Querying

[rmb938]

I need to be able to query for records similar to how you can in the java client. Can this please be added? Thanks

[wchu-citrusleaf]

This is definitely on our roadmap to add. Thanks.

[mingfai]

+1, and also scan api like Java. without a query mechanism, the NodeJS client is incomplete/not production ready, you'd better mark it as "alpha" or "preview release".

[mullanaphy]

It's not that simple, since node.js is single threaded. Personally what I ended up doing for a project was make a C process that I spawn in my node.js module and converse back and forth via stdin/out and it performs well (300m results in batches of 1000 results each, performs for us ~30k results a second).

[mingfai]

ic. so a technical challenge is NodeJS client uses C client, and it cannot easily sprawn new thread/process so operation that load a let of records will block the while NodeJS app. I think there are many uses of using NodeJS client that may tolerate the limitation, e.g.

• for admin or ad-hoc operation like data patching
• query for a very small set of data with index

the dev may consider to implement the query api, and give a strong warning on the limitation. And then address the process spawning issue and Scan API later.

[shimondoodkin]

+1 how do i do set scans?

[bbulkow]

A bunch of design discussions here at Aerospike Central, we think we've found the right implementation path to get various queries in soon. Thanks for the comment about reasonable limitations.

[shimondoodkin]

i guess it is possible to use the java driver in nodejs
like nodejs jdbc module works but it needs figuring out how to do it

simple working code:

//index.js
//npm init
//npm install java
//download latest jar with dependencies http://www.aerospike.com/download/client/java/

//help on java: https://github.com/joeferner/node-java

if(require.main === module) { var  repl = require("repl");repl.start({ useGlobal:true,  useColors:true, }); }
//some variables are without var to put them in global so it will be visible in repl

var java = require("java");
java.classpath.push("aerospike-client-3.0.28-jar-with-dependencies.jar");

var AerospikeClient = java.import('com.aerospike.client.AerospikeClient');
//var ClientPolicy = java.import('com.aerospike.client.policy.ClientPolicy');
//var WritePolicy = java.import('com.aerospike.client.policy.WritePolicy');
 Bin = java.import('com.aerospike.client.Bin');//global
 Key = java.import('com.aerospike.client.Key');//global
 Record = java.import('com.aerospike.client.Record');//global
 newBinsArray = function(arr){return java.newArray("com.aerospike.client.Bin", arr)}

/*
policy = new ClientPolicy();
        policy.user = params.user;
        policy.password = params.password;
        policy.failIfNotConnected = true;

var ArrayList = java.import('java.util.ArrayList');
var list = new ArrayList();
list.addSync('item1');
java.newInstanceSync("java.lang.Long", 5);

var client = new AerospikeClient(policy, "10.0.2.15", "3000");
*/

//writePolicy =new WritePolicy();//global

client = new AerospikeClient("127.0.0.1", 3000);//global 

var key = new Key("test", "demo", "putgetkey");
var bin1 = new Bin("bin1", "value1");
var bin2 = new Bin("bin2", "value2");

var binsArray = java.newArray("com.aerospike.client.Bin", [bin1, bin2]);
// Write a record
//client.putSync(writePolicy, key, binsArray);
client.putSync(null, key, binsArray);

// Read a record
var record = client.getSync(null, key);
if (record == null) {
 console.log('record not found');
}
else
{       
var received1 = record.getValueSync(bin1.name);
var received2 = record.getValueSync(bin2.name);
console.info("Bin matched: namespace=%s set=%s key=%s bina=%s valuea=%s binb=%s valueb=%s generation=%d expiration=%d", 
                key.namespace, key.setName, key.userKey, bin1.name, received1, bin2.name, received2, record.generation, record.expiration);
}

//client.closeSync();

//probably any operation that is over network or disk should be async here is an async version,
//just append callback to end with err and result as the return value.

//var  client = new AerospikeClient("127.0.0.1", 3000);

var key = new Key("test", "demo", "putgetkey");
var bin1 = new Bin("bin1", "value11");
var bin2 = new Bin("bin2", "value22");

// Write a record
//client.putSync(writePolicy, key, binsArray);
client.put(null, key, newBinsArray([bin1, bin2]), function(err,result){
     // Read a record
    client.get(null, key,function(err,record){
        if (record == null) {
            console.log('record not found');
        }
        else
        {       
            var received1 = record.getValueSync(bin1.name);
            var received2 = record.getValueSync(bin2.name);
            console.info("Bin matched: namespace=%s set=%s key=%s bina=%s valuea=%s binb=%s valueb=%s generation=%d expiration=%d", 
                            key.namespace, key.setName, key.userKey, bin1.name, received1, bin2.name, received2, record.generation, record.expiration);
        }
        //client.closeSync();
    });
});

[Daeik]

Will there be any updates on the node aerospike client soon? I checked that last updates on this repository is about 3~4 months ago. And I want to know that query and streaming UDF feature will be included.

[GayathriKaliyamoorthy]

Hi,
We have just released scan and query feature today. Please use the new API and give us your feedback.