Comments on: JSQL: JavaScript Query Language

By: gongji

gongji — Mon, 03 May 2010 04:52:46 +0000

some thing similar to jSQL which is also named JSQL

By: Matt Hackett

Matt Hackett — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:13:03 +0000

@mc: I’m having a hard time understanding the question. This is more of a demo/prototype than a legitimate library. If you’re using jQuery in a real-world website, I’d recommend using that library alone :)

@quintin3265: I can’t tell if you’re kidding or not. Instead of a database, JSQL has a DOM. So injection is irrelevant …

Thanks for the comments!

By: quintin3265

quintin3265 — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:24:03 +0000

I agree that jQuery and its selectors are unintuitive. But while JSQL makes sense, it seems to me that the developer community is moving away from using SQL and more to object-oriented programming.

In jQuery, you would use .val() instead of SET value=, which is more in line with this object notation. I also wonder if your syntax is vulnerable to “JSQL injection.”

By: mc

mc — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:37:34 +0000

brilliant plan,

still feels like jquery is less equipped than actionscript in its 1.0 stage, this jsql will clearly make a massive difference.

how would I use this to get the values of input fields in a div into an object to use with json (and leave others outside of the div out of it -without- using the id to select them)?

-living an learning, maybe my expectation to the ease of use are too high, since I am now used to ActionScript 3.0-

thanks in advance for the explanation!
keep up the good work!

By: Ömer

Ömer — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:26:21 +0000

This is a good idea.

By: Matt Hackett

Matt Hackett — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:27:51 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! :)

@Mike: Absolutely jQuery will win any terse contests. ;) This is by no means meant to be a stand-alone library. For a whole suite of tools and XHR methods, I recommend YUI or jQuery. JSQL is just meant for some SQL-DOM fun.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:18:34 +0000

Hmm, as someone as uses jQuery and knows CSS very well, JSQL seems a bit verbose for oft-used scenarios like selecting a descendant group.

This example:

JSQL(”SELECT * FROM #jsql-example-4 WHERE nodeName = ‘EM’”).each(function() {
this.style.background = ‘#ffff00′;
});

Could be rewritten in jQuery as:

$(’#jsql-example-4 em’).css(’background’, ‘#ff0′);

No?

By: jSQL | Emiel Molenaar

jSQL | Emiel Molenaar — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:52:02 +0000

[...] Updates every checkbox in the container #jsql-example-1, setting each checkbox checked. This saves you some messing around with jQuery’s each() function. Very cool! Check it out here. [...]

By: E. Myller

E. Myller — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:22:36 +0000

This is really a good idea, and it’s nice to see something like this implemented. For now, I still see that CSS3 syntax based selections are simpler, but maybe we can find something where selecting elements by SQL queries looks better.
Well done.