What does it mean to SHARE data?

[davidakoontz]

I've been pondering this question for the last few months. Does the word share - have a specific meaning? Is it too general to have any technical meaning?

Yeah - I could use a dictionary... but I doubt that it has ALL the various meanings we give the word today in the 21st Century.

When I started developing my Stock Tracker App Portfolio Equity Curve, I had the feature of account sharing. And when I looked at the architecture of SwiftData I saw the 3 tier DB pattern (Public, Shared, Private). I guess I then made a few unfortunate assumptions. And when attempting to validate those assumptions ... well I guess I made even more! I assumed Apple would fill in the gaps of the SwiftData architecture to include data sharing (after all they named one of the tiers "Shared"!

OK... let's admit... assumptions were made - YES!

But does your experience with Apple products lead you towards believing that sharing is fundamentally part of the ecoSystem?

I admit defeat.... SwiftData does not share data by MY definition of the term.

I was happy to see SQLiteData does!

So I waited until Stewart Lynch published his (10 video) series on SQLiteData - Gift Registry.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBn01m5Vbs4CYoNYe55G1kijxeNza9SMe

Then I started porting PortfolioEC to SQLiteData. It has taken over a week. And I didn't do it all by myself... well I count the OpenAI Codex tool for doing 99.99% of the coding on this DB swap. It is DONE... over 400 files in the branch have changes. The test suite are in much better shape - unit, integration, and UI test. I'm left pondering if it would have been easier with a proper DB Interface layer? I've concluded NO!

What do you think?