The datafly Reference Manual

2.1 datafly

Lightweight database library.

Author

Eitaro Fukamachi

License

BSD 3-Clause

Long Description

# datafly

[](https://travis-ci.org/fukamachi/datafly)

Datafly is a lightweight database library for Common Lisp.

## Quickstart

Datafly provides 3 functions which wrap [CL-DBI](https://github.com/fukamachi/cl-dbi) — ‘retrieve-one‘, ‘retrieve-all‘ and ‘execute‘.

They take a [SxQL](https://github.com/fukamachi/sxql) statement.

“‘common-lisp
(use-package :sxql)

(connect-toplevel :sqlite3 :database-name #P"myapp.db")

(retrieve-one
(select :*
(from :user)
(where (:= :name "nitro_idiot"))))
;=> (:ID 1 :NAME "nitro_idiot" :EMAIL "nitro_idiot@example.com" :REGISTERED-AT "2014-04-14T19:20:13")

(retrieve-all
(select :*
(from :user)))
;=> ((:ID 1 :NAME "nitro_idiot" :EMAIL "nitro_idiot@example.com" :REGISTERED-AT "2014-04-14T19:20:13")
; (:ID 2 :NAME "m2ym" :EMAIL "m2ym@example.com" :REGISTERED-AT "2014-04-15T01:03:42"))

(execute
(insert-into :tweet
(set= :id 1
:user_id 1
:body "Hi."
:created_at (princ-to-string *now*))))
“‘

If you specify ‘:as‘ option with a class name to retrieval functions, they create instances of the class for each rows.

“‘common-lisp
(defstruct user
id
name
email
registered-at)

(retrieve-one
(select :*
(from :user)
(where (:= :name "nitro_idiot")))
:as ’user)
;=> #S(USER :ID 1 :NAME "nitro_idiot" :EMAIL "nitro_idiot@example.com" :REGISTERED-AT "2014-04-14T19:20:13")

(retrieve-all
(select :*
(from :user))
:as ’user)
;=> (#S(USER :ID 1 :NAME "nitro_idiot" :EMAIL "nitro_idiot@example.com" :REGISTERED-AT "2014-04-14T19:20:13")
; #S(USER :ID 2 :NAME "m2ym" :EMAIL "m2ym@example.com" :REGISTERED-AT "2014-04-15T01:03:42"))
“‘

The structure doesn’t require having slots same as an existing table’s in a database. It is acceptable even if the names are different. This might be convenient when you’d like to treat a JOINed table result as a structure object.

## Model Definitions

Datafly provides a macro ‘defmodel‘ which defines a flavored structure class.

“‘common-lisp
(defmodel (user (:inflate registered-at #’datetime-to-timestamp))
id
name
email
registered-at)

;; Same as the above.
(syntax:use-syntax :annot)

@model
(defstruct (user (:inflate registered-at #’datetime-to-timestamp))
id
name
email
registered-at)
“‘

‘(:inflate <columns> <inflation-function>)‘ options mean ‘inflation-function‘ will be applied to each ‘<columns>‘ when creating an instance.

“‘common-lisp
(defvar *user*
(retrieve-one
(select :*
(from :user)
(where (:= :name "nitro_idiot")))
:as ’user))

;; Returns a local-time:timestamp.
(user-registered-at *user*)
;=> @2014-04-15T04:20:13.000000+09:00
“‘

‘defmodel‘ also allows ‘:has-a‘ and ‘:has-many‘ options.

“‘common-lisp
(use-package :sxql)

(defmodel (user (:inflate registered-at #’datetime-to-timestamp)
(:has-a config (where (:= :user_id id)))
(:has-many (tweets tweet)
(select :*
(from :tweet)
(where (:= :user_id id))
(order-by (:desc :created_at)))))
id
name
email
registered-at)

(defvar *user*
(retrieve-one
(select :*
(from :user)
(where (:= :name "nitro_idiot")))
:as ’user))

(user-config *user*)
;=> #S(CONFIG :ID 4 :USER-ID 1 :TIMEZONE "JST" :COUNTRY "jp" :LANGUAGE "ja")

(user-tweets *user*)
;=> (#S(TWEET :ID 2 :USER-ID 1 :BODY "Is it working?" :CREATED-AT @2014-04-16T11:02:31.000000+09:00)
; #S(TWEET :ID 1 :USER-ID 1 :BODY "Hi." :CREATED-AT @2014-04-15T18:58:20.000000+09:00))
“‘

## Provided inflation functions

* ‘tinyint-to-boolean‘
* ‘datetime-to-timestamp‘
* ‘unixtime-to-timestamp‘
* ‘string-to-keyword‘
* ‘octet-vector-to-string‘

## Tips: Getting Association List or Hash Table for each rows

‘retrieve-one‘ and ‘retrieve-all‘ return row(s) as a property list or a list of property lists by default.

If you’d like they were other types, for example "Association List" or "Hash Table", you can do it by passing ‘:as‘ parameter.

