Wohoo!  That works great!

Thanks.  You’ve provided the missing link for me!

 

Have a great new year!

David

 

 

 

Hi David,

thanks a lot for your tests.
I couldnt fix the gui bug yet...but i can help you with command line...

There is a createfilter option...it can be set with:
set createfilter *

so all files in the folder are recognized for creating a database.

I hope this works for now,
Happy new year,
Andreas

Am 31.12.10 15:13, schrieb David leigh:

Andreas,

I just did an interesting test (using the version that the windows installer installs: 6.3.4).

 

I copied my directory tree of files and in the new copy, I gave all my data files an extension of “xml” (previously they had NO extension).  NOW, both with the command line and the GUI, the full database is created without any problem.  To double check, I went back to the old directory with no extensions and created a new database using a filter of “*.*” and only 14 documents were created in the database (instead of 5000+).

 

Conclusions:

In the command line you must have input documents with an extension of “xml” since there is no visible way to provide a filter.

The GUI interfaces differently than the command line with the basex core since it can receive a filter as well as a path in the database creation process

The GUI filter functionality in 6.3.4 is different than in 6.1…for me it is “broken” vs. how it works in 6.1

 

So, I think for my project to work completely, I need new functionality: a file name filter that works correctly on the CREATE DB statement in the command line interface.  Does this sound correct to you?

 

Unfortunately, I don’t have control over the extension names of my input files as they are created by another piece of software.   Until I can do a create database in the command line, I’ll have to do manual gui-based (6.1 version) refreshes of the data or some sort of long copy/rename process in the background.

 

Thanks!

David

 

 

 

Hi David,

the syntax of the create command changed between the releases of 6.1 and 6.3.4.

In release 6.1 you have to use:

create db C:\Users\David\Documents\OpenSong\songpacks\Songs songs

Kind regards,
Andreas

Am 28.12.10 18:00, schrieb David leigh:

Here are my command line results from 6.3.4:

 

C:\Users\David\Documents\OpenSong\OpenSongSearch\BaseX>java -cp BaseX.jar org.basex.BaseXClient -Uadmin -Padmin

BaseX 6.3.5 [Client]

Try "help" to get more information.

 

> drop db songs

Database 'songs' was dropped.

> create db song

Database 'song' created in 1683.61 ms.

> info index

Tags

- Structure: Hash

- Entries: 0

 

Attributes

- Structure: Hash

- Entries: 0

 

Text Index

- Structure: Binary tree

- Size: 4 Bytes

- Entries: 0

 

Attribute Index

- Structure: Binary tree

- Size: 4 Bytes

- Entries: 0

 

Full-Text Index

- Not available

Path Summary

doc() 1x

> info table

Stopped at line 1, column 10:

Syntax: INFO ([DATABASE|INDEX|STORAGE])

  Show information on current database.

 

Shows information on the currently opened database:

- no argument: show global information

- DATABASE: shows database information

- INDEX: shows index information

- STORAGE [start end] | [query]: show internal database table

> info storage

PRE  DIS  SIZ  ATS  NS  KIND  CONTENT

-------------------------------------

  0    1    1    1   0  DOC   song

> info

General Information

Database Path: C:\Users\David\Documents\OpenSong\OpenSongSearch\BaseX\data

Used Main Memory: 895 KB

 

Database Creation

Whitespace Chopping: ON

Entity Parsing: OFF

 

Indexes

Path Summary: ON

Text Index: ON

Attribute Index: ON

Full-Text Index: OFF

> 

So, for 6.3.4, it creates from the command line, but it’s empty.  The root of that path has NO files in it.  The 5861 files are in all the subdirectories.

 

Then, when I try the same syntax with 6.1, I get the following results:

 

> create db songs C:\Users\David\Documents\OpenSong\songpacks\Songs

Stopped at line 1, column 17:

Syntax: CREATE [DB|COLL|FS|INDEX|USER] [...]

  Create database, index or user.

 

Creates a new database, index or user:

- DB [path] [name?]:

  creates the database [name] for the file or directory [path]

- COLL [name]:

  creates an empty database [name]

- INDEX [TEXT|ATTRIBUTE|FULLTEXT|PATH]:

  creates the specified index

- FS [path] [name] ([mountpoint] [backingstore]):

  creates filesystem database [name] for [path]

  (using [mountpoint] and [backingstore] if FUSE is activated)

- USER [name] [password?]:

  creates the specified user

 

Summary:

6.1 GUI – works as I want it

6.1 command line – can’t get it to create

6.3.4 GUI – creates but with only 14 entries

6.3.4 command line – creates, but it’s empty

 

I don’t mind staying with 6.1, but I DO want to do everything with the command line.

 

Is the ADD syntax the same, in that I can simply specify the path and it will recurse the whole directory tree?

 

Thanks!!!

David

 

 

 

Additional question: That was in the GUI.  I’d like to do the same thing using the command line with the .JAR file, but somewhere my syntax is not right.  Additionally, all the XML files have NO EXTENSION so I don’t know how to specify that either in the command line.  So, any help in that area would also be appreciated.

Could you provide your syntax?

The syntax should be:
create db dbname path/to/folder

The missing extension shouldnt be a problem, i just tested it.

In the GUI in 6.1, I can create a database from a whole directory hierarchy of 5,681 individual XML files.  When I point to the same source file directory and using the 6.3.4 GUI (which I installed with a pre-release version of the installer), it only processes 14 files.  No error message (that I saw) was produced.  The behavior that I’m wanting is what 6.1 does.   Glad to help in solving the problem.

We will check for modifications between the releases. As quick workaround you could try to create an empty database and then add the documents with the Database/Add documents menu.

Kind regards,
Andreas

Am 28.12.10 12:55, schrieb David leigh:

I’ve just installed 6.3.4 and I’ve noticed a difference from version 6.1.

 

In the GUI in 6.1, I can create a database from a whole directory hierarchy of 5,681 individual XML files.  When I point to the same source file directory and using the 6.3.4 GUI (which I installed with a pre-release version of the installer), it only processes 14 files.  No error message (that I saw) was produced.  The behavior that I’m wanting is what 6.1 does.   Glad to help in solving the problem.

 

Additional question: That was in the GUI.  I’d like to do the same thing using the command line with the .JAR file, but somewhere my syntax is not right.  Additionally, all the XML files have NO EXTENSION so I don’t know how to specify that either in the command line.  So, any help in that area would also be appreciated.

 

Thank you,

David

 

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