Hi Christian, Yes, I think so. I think MIXUPDATES=true could be the difference. I almost forgot about these as I always run basex from a Gradle script which sets these [1]
[1] https://github.com/theapsgroup/basex-gradle-starter/blob/master/gradle.properties -----Original Message----- From: basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-boun...@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] On Behalf Of Christian Grün Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 11:32 AM To: Marc van Grootel <marc.van.groo...@gmail.com> Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] xquery:eval bug? Hi Marc, It runs fine on my environment. Could you give me some more information on your set up (have you assigned any non-default options)? Christian On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Marc van Grootel <marc.van.groo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Christian, > > Seems to work fine with latest snapshot with some straightforward > cases but I do get an error in some cases which I cannot understand. > Though I appreciate that it may be difficult to support all types of > dynamic calls. > > The error is: [bxerr:BXXQ0001] No updating expression allowed. > > I am not using updating expressions. I also tried this in my little > test project and it runs against the same error. I haven't been able > to pinpoint it yet as it happens deep in the bowels of the code. When > I'm able to I will let you know. > > You can use a simple/small set of unit tests to verify [1]. I've > %unit:ignored the last test that causes the error above. > > Cheers, > --Marc > > [1] > https://github.com/xokomola/origami-examples/blob/master/check/test-ev > al.xqm > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Christian Grün > <christian.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Marc, >> >> This was a deliberate restriction: As maps and arrays are function >> items, and as they can contain references to other functions that >> have been declared in the evaluated query, it is generally tricky to >> evaluate and return them dynamically. >> >> However, I spent some more thoughts on the underlying semantics, and >> I may have found a solution that overcomes some of the earlier >> limitations. >> >> A new snapshot is available [1], which now allows you to return >> function items (incl. maps and arrays) as result of xquery:eval. Your >> testing feedback will be welcome. >> >> Christian >> >> [1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Marc van Grootel >> <marc.van.groo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to return a map or an array from xquery:eval. Seems this >>> is not possible, yet the signature says it returns item()* >>> >>> xquery:eval('1 + 1') => 2 >>> xquery:eval('[1,2]') => ERROR: [FOTY0014] Items of type array(*) >>> have no string representation. >>> xquery:eval('map { "x": 10 }') => ERROR: [FOTY0014] Items of >>> type >>> map(*) have no string representation. >>> >>> BTW: I saw that xquery:eval#3 is documented as returning item() >>> while the other arities return item()* >>> >>> Tested on 8.3, haven't tested yet on 8.4beta but it's trivial to repro I >>> figure. >>> >>> -- >>> --Marc > > > > -- > --Marc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. 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