Tests fail with PouchDB@4.0.2

[gr2m]

follow up for #75 (comment)

Just checked it locally and could reproduce it with PouchDB@4.0.2, but not with 4.0.1. @NickColley are you looking into this already? It must have be something with the db.destroy() call here: https://github.com/hoodiehq/pouchdb-hoodie-api/blob/master/clear.js#L11

[gr2m]

fyi: pouchdb/pouchdb#4339

[NickColley]

@gr2m think it's todo with the stateless constructor but yeah I ran into the same thing.

[gr2m]

Okay, so a way around this would be to re-initialize the db instance on destroy. In the hoodie API, we don't have the option to manually re-initialize the hoodie.store API, so it must happen auto-magically ™️

No idea how though

[gr2m]

Is there a an alternative to db.destroy without performance issues in PouchDB?

[NickColley]

We have:

• https://github.com/marten-de-vries/pouchdb-erase - Loops over all docs and deletes them (Don't think this'll work)
• Feature Request - Method to Purge a document pouchdb/pouchdb#802 - Purge, not currently implemented but a highly requested feature, this is what I think hoodie needs for a non-hacky solution.

Unless we can implement purge I'd think we'd have to re instantiate the database ourselves.

[NickColley]

Okay, we throw an error in PouchDB now, so this will mean this test wont hang any more.

[gr2m]

could you check locally? Is the new PouchDB version out yet?

[nolanlawson]

No, it's not released yet. But 5.3.0 should have the fix.