Replacing Sqlite in a black-boxed application

Makeshift

Hi,

I came across this project as I'm interested in creating a HA/load balanced modification to Plex Media Server. However, Plex is closed-source and I am not able to change the reference to the db file.

I am able to modify the library used to access Sqlite (by replacing libsqlite3.so), but not the reference to the database on disk.

Is it possible to modify the library to override the DB string so I don't need to change the connection string in the code?

Thanks

Bernardo

Hello!

You can modify the library on the sqlite3_open_v2 function to detect the file name being requested to be opened and then changing it.

Or you can rename libsqlite3.so to a specific name to be used only by this app, change the app to use this new lib, and modify that function to just use a fixed URI string.

Please also make sure you have license to make this. As you are modifying an underlying library and not the application itself, maybe this can be allowed.

You will also need a LiteSync license for this.