Name
ubquery – a JSON front end for ubdump
Synopsis
ubquery <JSON>
Description
ubquery accepts a single argument that is a JSON object and parses it to get flags for ubdump.
This is a read-only utility and cannot be used to modify a table.
It’s main use is to make it easy to extract data from Unibase from within a Javascript frontend application.
eg
unibase.dataCGI ({"PROC_NAME": "ubquery", "ARG": {"table": "customer", "key": "name", "match": "Zenucom Pty Ltd", "attribute": "[website]"}, (data) => { ...do something ...}}
It can of course be called from any script and is well suited to use with node.js
The JSON format is {“table”: “…”, “key”: “…”, “match”: “…”, “attribute”: “…”}
table is required, the others are optional.
If you do not give the attribute, ubdump returns a simple dump of record(s). If you give the attribute, ubdump uses the attribute value as the format for the ‘-a’ flag.
