Handle Object with Text Longer than 21k

Data Service
1

How does one handle saving an object where a column, say “text”, is longer than 21k characters? The limit throws an error.

2

Databases are not that great for large amount of text. What I’d recommend in that case is to store your text in a file. That operation will return the URL for the file. Then you can store that URL in a column in your data table.

3

Is it possible to write a service or beforeCreate handler that can detect when the amount of text is too large and move it to a file?

4

Yes, it’s possible, check this docs https://backendless.com/docs/bl-js/bl_event_handlers.html

Regards,
Stanislaw