The context() method has been added. Moreover, I have added new bind() and context() function signatures to the client APIs with an additional "type" argument.
Looking forward to your first tests, Christian PS: the "latest snapshots" are currently uploaded; it usually takes around 5 minutes until all files have been updated. ___________________________ On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Context.current() accepts only Nodes, which are database-backed; >> QueryProcessor.context(), by contrast, can accept the ItemCache returned by >> a query which doesn't return a database reference. >> >> As such -- it seems to me that what is needed is an extension to the query >> command protocol (as implemented by ClientListener.query()), since a >> QueryProcessor is available when query commands are being handled but not >> otherwise. > > Helpful ideas. I thought about sth. similar, which is why I'll now add > a new CONTEXT command with a value (using code \14) and optional type > as arguments. > > >> It might also be worthwhile to have an additional query command to the >> effect of "execute query with id1, bind result to query id2", as follows: > > While I clearly see the advantages of that approach, I'm a little bit > hesitant to introduce this feature too quickly, as I think this will > introduce a number of open issues (some of the queries may be > updating; it may be generally desirable to introduce the concept of > transactions in order to perform multiple commands and queries with no > other processes interfering; etc.). > > >> My goal here, by the way, is to have feature-parity between the REST API and >> the server protocol -- the REST API allows the context item to be set when >> running an arbitrary, unmodified query; the server protocol, at present, >> does not. > > Yes, that's absolutely sensible. Your feedback is welcome, > Christian _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
