IDBTransaction
• Setting a range of keys: IDBKeyRange
• Retrieving and making changes to your data: IDBObjectStore
• Using cursors: IDBCursor
• Reference example: To-do Notifications (view example live.)