[basex-talk] db:replace and error bxerr:BXDB0007 (opened by another process)

Hello,

I’m currently writing a small RESTXQ application that receives POSTed XML and then stores it into the database.

It works well but I want to make it more robust so I’m adding more error handling code.

One scenario I want to cover is where the database to be written to exists but is open in another process for some reason.

In my function I do something like this:

try { db:replace(“DATABASE_NAME”,”PATH/TO/FILE”,<Element/>) } catch * { db:output(<insert code here>) }

I expect that this code should complete without error - knowing of course that the database won’t be updated.

Instead I always get a bxerr:BXDB0007 error thrown and I can’t find any way to catch it. (It’s also not listed as a possible error in the documentation, although is against db:create)

Is this something subtle to do with the pending updates list?

I’m sure I’m missing something obvious but I can’t see it.

Thank you for any help and direction,

James