Query Mode
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The query mode of the Language Bindings allows you to bind external variables to a query
and evaluate the query in an iterative manner. For this, you need to call the query()
function
of the Session
instance with your defined query. This will return a query object,
which comes with a forward-only iterator. Variables can be bound to the query using the
bind()
function of the query object.
Usage
The query execution works as follows:
- Create a new session instance with hostname, port, username and password.
- Call the
query()
function of the session with the query as argument to get your query object. - Optionally bind variables to the query with the
bind()
function. - Initialize query output via
init()
. - Iterate through the query object with the
more()
andnext()
functions. If an error occurs, an exception is thrown. - As an alternative, call
execute()
to get the whole result at a time. This will be faster in most cases, as the socket communication will be limited to a single call. - Optionally, call
info()
to get information on the number of results, query time, etc. - Close the query with
close()
.
Example in PHP
<?php /* * This example shows how queries can be executed in an iterative manner. * Documentation: http://basex.org/api * * (C) BaseX Team 2005-11, ISC License */ include("BaseXClient.php"); try { // create session $session = new Session("localhost", 1984, "admin", "admin"); try { // create query instance $input = 'declare variable $name external; '. 'for $i in 1 to 10 return element { $name } { $i }'; $query = $session->query($input); // bind variable $query->bind("$name", "number"); // initialize query print $query->init(); // loop through all results while($query->more()) { print $query->next()."\n"; } // close query instance print $query->close(); } catch (Exception $e) { // print exception print $e->getMessage(); } // close session $session->close(); } catch (Exception $e) { // print exception print $e->getMessage(); } ?>
for more examples see the languages section.