Hi Christian,
Unfortunately I haven't used the RESTXQ yet, so I'm mostly talking about arbitary XQuery projects that can be executed using the java API for example. I've made an ant script that takes all XQuery in an envelope (each one has its own namespace) and bundles them into a single XQuery file, but I had some issues with it, mostly because ant is not very easy to use.
But in any case it would be helpful if somehow this can be done within BaseX, like a step before compiling, so it will only bundle files that are importing each other, and not everything in an envelope, then give an option to export that bundle.
George
On 06/02/2017 01:20 PM, Christian Grün wrote:
Hi George,
Bundling modules into a single file would surely be helpful. For example, I would like to distribute the DBA as zipped file in future. Currently, there is no such solution available, mostly because we did not have time to think about all conceptual details. Suggestions are welcome. Do you mostly think about RESTXQ applications, files in repositories, or arbitrary XQuery projects that should also be runnable outside the web context?
Christian
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:13 PM, George Sofianos gsf.greece@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, and thanks for your awesome engine again!
I wonder if there is an easy and complete way of combining xquery files into a single file. To give an example, I have about 16-17 xquery files, some are only 50-100 lines but some can be up to 1500 lines.
Because of multiple reasons, (legacy web application behaviour that makes it hard to deploy updates, network file system that doesn't always work), it is preferable to have one single file to execute on the XQuery engine. I know it can be done with ant for example, but it's not very easy to cover all cases, so maybe someone has a better idea :) I don't mind implementing something in a different language, as long as I know it will be doable.
Thanks,
George