Hi Folks,
Thanks for all the replies. I think I convinced the team to add it to a content (instead of modules) directory URI that can be partially deployed. That way I can simply access the content via doc($uri). J Tim From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Bryan Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 1:26 PM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to access XML config files from a modules database instead of content database? Hi Tim, Here's a simple example that may help. This will return the URI of the first XML file in the modules database: xdmp:invoke-function(function() { cts:uris()[fn:ends-with(., ".xml")][1] }, <options xmlns="xdmp:eval"> <database>{ xdmp:modules-database() }</database> </options>) You can replace the cts:uris() expression with fn:doc("/path/to/config/file.xml"), and that should suite your needs. However, this approach is a little verbose, so you may want to create a utility function that accepts a $uri. Or you could use the utility function that is shipped with the REST API: import module namespace dbut = "http://marklogic.com/rest-api/lib/db-util"; at "/MarkLogic/rest-api/lib/db-util.xqy"; dbut:access-config(function() { fn:doc( "/path/to/config/file.xml" ) }) Thanks. -jb From: David Lee <[email protected]> Reply-To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to access XML config files from a modules database instead of content database? If you implement the XML data *as* an XQuery module then you can simply call a method on that module to get them. If your 'outside' the application then an HTTP request will retrieve them (same as an HTML or CSS or JPG) That is possibly the distinction being suggested ... if the data is 'static' *in the perspective of the HTTP Client* then putting it in the Modules database is a good way to go. But if the data is 'static' from the perspective of the code running inside MarkLogic then I generally put it in either the documents database associated with the app, or its own database, or if its really a small amount of code-like configuration data then putting it into an XQuery module that exposes a simple getter method is quite easy and efficient. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:41 PM To: 'MarkLogic Developer Discussion' Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to access XML config files from a modules database instead of content database? Hi David, I suppose that is possible, but if the xml config files reside along with the xquery code in the modules database, I would expect a better way to access them similar to importing an xquery module. The idea was suggested to me because the config files are static to the xquery modules and should be deployed as such – in fact I could implement them as data stored in an xquery module. Tim From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Ennis Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 12:24 PM To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] How to access XML config files from a modules database instead of content database? HI. Not sure if this is what you mean - but you can access content from another database using things like xdmp:eval and the database option. Kind Regards, David Ennis Kind Regards, David Ennis David Ennis Content Engineer <http://www.hinttech.com/> HintTech Mastering the value of content creative | technology | content Delftechpark 37i 2628 XJ Delft The Netherlands T: +31 88 268 25 00 M: +31 63 091 72 80 <http://www.hinttech.com> http://www.hinttech.com <https://twitter.com/HintTech> <http://www.facebook.com/HintTech> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/HintTech> On 15 September 2014 18:15, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Folks, I'm wondering how to access XML configuration files from a modules database while the code is being executed in the context of a content database? Is there a specific import command that allows me to do this? Tim M. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
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