Here's how to migrate your backend Google Apps Script spreadsheet to a parse.com database in a few minutes.

1. do something useful with
Apps Script in 5 minutes
2.Graduate to a database
Bruce McPherson
www.mcpher.com

2. Snippet objectives
● Use the lessons learned in ‘using a
spreadsheet as a database’
● Migrate data to a database - This example
uses Parse.com
Libraries used
● database abstraction
● driver sheet
● driver parse

3. Add libraries to script
create a script
Open resources
Add references to libraries
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4. Sign up to Parse.com
● Sign up to parse.com
● Create an application
● Get api keys
We’re going to need the
● Application ID
● REST API Key

5. Store keys in properties
We’ll use the script properties
Just need to run this once
function storeMyKeys () {
PropertiesService.getScriptProperties().setProperty( "parseKeys", JSON.stringify ({
restAPIKey:'9oQAS9MO2fccccccccccccccccn4vp8',
applicationID:'kaIR5Tak4Ycccccccccczl1TgyO2'
}));
}

6. layout what you are going to do
function myFunction() {
// open spreadsheet as database
// get all the data
// open parse.com database
// delete any data already there
// write the data
// check count against original
}

7. Get a handler for the sheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14xvwnQwhvw4jSGRBo7ZbJvNaNu438-5mMl2u_TJswlw/edit?usp=sharing
// open spreadsheet as database
var handler = new cDbAbstraction.DbAbstraction (cDriverSheet, {
siloid:'carrierCodes',
dbid:'14xvwnQwhvw4jSGRBo7ZbJvNaNu438-5mMl2u_TJswlw',
});
if (!handler.isHappy()) throw 'unable to open sheet';

8. Get all the data
// get all the data
var result = handler.query();
if (result.handleCode < 0) throw result.handleError;

9. Get a handler for parse.com
// open parse.com database
var parseHandler = new cDbAbstraction.DbAbstraction (cDriverParse, {
siloid:'carrierCodes',
driverob:JSON.parse(
PropertiesService.getScriptProperties().getProperty("parseKeys"))
});
if (!parseHandler.isHappy()) throw 'unable to open parse.com';

10. Delete any parse.com data
// delete any data already there
var parseResult = parseHandler.remove();
if (parseResult.handleCode < 0) throw parseResult.handleError;

11. Migrate the data over from Sheet
// write the data
var parseResult = parseHandler.save(result.data);
if (parseResult.handleCode < 0) throw parseResult.handleError;
check it -
using the
parse.com
dashboard

12. Check the counts match
// check count against original
if (parseHandler.count().data[0].count !== handler.count().data[0].count) throw 'oops'

13. Go and play on parse.com
Repeat the examples in ‘using a spreadsheet as a database’
The only difference is how you get a handler.
// open spreadsheet as database
var handler = new cDbAbstraction.DbAbstraction (cDriverSheet, {
siloid:'carrierCodes',
dbid:'14xvwnQwhvw4jSGRBo7ZbJvNaNu438-5mMl2u_TJswlw',
});
// open parse.com database
var parseHandler = new cDbAbstraction.DbAbstraction (cDriverParse, {
siloid:'carrierCodes',
driverob:JSON.parse(
PropertiesService.getScriptProperties().getProperty("parseKeys"))
});

14. Follow up materials
Take a copy of this script
Take a copy of the sheet
Take a copy of these slides
Join me on G+, or the G+ community
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