QuasarRestClient

Wrap the Quasar RESTful API to drop into Ruby applications.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'quasar_rest_client'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install quasar_rest_client

Usage

Configuration

Endpoint

Stores the endpoint of the Quasar service:

QuasarRestClient.config.endpoint = 'http://example.com'

Logger

Stores an optional logger object implementing the Logger interface.

require 'logger'
QuasarRestClient.config.logger = Logger.new($stderr)

Alternate configuration style

You can also perform the configuration in block-style

require 'logger'
QuasarRestClient.configure do |config|
  config.endpoint = 'http://example.com'
  config.logger = Logger.new($stderr)
end

Queries

Simple Query

REQUEST

QuasarRestClient.simple_query(query, options)

• Calls your quasar instance with a simple query as described in http://quasar-analytics.org/docs/restapi/#small-query

• query [String] -- contains the SQL^2 query string, for example:

  SELECT * from `/sample/data/SampleJSON` WHERE state="WA"
  

Note that the documentation is wrong about quoting. The source name (and other database names) should be backticked (like in Postgresql) and strings need to be surrounded with double quotes, not single quotes.

• options [Hash] -- a hash object with the following key:

  • limit [Numeric Value] -- number of records to retrieve in this query
  • offset [Numeric Value] -- record to start retreival at (zero-based)
  • var [Hash] -- a hash of key-value pairs where the key corresponds to a variable name used in the query string.

RESPONSE

The call responds with a JSON object with the result of the query, which could either be data or an error.

Exceptions

There are no exceptions raised explicitly in the library, but underlying libraries may raise them, and as this is a networked utility, one could get errors because of the inherent instability of the network.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/riverock/quasar_rest_client.

This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.