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BaseX hanging on REST/XQ pipelining
by Erik Peterson 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

It seems like on some RESTXQ/REST pipelining (restxq calling another restxq api) causes basex to hang. In this scenario a mock client was created to test the system. A test was written to automate mock client requests. A restxq path was created run tests. More specifically... 1) Browse to http://localhost:8984/unit-test/test where last parameter "test" maps the directiory where unit tests are located. 2) #1 is handled by a RESTXQ function where a REST URL is fetched: fetch(http://localhost:8984/rest?command=test+../webapp/mock-client/test) 3) #2 is handled by a unit-test that fetches a mock-client URL fetch(http://localhost:8984/mock-client/do-something) 4) #3 is handled by a the mock-client hitting the system fetch(http://localhost:8984/system/do-something) - #3 and #4 (mock-client) work great - #2 (the unit-test) work great when running tests from command line OR when the test is a simple unit:assert(<canary/>). But basex hangs otherwise Thanks for any insight on why the system calling back to itself may cause a system hang.

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suddenly...java function x is unknown
by Erik Peterson 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

I've been integrating basex with 3rd party java jar files by dropping them in the basex/lib directory. This has worked fine until today when I now git "java function x is unknown". I've... - re-pulled everything from our repo to make sure all binaries are as they were when working - restarted osx - updated java - using BaseX VERSION 8.6.1 (February 24, 2017) It's working on other dev machines but not mine. Why would BaseX stop loading the classes from the lib jar files? Is there a better way I should be deploying jars? Thanks.

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Performance: associating one with many, or many with one?
by Jay Straw 29 Mar '17

29 Mar '17

Hi List! I'm building an application in base-x that's sort of like a local music wiki: bands, members, venues, promoters, and albums and songs are some of what I'm representing in XML. And what I'm wondering is that, in a situation where there's one of something (a musician), and a bunch of something else they're associated with (song writting or performance credits), which node should get the reference? The numerous node gets the reference back to the one: <album name="We Might Rock You" by="The Quesadillas"> <track number="1" name="Hot Cross Buns" written-by="Joe Schmoe" /> <track number="2" name="Bicycle" written-by="Joe Schmoe" /> </album> [ etc ] Or the one refers to the many: <person name="Joe Schmoe"> <songs-written> <song name="Hot Cross Buns" /> <song name="Bicycle" /> </songs-written> </person> Example 1, I could use something like: track[@written-by="Joe Schmoe"] Example 2: person[@name="Joe Schmoe"]/songs-written/song My other thought was putting the references in both, but I'll have to do this with many types of objects I'm representing and I don't want things to get out of control (then again, if I go to export an <album/> or <band/> and I'm using the second method, I'll have to do a join) I have a feeling in a large set, the second way wins out. Even where I live, with only around 750,000 people in our entire state (Alaska), we have easily 100 - 200 acts, including bands, solo performers, traditional acts, etc, with thousands of individuals that compose them. But I want bands that are extinct, bands that are on hiatus, etc, and I hope my software is useful to others in larger cities as well. So, maybe a pointless question because my db will be so tiny compared to some folks who post on here, but just curious :-) Also, if this problem has a name I can research myself, that'd be great! Be well, Jay Straw

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Basex Docker Container: How to Control Options
by Eliot Kimber 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

I’m trying to set up a Docker container with my own Web app using the latest official containers as a base and following the instructions in the latest BaseX docs. As part of this setup I need to add several additional options. I also want to include the dba app. Following the instructions in the docs I’m putting my additional options in /srv/.basex and these take effect. However, if I use the basex/dba image as a base, the other options, such as the custom REPOPATH and WEBPATH settings do not get used. It’s not clear to me from looking at the various Dockerfiles how the dba container sets the options and how I can then add to them without overwriting them. Of course I can duplicate the options in my Dockerfile but it seems like I should be able to add my options additively but I’m not seeing how to do it, so I feel I’m missing something. In my Dockerfile I have: COPY basex/dot_basex /srv/.basex If I don’t include this line then the container otherwise works in that my Web app is there but it requires these additional options in order to function properly. If I include it then the effective options reflect only my changes and not those required for the custom Web apps to work. Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com

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Possible to Access Environment Variables from XQuery?
by Eliot Kimber 25 Mar '17

25 Mar '17

I’m running BaseX in a Docker container started via docker-compose. I need to communicate some local configuration details to BaseX. Can set these as environment variables (e.g., using .env with docker-compose) but I don’t see anything in the docs that would let me access environment variables from XQuery. Is there a built-in way to do this? Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com

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and operator in Multiple Predicates
by Tushar Deshmukh 23 Mar '17

