Re: [basex-talk] can restxq add a document to the db and return an http response?

You need to additionally wrap your constructed element into a document node:

let $new-doc:= document { <root> <tag> <form-data>{ $form-input }</form-data> </tag> </root> }

Hope this helps, Christian ___________________________

Hi Christian,

I am getting this error with the below code

[FOUP0001] Document expected, <root>...</root> found.

Is this a problem with the way $new-doc is declared?

Thanks, Colin

module namespace page = 'http://basex.org/modules/web-page';

declare %updating %restxq:path("form/") %restxq:POST %restxq:form-param("content","{$form-input}", "'no message delivered'") function page:add-doc($form-input as xs:string) {

let $new-doc:= <root> <tag> <form-data>{ $form-input }</form-data> </tag> </root>

  return (
    db:add("test_db", $new-doc, "test.xml"),
    db:output("database was updated.")
  )
};

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Colin McEnearney colinmcenearney@gmail.com wrote:

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That's great - thanks!

I was looking here for list of all annotations:

http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ

But now I see these - %public, %private, or %updating - on this page too:

http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0#Annotations

Are there any other annotations recognized by basex?

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi Colin,

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Is it possible with restxq to add a document to a db? And if so, to also return an http response?

sure; you need to mark your function as updating, and the db:output() function will allow you to return data. Your updated example is shown below.

Hope this helps, Christian ___________________________________

module namespace page = 'http://basex.org/modules/web-page';

declare %updating %restxq:path("form/") %restxq:POST %restxq:form-param("content","{$form-input}", "'no message delivered'") function page:add-doc($form-input as xs:string) {

let $new-doc:=

<root> <tag> <form-data>{ $form-input }</form-data> </tag> </root>

return ( db:add("test_db", $new-doc, "test.xml"), db:output("database was updated.") ) };