external variables

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex <gerrit.imsieke at le-tex.de> wrote: > I'm trying to pass a parameter to an xquery file whose first line reads: > define variable $db as xs:string external > > How may I invoke the BaseX client so that the param will be passed to the > query? > > Just saw in the 6.5 change log "[ADD] JAX-RX: bind external variables to > query and run parameter". Does that mean that passing param is currently > only available in the JAX-RX interface? > > Maybe you can parse the command line client invocation such that everything > after the options and after a xquery file name is considered as param=value > pairs? > > -Gerrit > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Gerrit, > > currently, external variables are supported by our various language > bindings (listed at http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Languages) and JAX-RX, > but not on the command line. Your feature request looks quite > reasonable, though, so I'll probably add a -b option, similar to the > option -s for defining serialization parameters. A command line call > will look sth. like that: > > basex -bvar1=hello -bvar2=world query.xq > > Hope this helps, > Christian > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex > <gerrit.imsieke at le-tex.de> wrote: >> I'm trying to pass a parameter to an xquery file whose first line reads: >> define variable $db as xs:string external >> >> How may I invoke the BaseX client so that the param will be passed to the >> query? >> >> Just saw in the 6.5 change log "[ADD] JAX-RX: bind external variables to >> query and run parameter". Does that mean that passing param is currently >> only available in the JAX-RX interface? >> >> Maybe you can parse the command line client invocation such that everything >> after the options and after a xquery file name is considered as param=value >> pairs? >> >> -Gerrit >> _______________________________________________ >> BaseX-Talk mailing list >> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >> >

> Yesterday you sketched that multiple -b options > may be given if multiple params need to be passed. > Does your implementation > behave like that (multiple -b), or if just a single -b is permitted, how do > I separate multiple param/value pairs?

> On 24.01.2011 13:57, Christian Grün wrote: >> >> Gerrit, >> >> I've now added a -b flag to the command-line options of BaseX Client >> and Standalone. This way, external variables can be bound to queries, >> which are either referenced as file, or specified via the -c or -q >> flags. Two examples: >> >> basex -b a=1 query.xq >> basexclient -b a=1 -q "declare variable $a external; $a" >> >> By defauls, the passed on values will be treated as strings. If the >> query specifies a data type, the passed on value will be cast to that >> type. Note that the value to be bound may not contain equality signs, >> commas, semi-colons or (depending on the OS) other characters that may >> be interpreted the wrong way. In other words, the integrated solution >> doesn't support all values that could be bound to variables. Similar >> restrictions apply to the GET method of JAX-RX, though. >> >> Christian >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Christian Grün >> <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Dear Gerrit, >>> >>> currently, external variables are supported by our various language >>> bindings (listed at http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Languages) and JAX-RX, >>> but not on the command line. Your feature request looks quite >>> reasonable, though, so I'll probably add a -b option, similar to the >>> option -s for defining serialization parameters. A command line call >>> will look sth. like that: >>> >>> basex -bvar1=hello -bvar2=world query.xq >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> Christian >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex >>> <gerrit.imsieke at le-tex.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm trying to pass a parameter to an xquery file whose first line reads: >>>> define variable $db as xs:string external >>>> >>>> How may I invoke the BaseX client so that the param will be passed to >>>> the >>>> query? >>>> >>>> Just saw in the 6.5 change log "[ADD] JAX-RX: bind external variables to >>>> query and run parameter". Does that mean that passing param is currently >>>> only available in the JAX-RX interface? >>>> >>>> Maybe you can parse the command line client invocation such that >>>> everything >>>> after the options and after a xquery file name is considered as >>>> param=value >>>> pairs? >>>> >>>> -Gerrit >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> BaseX-Talk mailing list >>>> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >>>> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >>>> >>> > > -- > Gerrit Imsieke > Geschäftsführer / Managing Director > le-tex publishing services GmbH > Weissenfelser Str. 84, 04229 Leipzig, Germany > Phone +49 341 355356 110, Fax +49 341 355356 510 > gerrit.imsieke at le-tex.de, http://www.le-tex.de > > Registergericht / Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Leipzig > Registernummer / Registration Number: HRB 24930 > > Geschäftsführer: Gerrit Imsieke, Svea Jelonek, > Thomas Schmidt, Dr. Reinhard Vöckler >