Perl BaseX API questions

Am 12.12.2012 20:48 schrieb "Liam R E Quin" <liam at w3.org>: > (1) The sample perl files and the perl module implementing the API > mention a readme file that explains the methods; does anyone know where > one might find such a readme file? It might answer my other question... > > (2) if there's an error in my query and I catch the exception, the > message I get is about how many milliseconds the query took, not the > actual error. I can enclose my Perl script, but I'm wondering if others > have seen this? > > Thanks, > > Liam > > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > (fromoldbooks.org uses BaseX e.g. for Search and for the tag cloud) > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

> (1) The sample perl files and the perl module implementing the API > mention a readme file that explains the methods; does anyone know where > one might find such a readme file? It might answer my other question...

> (2) if there's an error in my query and I catch the exception, the > message I get is about how many milliseconds the query took, not the > actual error. I can enclose my Perl script, but I'm wondering if others > have seen this?

On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 18:30 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > Hi Liam, > > > (1) The sample perl files and the perl module implementing the API > > mention a readme file that explains the methods; does anyone know where > > one might find such a readme file? It might answer my other question... > > The quoted readme.txt file is currently found in the parent directory, > which lists all other client APIs [1].

> > (2) if there's an error in my query and I catch the exception, the > > message I get is about how many milliseconds the query took, not the > > actual error. I can enclose my Perl script, but I'm wondering if others > > have seen this? > > In Perl, the error message can be retrieved by enclosing the query > with eval {...} and printing $@ if an error occurs. This is eg shown > in Example.pl. If this does not help, you are invited to send us an > example that demonstrates what goes wrong.

> open rdf

> run /home/liam/tmp/error.xq

>

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam at w3.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 18:30 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: >> Hi Liam, >> >> > (1) The sample perl files and the perl module implementing the API >> > mention a readme file that explains the methods; does anyone know where >> > one might find such a readme file? It might answer my other question... >> >> The quoted readme.txt file is currently found in the parent directory, >> which lists all other client APIs [1]. > > Thank you, this led me to http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Server_Protocol > which at least gave a list of methods and what they are expected to do. > >> > (2) if there's an error in my query and I catch the exception, the >> > message I get is about how many milliseconds the query took, not the >> > actual error. I can enclose my Perl script, but I'm wondering if others >> > have seen this? >> >> In Perl, the error message can be retrieved by enclosing the query >> with eval {...} and printing $@ if an error occurs. This is eg shown >> in Example.pl. If this does not help, you are invited to send us an >> example that demonstrates what goes wrong. > > Enclosed. When I run this the error I get is always: > Database 'rdf' was opened in 0.6 ms. > > If I use the commandline BsaeX program on the same query I get this > instead (for this same deliberately malformed query): > $ ~/packages/basex/BaseX7.3/bin/basexclient > Username: admin > Password: > BaseX 7.3 [Client] > Try help to get more information. > >> open rdf > Database 'rdf' was opened in 0.65 ms. >> run /home/liam/tmp/error.xq > Stopped at line 1, column 9 in /home/liam/tmp/error.xq: > [XPST0003] Unexpected end of query: 'with syntax err...'. >> > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml > Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", Wrox, 2012

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > Liam, > > the bug has been fixed [1]; feel free to check out the latest version [2]. > > Thanks for sharing this, > Christian > > [1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-api/commit/aaa17f4e408e4e86d0ff3a72a8261acfb0a0b3aa > [2] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-api/blob/master/src/main/perl/BaseXClient.pm > > ______________________________________________ > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam at w3.org> wrote: >> On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 18:30 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: >>> Hi Liam, >>> >>> > (1) The sample perl files and the perl module implementing the API >>> > mention a readme file that explains the methods; does anyone know where >>> > one might find such a readme file? It might answer my other question... >>> >>> The quoted readme.txt file is currently found in the parent directory, >>> which lists all other client APIs [1]. >> >> Thank you, this led me to http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Server_Protocol >> which at least gave a list of methods and what they are expected to do. >> >>> > (2) if there's an error in my query and I catch the exception, the >>> > message I get is about how many milliseconds the query took, not the >>> > actual error. I can enclose my Perl script, but I'm wondering if others >>> > have seen this? >>> >>> In Perl, the error message can be retrieved by enclosing the query >>> with eval {...} and printing $@ if an error occurs. This is eg shown >>> in Example.pl. If this does not help, you are invited to send us an >>> example that demonstrates what goes wrong. >> >> Enclosed. When I run this the error I get is always: >> Database 'rdf' was opened in 0.6 ms. >> >> If I use the commandline BsaeX program on the same query I get this >> instead (for this same deliberately malformed query): >> $ ~/packages/basex/BaseX7.3/bin/basexclient >> Username: admin >> Password: >> BaseX 7.3 [Client] >> Try help to get more information. >> >>> open rdf >> Database 'rdf' was opened in 0.65 ms. >>> run /home/liam/tmp/error.xq >> Stopped at line 1, column 9 in /home/liam/tmp/error.xq: >> [XPST0003] Unexpected end of query: 'with syntax err...'. >>> >> >> Liam >> >> -- >> Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ >> Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ >> Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml >> Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", Wrox, 2012

On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 23:11 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > Liam, > > the bug has been fixed [1]; feel free to check out the latest version [2].