If I remember correctly, it should be possible with the Python binding
[1] to pass on JSON data and specify 'json' as input type:
query.bind("$input", '{ 1: "abc" }', 'json')
Hope this helps,
Christian
[1]
https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/basex-api/src/main/python/QueryBindExample.py
On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 8:32 PM Graydon Saunders <graydon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Christian --
>
> Thank you!
>
> I have been finding that passing in a single XML config file and using
> xquery:eval() on the XPath-syntax maps therein has been working.
>
> (Locally, we use Python for scripting, so I am going to save the pattern but
> keep the config files for now. :)
>
> Much appreciated!
>
> -- Graydon
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 4:52 AM Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Graydon,
>>
>> I guess this question didn’t get any response so far:
>>
>> > How does one go about binding a literal map to an external variable? (I
>> > am going to want to do this in a script later; the GUI version is strictly
>> > for testing.)
>>
>> External variable bindings via the GUI are limited to atomic items. If
>> you use Java for scripting, you could proceed as follows:
>>
>> import org.basex.core.*;
>> import org.basex.query.*;
>> import org.basex.query.value.*;
>>
>> public class BindMap {
>> public static void main(String... whatever) throws Exception {
>> Context ctx = new Context();
>> String input = "map { 'structure': '/some/path/name' }";
>> Value map = new QueryProcessor(input, ctx).value();
>>
>> String query = "declare variable $map external; $map";
>> QueryProcessor qp = new QueryProcessor(query, ctx);
>> System.out.println(qp.bind("map", map).value());
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Christian
