Clients

This page is part of the Developer Section. It describes how to use BaseX from other programming languages.

With the following light-weight bindings in different programming languages, you will be able to connect to a running BaseX server instance, execute database commands, perform queries or listen to events. Most clients offer the following two classes:

• Standard Mode: connecting to a server, sending commands
• Query Mode: defining queries, binding variables, iterative evaluation

Please have a look at our Server Protocol for more information on the clients and the underlying protocol.
Bindings for other languages are easy to write; your contributions are welcome.

Currently, we offer bindings for the following programming languages:

Object oriented

C#, VB, Scala, Java

Scala: contributed by Manuel Bernhardt

ActionScript: contributed by Manfred Knobloch

Scripting

Perl

PHP (example)

Python 3.x, 2.7.3: contributed by Hiroaki Itoh

Python < 2.7: improved by Arjen van Elteren

Rebol: contributed by Sabu Francis

Ruby

Functional

Haskell: contributed by Leo Wörteler

Lisp: contributed by Andy Chambers

Others

node.js: contributed by Andy Bunce

Qt: contributed by Hendrik Strobelt

C

Many of the interfaces contain the following files:

• BaseXClient contains the code for creating a session, sending and executing commands and receiving results. An inner Query class facilitates the binding of external variables and iterative query evaluation.
• Example demonstrates how to send database commands.
• QueryExample shows you how to evaluate queries in an iterative manner.
• QueryBindExample shows you how to bind a variable to your query and evaluates the query in an iterative manner.
• CreateExample shows how new databases can be created by using streams.
• AddExample shows how documents can be added to a database by using streams.
• EventExample demonstrates how to watch and unwatch Events.