“‘common-lisp
(retrieve-one
(select :*
(from :user)
(where (:= :name "nitro_idiot")))
:as ’trivial-types:association-list)
;=> ((:ID . 1) (:NAME . "nitro_idiot") (:EMAIL . "nitro_idiot@example.com") (:REGISTERED-AT . "2014-04-14T19:20:13"))

(retrieve-one
(select :*
(from :user)
(where (:= :name "nitro_idiot")))
:as ’hash-table)
;=> #<HASH-TABLE :TEST EQL :COUNT 4 {1007AE3CD3}>
“‘

If no ‘:as‘ parameter is specified, ‘*default-row-type*‘ will be used.

“‘common-lisp
(let ((*default-row-type* ’hash-table))
(retrieve-all
(select :*
(from :user))))
;=> (#<HASH-TABLE :TEST EQL :COUNT 4 {100815FA03}> #<HASH-TABLE :TEST EQL :COUNT 4 {100815FE43}>)
“‘

## See Also

* [SxQL](https://github.com/fukamachi/sxql)
* [CL-DBI](https://github.com/fukamachi/cl-dbi)
* [cl-annot](https://github.com/arielnetworks/cl-annot), [CL-SYNTAX](https://github.com/m2ym/cl-syntax)
* [function-cache](https://github.com/AccelerationNet/function-cache)

## Author

* Eitaro Fukamachi (e.arrows@gmail.com)

## Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014 Eitaro Fukamachi (e.arrows@gmail.com)

# License

Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.

Version

0.1

Dependencies

• iterate (system).
• optima (system).
• trivial-types (system).
• closer-mop (system).
• named-readtables (system).
• sxql (system).
• dbi (system).
• alexandria (system).
• babel (system).
• local-time (system).
• function-cache (system).
• jonathan (system).
• kebab (system).
• log4cl (system).

Source

datafly.asd.

Child Component

src (module).

3.1 datafly/src

Source

datafly.asd.

Parent Component

datafly (system).

Child Components

• datafly.lisp (file).
• model.lisp (file).
• db.lisp (file).
• cache.lisp (file).
• logger.lisp (file).
• inflate.lisp (file).
• json.lisp (file).
• syntax.lisp (file).
• util.lisp (file).

4.1 Lisp

• datafly/datafly.asd
• datafly/src/datafly.lisp
• datafly/src/model.lisp
• datafly/src/db.lisp
• datafly/src/cache.lisp
• datafly/src/logger.lisp
• datafly/src/inflate.lisp
• datafly/src/json.lisp
• datafly/src/syntax.lisp
• datafly/src/util.lisp

5.1 datafly.inflate

Source

inflate.lisp.

Use List

• common-lisp.
• datafly.syntax.

Public Interface

• datetime-to-timestamp (function).
• octet-vector-to-string (function).
• string-to-keyword (function).
• tinyint-to-boolean (function).
• unixtime-to-timestamp (function).

5.2 datafly.logger

Source

logger.lisp.

Use List

• common-lisp.
• datafly.syntax.

Public Interface

• *sql-logger* (special variable).
• *trace-sql* (special variable).

Internals

*sql-logger-pattern* (special variable).

5.3 datafly.json

Source

json.lisp.

Use List

• common-lisp.
• datafly.syntax.
• iterate.

Public Interface

• convert-object (generic function).
• encode-json (generic function).

Internals

• association-list-p (function).
• convert-for-json (function).
• object-to-plist (function).

5.4 datafly.syntax

Source

syntax.lisp.

Use List

common-lisp.

Used By List

• datafly.cache.
• datafly.db.
• datafly.inflate.
• datafly.json.
• datafly.logger.
• datafly.model.
• datafly.util.

Public Interface

enable-syntax (macro).

5.5 datafly.model

Source

model.lisp.

Use List

• common-lisp.
• datafly.syntax.
• iterate.
• optima.
• sxql.

Public Interface

• copy-model (function).
• defmodel (macro).
• model (macro).
• object-to-plist (function).

5.6 datafly

Source

datafly.lisp.

Use List

common-lisp.

5.7 datafly.util

Source

util.lisp.

Use List

• common-lisp.
• datafly.syntax.

Public Interface

• partition (function).
• partition-if (function).

5.8 datafly.db

Source

db.lisp.

Use List

• common-lisp.
• datafly.syntax.
• iterate.
• sxql.

Public Interface

• *connection* (special variable).
• *default-row-type* (special variable).
• connect-cached (function).
• connect-toplevel (function).
• database-type (function).
• disconnect-toplevel (function).
• execute (function).
• retrieve-all (function).
• retrieve-all-values (function).
• retrieve-one (function).
• retrieve-one-value (function).

Internals

• *connections* (special variable).
• connection-quote-character (function).
• convert-column-name (function).
• convert-column-value (function).
• convert-row (function).
• execute-with-connection (function).
• get-prev-stack (function).

5.9 datafly.cache

Source

cache.lisp.

Use List

• common-lisp.
• datafly.syntax.
• function-cache.
• iterate.

Public Interface

• clear-model-caches (function).
• clear-object-caches (function).
• defcached-accessor (macro).

Internals

• *model-accessors* (special variable).
• accessor-cache (function).

6.1 Public Interface

• Special variables
• Macros
• Ordinary functions
• Generic functions

6.2 Internals

• Special variables
• Ordinary functions