Hi Bridger, hi Jonathan,

When using the graphical user interface, you can learn more about commands by

a) enabling the Info View panel
b) performing a GUI operation, such as adding a directory with
specific options, and
c) checking the contents of the Info View.

Here’s a .bxs solution for adding TSV files:

SET CREATEFILTER *.tsv
SET PARSER tsv
SET CSVPARSER header=true,separator=tab
CREATE DB test
ADD csv-dir

As usual, CREATE and ADD can be combined whenever appropriate:

CREATE DB test tsv-dir

Hope this helps,
Christian


On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 7:54 PM Bridger Dyson-Smith
<bdysonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jonathan -
> apologies for misreading your email! I'm not well-versed in the .bxs COMMAND syntax, but maybe this is closer?
> I couldn't quite get a handle on using the EXECUTE syntax for this, but I'm under-caffeinated :)
>
> Another piece of uncertainty: can you pass variables from the .bxs to a script you are RUNning? Maybe Christian can help us both understand some things!
>
> Best,
> Bridger
>
> test-tsv.bxs
> ```
> CREATE DB test-tsv
> RUN /home/bridger/test-tsv.xq
> LIST test-tsv
> ```
> test-tsv.xq
> ```
> for $T in file:children("/home/bridger/tsvs/")
> let $TSV := csv:doc($T, map { "format": "direct", "separator": "tab", "header": true() })
> let $TSV-NAME := file:name($T)
> return db:add("test-tsv", $TSV, "/" || $TSV-NAME)
> ```
> note: you could specify a db path here; e.g. db:add("test-tsv", $TSV, "/tsv-files/" || $TSV-NAME)
>
> I've attached my two sample TSV files if that helps.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:45 AM Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks!  I was getting hung up trying to do this in a command.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:44 AM Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 10:33 AM Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>>
>>>> for $T in file:list($path-to-your-files)
>>>> let $TSV := csv:parse($T, map { 'separator': 'tab', 'header': true(), 'format': 'direct' })
>>>> return db:add($your-db, $TSV)
>>>>
>>>> maybe? I'm probably getting something wrong, semantics-wise, w/ `db:add()`, but maybe it's close to get started?
>>>> Best,
>>>> Bridger
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 9:31 AM Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a command file that configures a database, throwing a bunch of sources into various paths.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a set of TSV files. I want to do the equivalent of ADD TO, pointing to a directory of TSV files, so that they are parsed and converted to XML and placed in the appropriate path.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I do that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jonathan