Hi Luke,
That’s a classical recommendation for RESTXQ, which gives you a more
powerful and flexible framework for writing custom REST APIs. Did you
already have a look at it?
Best,
Christian
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:33 AM ERRINGTON Luke <luke.erring...@sydac.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> Thanks for that. That's exactly what I was hoping for (and I thought I tried
> that, but must have done something wrong).
>
> Now for the trickier part of the problem:
>
> Let's say that I want to add a file to the database, but I want to do it
> through a server-side XQuery, so that it can validate, etc. Can I do this
> using the context of the call, or do I have to pass the name of the database
> as an argument?
>
> e.g.
>
> db:add("Test", <a/>, "doc.xml") (: Works, but has hardcoded the database :)
>
> ==8<=========================
>
> let $db := request:parameter('param1')
> return
> db:add($db, <a/>, "doc.xml") (: Works, but had to pass the database name as a
> parameter :)
>
> ==8<=========================
>
> db:add(., <a/>, "doc.xml") (: Doesn't work, and I didn't expect it to, but
> would be ideal :)
>
> Is there any way to achieve this? There isn't anyway of converting the
> current context into an expression containing the database (and path) is
> there?
>
> Thanks,
> Luke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 January 2020 6:38 PM
> To: ERRINGTON Luke <luke.erring...@sydac.com>
> Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Server-side XQuery scripts understanding their
> "context"
>
> Hi Luke,
>
> > However, when I execute an XQuery I would like it to run on a particular
> > database. Is there anyway to achieve this without passing the database as
> > an argument to the query?
>
> If you address a database in your URL, it will be bound to the context of
> your query, which can be obtained via a simple dot (.). For example, run the
> following query to get the number of documents in your 'Test' database:
>
> http://localhost:8984/rest/Test?query=count(.)
>
> I have added another example in our documentation [1]. The given query can
> also be written to a file and evaluated with 'run'.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Christian
>
> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST#GET_Method
