An Elixir wrapper around esqlite. The main aim here is to provide convenient usage of SQLite databases.
With the 1.0 release, we made just a single breaking change. Sqlitex.Query.query
previously returned just the raw query results on success and {:error, reason}
on failure.
This has been bothering us for a while, so we changed it in 1.0 to return {:ok, results}
on success and {:error, reason}
on failure.
This should make it easier to pattern match on. The Sqlitex.Query.query!
function has kept its same functionality of returning bare results on success and raising an error on failure.
The simple way to use sqlitex
is just to open a database and run a query:
Sqlitex.with_db('test/fixtures/golfscores.sqlite3', fn(db) ->
Sqlitex.query(db, "SELECT * FROM players ORDER BY id LIMIT 1")
end)
# => [[id: 1, name: "Mikey", created_at: {{2012,10,14},{05,46,28}}, updated_at: {{2013,09,06},{22,29,36}}, type: nil]]
Sqlitex.with_db('test/fixtures/golfscores.sqlite3', fn(db) ->
Sqlitex.query(db, "SELECT * FROM players ORDER BY id LIMIT 1", into: %{})
end)
# => [%{id: 1, name: "Mikey", created_at: {{2012,10,14},{05,46,28}}, updated_at: {{2013,09,06},{22,29,36}}, type: nil}]
Pass the bind
option to bind parameterized queries.
Sqlitex.with_db('test/fixtures/golfscores.sqlite3', fn(db) ->
Sqlitex.query(
db,
"INSERT INTO players (name, created_at, updated_at) VALUES (?1, ?2, ?3, ?4)",
bind: ['Mikey', '2012-10-14 05:46:28.318107', '2013-09-06 22:29:36.610911']
)
end)
# => [[id: 1, name: "Mikey", created_at: {{2012,10,14},{05,46,28}}, updated_at: {{2013,09,06},{22,29,36}}, type: nil]]
If you want to keep the database open during the lifetime of your project, you can use the Sqlitex.Server
GenServer module.
Here's a sample from a phoenix projects main supervisor definition.
children = [
# Start the endpoint when the application starts
worker(Golf.Endpoint, []),
worker(Sqlitex.Server, ['golf.sqlite3', [name: Golf.DB]])
]
Now that the GenServer is running you can make queries via
Sqlitex.Server.query(Golf.DB,
"SELECT g.id, g.course_id, g.played_at, c.name AS course
FROM games AS g
INNER JOIN courses AS c ON g.course_id = c.id
ORDER BY g.played_at DESC LIMIT 10")
Check out the SQLite Ecto2 adapter