Deprecated
Note that this uses scriptDB which has now been deprecated. I haven’t yet got round to changing the backend. Please check back later.
In using scriptDB as a noSQL database, I showed how to do queries on a scriptDB as if it were a REST API. Since these blister lists are just data in a scriptDB, we can use the exact same thing to get lists into other software such as web apps, Excel – anything that can deal with JSON in fact.
There is no change to the syntax described in scriptDB as a noSQL database. We can use it as is.
Here’s an example.
Prettification
Of course the example above is prettified, so we need to call the underlying, unprettifying script
If you need a callback just add &callback=yourfunction
The format of the query is simply some json – using query by example.
source=scriptdb (mandatory)
module=blister (mandatory)
library=blister(the name of the library)
query=some jSon
The query format then would be, {“package”:{“name”:”the name of the list”}}
results.package.items[] is the data, and results.package.keys[] are the list headers.
All comments, suggestions, assistance, good lists are welcome as I develop this capability. You can get me on Google plus, Twitter or this forum.