Syntax

table.bulkAdd(items, keys?, options?);

Parameters

When to use the keys argument

• If your primary key is inbound, you MUST NOT provide the keys argument.
• If primary key is non-inbound but auto-incremented, keys argument is optional.
• If primary key is non-inbound and non-auto-incremented, keys argument is compulsory.

var db = new Dexie("test");
db.version(1).stores({
    tableWithInboundKeys: "id,x,y,z", // Don't provide "keys"
    tableWithAutoIncNonInbound: "++,x,y,x", // Optionally provide "keys"
    tableWithoutInboundKeys: ",x,y,z" // Always provide "keys"
});

Return Value

If options argument is omitted, or options is {allKeys: false}, the return value is a promise resolving with the resulting primary key of the object that was last in given array:

Promise<LastKey>

Since 3.0.0-rc.2: If options argument is provided in second or thirs argument with {allKeys: true}, the return value is a promise resulting with an array of resulting primary keys. The resulting array will have the same length as given array of objects to add.

Promise<Key[]>

Errors

If some operations fail, bulkAdd will ignore those failures but return a rejected Promise with a Dexie.BulkError referencing failures. If caller does not catch that error, transaction will abort. If caller wants to ignore the failes, the bulkAdd() operations must be catched. NOTE: If you call bulkAdd() outside a transaction scope and an error occur on one of the operations, the successful operations will still be persisted to DB! If this is not desired, surround your call to bulkAdd() in a transaction and catch the transaction’s promise instead of the bulkAdd() operation.

Remarks

Add all given objects to the store.

If you have a large number of objects to add to the object store, bulkAdd() is a little faster than doing add() in a loop.

If you do bulkAdd () within a transaction and don’t catch the operation explicitly, the entire transaction will fail and roll back if any one item has an existing primary key. Catching the bulkAdd () will make sure any successful operation succeeds while failed operations are just ignored.

Difference between bulkPut() and bulkAdd()

bulkAdd() will fail to add any item with same primary key whilst bulkPut () will succeed and update those records as well as the new ones.

Sample

var db = new Dexie("test");
db.version(1).stores({
    raindrops: 'id,position'
});
var drops = [];
for (var i=0;i<100000;++i) {
    drops.push({id: i, position: [Math.random(),Math.random(),Math.random()]}),
}
db.raindrops.bulkAdd(drops).then(function(lastKey) {
    console.log("Done adding 100,000 raindrops all over the place");
    console.log("Last raindrop's id was: " + lastKey); // Will be 100000.
}).catch(Dexie.BulkError, function (e) {
    // Explicitely catching the bulkAdd() operation makes those successful
    // additions commit despite that there were errors.
    console.error ("Some raindrops did not succeed. However, " +
       100000-e.failures.length + " raindrops was added successfully");
});

See Also

Table.bulkGet()

Table.bulkPut()

Table.bulkDelete()

Table.add()