komsit37/chrome-devtools-q

Interacts with kdb/q from chrome using kdb http interface. Useful for quick kdb query

#Chrome Extension for kdb/q REPL

Interacts with kdb/q from chrome using kdb http interface. Useful for quick kdb query

##Installation

1. Clone this repo
2. Open Chrome extensions page chrome://extensions
3. Load unpacked extension using Developer mode from src folder. You should see something similar to the image below (Make sure to check Developer mode checkbox!)

##Usage

1. Go to kdb web url i.e. http://localhost:5555/
2. Bring up chrome developer tools
3. select q tab
4. write your q scripts and

• Command+Enter to run the current line
• Command+e to run the current selection
• Command+Shift+Enter to run the whole script

scripts are saved to chrome local key-value storage (using name text field as key)

• Command+s to save
• Command+l to load
• Command+d to delete

(Replace Command by Ctrl for above shortcuts if windows)

##Note

• q statement sent via REPL will be wrapped in closure (immediately executed function) to avoid polluting global namespace. This is essentially important when querying rdb.
• If you need to define function, define it in its own namespace (i.e. .my.f:{x+1})
• If you need to define variable, use :: (i.e. e::{x+1})
• Because of this, don't use x or y since it's a reserved argument names in q
• You can change this behavior, or add your custom wrapper by changing Template {%0}[] where %0 is the code you sent from editor. Template will be saved with script.

##Todo

• export saved scripts