Hi Marc,

It runs fine on my environment. Could you give me some more
information on your set up (have you assigned any non-default
options)?

Christian


On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Marc van Grootel

<marc.van.grootel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> Seems to work fine with latest snapshot with some straightforward
> cases but I do get an error in some cases which I cannot understand.
> Though I appreciate that it may be difficult to support all types of
> dynamic calls.
>
> The error is: [bxerr:BXXQ0001] No updating expression allowed.
>
> I am not using updating expressions. I also tried this in my little
> test project and it runs against the same error. I haven't been able
> to pinpoint it yet as it happens deep in the bowels of the code. When
> I'm able to I will let you know.
>
> You can use a simple/small set of unit tests to verify [1]. I've
> %unit:ignored the last test that causes the error above.
>
> Cheers,
> --Marc
>
> [1] https://github.com/xokomola/origami-examples/blob/master/check/test-eval.xqm
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Christian Grün
> <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> This was a deliberate restriction: As maps and arrays are function
>> items, and as they can contain references to other functions that have
>> been declared in the evaluated query, it is generally tricky to
>> evaluate and return them dynamically.
>>
>> However, I spent some more thoughts on the underlying semantics, and I
>> may have found a solution that overcomes some of the earlier
>> limitations.
>>
>> A new snapshot is available [1], which now allows you to return
>> function items (incl. maps and arrays) as result of xquery:eval. Your
>> testing feedback will be welcome.
>>
>> Christian
>>
>> [1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Marc van Grootel
>> <marc.van.grootel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to return a map or an array from xquery:eval. Seems this is
>>> not possible, yet the signature says it returns item()*
>>>
>>>     xquery:eval('1 + 1') => 2
>>>     xquery:eval('[1,2]') => ERROR: [FOTY0014] Items of type array(*)
>>> have no string representation.
>>>     xquery:eval('map { "x": 10 }') => ERROR: [FOTY0014] Items of type
>>> map(*) have no string representation.
>>>
>>> BTW: I saw that xquery:eval#3 is documented as returning item() while
>>> the other arities return item()*
>>>
>>> Tested on 8.3, haven't tested yet on 8.4beta but it's trivial to repro I figure.
>>>
>>> --
>>> --Marc
>
>
>
> --
> --Marc