23 Mar '17

Namaste , and operator in predicates seems tobe not working. my xquery is as below and xml is attached herewith. declare namespace UDF="TallyUDF"; let $fromdate:=20170228 let $todate:=20170228 let $pledger_code:=57 let $pledger_status:="P" for $allitems in db:open('10096',"Vouchers")/ENVELOPE/Voucher[./Date/text() >= $fromdate and ./Date/text() <= $todate and ./AllLedgerEntries.LIST/UDF:AsPerListAllocations.LIST/UDF:ColPartyCode.LIST/UDF:ColPartyCode/text()= $pledger_code and ./AllLedgerEntries.LIST/UDF:AsPerListAllocations.LIST/UDF:MaheshCIFlag.LIST/UDF:MaheshCIFlag/text()= $pledger_status] return $allitems/MasterId Expected 2 records/nodes instead 4. Tushar Deshmukh,

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Calling the sort function with two arguments
by Martin Honnen 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

According to https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#func-sort the sort function allows one or two or three arguments, however when doing sort((5, 3, 4, 1), default-collation()) in BaseX 8.6.2 I get an error java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 2 at org.basex.query.func.fn.FnSort.iter(FnSort.java:34) at org.basex.query.QueryContext.iter(QueryContext.java:394) at org.basex.query.scope.MainModule.iter(MainModule.java:117) at org.basex.query.QueryContext.iter(QueryContext.java:330) at org.basex.query.QueryContext.cache(QueryContext.java:609) at org.basex.query.QueryProcessor.cache(QueryProcessor.java:113) at org.basex.core.cmd.AQuery.query(AQuery.java:86) at org.basex.core.cmd.XQuery.run(XQuery.java:22) at org.basex.core.Command.run(Command.java:257) at org.basex.core.Command.execute(Command.java:93) at org.basex.gui.GUI.exec(GUI.java:471) at org.basex.gui.GUI.access$300(GUI.java:44) at org.basex.gui.GUI$6.run(GUI.java:413) A similar error occurs with sort((5, 3, 4, 1), ()) Is BaseX 8.6.2 not yet in line with the freshly published spec? Regards, Martin Honnen

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BaseX Client for Erlang
by Christian Grün 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Dear all, Zachary Dean has written an Erlang client binding for BaseX: https://github.com/zadean/basexerl Thanks, Zachary! I have just added the Erlang binding to our Wiki [1]. As a result, we now have 18 different client bindings for BaseX. All the best everyone, Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Clients

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Multipart form-data submissions from RESTXQ
by Tim Thompson 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Hello, I have been agonizing over a problem with a service I'm trying to call from RESTXQ. The service (www.tei-c.org/oxgarage/) only accepts multipart/form-data submissions. It provides a front-end client for uploading files from the browser, which calls a back-end RESTful service to do document conversion. I've installed a local instance of the service ( https://github.com/TEIC/oxgarage) and have it running on Tomcat 7, along with BaseX. The problem arises when I try to submit documents with non-ASCII characters from RESTXQ. Looking at the network traffic, I can see that if the document contains only ASCII characters, the multipart submission body is not base64 encoded. For example: Encapsulated multipart part: (text/xml) Content-Disposition: form-data; name='fileToConvert'; filename='homework.xml'\r\n Content-Type: text/xml\r\n\r\n eXtensible Markup Language <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta/> <title> Test </title> </head> <body> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <msub> <mi/> <mn> 2 </mn> </msub> </math> </body> </html> However, if the document does contain non-ASCII characters (such as β), BaseX sets the Content-Transfer-Encoding to "base64." This causes the OxGarage service to fail because it thinks it is receiving an image file rather than a textual document. For example: Content-Type: text/xml\r\n Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\r\n\r\n eXtensible Markup Language [truncated] PGh0bWwgeG1sbnM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzE5OTkveGh0bWwiPjxoZWFkPjxtZXRhLz48\r\ndGl0bGU+VGVzdDwvdGl0bGU+PC9oZWFkPjxib2R5PjxtYXRoIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3Lncz\r\nLm9yZy8xOTk4L01hdGgvTWF0aE1MIj48bXN1Yj48bWk+zrI8L21pPjxtbj5Ud288L21 Attached here is a basic test case to replicate the problem: an HTML page with a form and the RESTXQ function that it calls. I've tried setting a new header to specify Content-Transfer-Encoding as "binary" instead of "base64," but it doesn't replace the default header. Is there any way that the encoding could be controlled from RESTXQ? Thanks in advance! Tim -- Tim A. Thompson Metadata Librarian (Spanish/Portuguese Specialty) Princeton University Library www.linkedin.com/in/timathompson tat2(a)princeton.edu

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Index on specific node
by Tushar Deshmukh 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Namaste All, Can we index the database only on one/few specific node. I am not able to find out the help or might be putting different text for search. Thanks Tushar Deshmukh

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