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  • Research: syntactic sugar for using --get with SQL queries, maybe "datasette query" · 9 ✖

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1017016553 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-1017016553 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 IC_kwDOBm6k_c48nnDp simonw 9599 2022-01-20T01:06:37Z 2022-01-20T01:06:37Z OWNER

A problem with this is that if you're using --query you likely want ALL of the results - at the moment the only Datasette output type that can stream everything is .csv and plugin formats can't handle full streams, see #1062 and #1177.

I figured out a neat pattern for streaming JSON arrays in this TIL: https://til.simonwillison.net/python/output-json-array-streaming

 
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 Research: syntactic sugar for using --get with SQL queries, maybe "datasette query" 910092577  
855282466 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-855282466 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1NTI4MjQ2Ng== simonw 9599 2021-06-05T19:05:06Z 2021-06-05T19:05:06Z OWNER

Yeah that's a good point. I avoided making them sub-commands because datasette serve already supports the multitude of other arguments they also need... but actually that was just me being lazy - I can easily share arguments between multiple functions like I do in sqlite-utils itself: https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/d1a372b3006e6cf7d2017b3ddc484bf5c033e45d/sqlite_utils/cli.py#L46

 
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853566337 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-853566337 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MzU2NjMzNw== simonw 9599 2021-06-03T05:08:32Z 2021-06-03T05:08:32Z OWNER

Also relevant: CSV streaming for canned queries in #526 - even better if we could stream ANY SQL query.

 
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853565850 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-853565850 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MzU2NTg1MA== simonw 9599 2021-06-03T05:07:21Z 2021-06-03T05:07:21Z OWNER

A problem with this is that if you're using --query you likely want ALL of the results - at the moment the only Datasette output type that can stream everything is .csv and plugin formats can't handle full streams, see #1062 and #1177.

So there's not much point implementing this unless we first make plugins able to add custom streaming formats.

 
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853562891 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-853562891 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MzU2Mjg5MQ== simonw 9599 2021-06-03T04:59:40Z 2021-06-03T04:59:40Z OWNER

It's weird that --get is documented on this page right now: https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/getting_started.html#datasette-get

If I implement this I should build a new "Datasette on the command-line" documentation page to cover both --get and --query.

 
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853560870 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-853560870 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MzU2MDg3MA== simonw 9599 2021-06-03T04:53:47Z 2021-06-03T04:53:56Z OWNER

This is also interesting when used in conjunction with the proposed datasette insert command from #1163 - Datasette would become a plugin-driven CLI tool for both ingesting and outputting data, as a side-effect of its web features.

 
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853560389 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-853560389 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MzU2MDM4OQ== simonw 9599 2021-06-03T04:52:13Z 2021-06-03T04:52:13Z OWNER

I should implement #1355 for more efficient --csv streaming as part of this.

 
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 Research: syntactic sugar for using --get with SQL queries, maybe "datasette query" 910092577  
853560237 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-853560237 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MzU2MDIzNw== simonw 9599 2021-06-03T04:51:49Z 2021-06-03T04:51:49Z OWNER

This feels like a relatively simple feature to implement that unlocks a whole new set of possible uses for Datasette - as described by @eyeseast in https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/264#issue-907642546.

 
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 Research: syntactic sugar for using --get with SQL queries, maybe "datasette query" 910092577  
853559915 https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1356#issuecomment-853559915 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1356 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDg1MzU1OTkxNQ== simonw 9599 2021-06-03T04:50:52Z 2021-06-03T04:50:52Z OWNER

What happens if you pass multiple databases? The --query would be executed against the first one. And if you pass --crossdb it would be executed against the /_memory database and would support cross-database joins.

Key thing here is that output plugins are supported (also plugins that add new SQL functions), making many Datasette plugins usable from the command-line.

 
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