squel - SQL query string builder for Javascript

A simple, well tested SQL query string builder for Javascript.

Features

• Works in node.js and in the browser.
• Supports the construction of all standard SQL queries: SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE.
• Uses method chaining for ease of use.
• Well tested (~200 tests).
• Small: ~3 KB when minified and gzipped.

Installation

node.js

Install using npm:

$ npm install squel

Browser

Add the following inside your HTML:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://github.com/hiddentao/squel/raw/master/squel.min.js"></script>

Examples

Before running the examples ensure you have squel installed and enabled at the top of your script:

var squel = require("squel");

SELECT

// SELECT * FROM table
squel.select()
    .from("table")
    .toString()

// SELECT t1.id, t1.name as "My name", t1.started as "Date" FROM table `t1` ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 20
squel.select()
    .from("table", "t1")
    .field("t1.id")
    .field("t1.name", "My name")
    .field("t1.started", "Date")
    .order("id")
    .limit(20)
    .toString()

// SELECT t1.id, t2.name FROM table `t1` LEFT JOIN table2 `t2` ON (t1.id = t2.id) WHERE (t2.name <> 'Mark') AND (t2.name <> 'John') GROUP BY t1.id
squel.select()
    .from("table", "t1")
    .field("t1.id")
    .field("t2.name")
    .left_join("table2", "t2", "t1.id = t2.id")
    .group("t1.id")
    .where("t2.name <> 'Mark'")
    .where("t2.name <> 'John'")
    .toString()

UPDATE

// UPDATE test SET f1 = 1
squel.update()
    .table("test")
    .set("f1", 1)
    .toString()

// UPDATE test, test2, test3 AS `a` SET test.id = 1, test2.val = 1.2, a.name = "Ram", a.email = NULL
squel.update()
    .table("test")
    .set("test.id", 1)
    .table("test2")
    .set("test2.val", 1.2)
    .table("test3","a")
    .set("a.name", "Ram")
    .set("a.email", null)
    .toString()

INSERT

// INSERT INTO test (f1) VALUES (1)
squel.insert()
    .into("test")
    .set("f1", 1)
    .toString()

// INSERT INTO test (f1, f2, f3, f4, f5) VALUES (1, 1.2, TRUE, "blah", NULL)
squel.insert()
    .into("test")
    .set("f1", 1)
    .set("f2", 1.2)
    .set("f3", true)
    .set("f4", "blah")
    .set("f5", null)
    .toString()

DELETE

// DELETE FROM test
squel.delete()
    .from("test")
    .toString()

// DELETE FROM table1 WHERE (table1.id = 2) ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 2
squel.delete()
    .from("table1")
    .where("table1.id = 2")
    .order("id", false)
    .limit(2)

Expression builder

There is also an expression builder which allows you to build complex expressions for WHERE and ON clauses:

// test = 3 OR test = 4
squel.expr()
    .or("test = 3")
    .or("test = 4")
    .toString()

// test = 3 AND (inner = 1 OR inner = 2) OR (inner = 3 AND inner = 4 OR (inner = 5))
squel.expr()
    .and("test = 3")
    .and_begin()
        .or("inner = 1")
        .or("inner = 2")
    .end()
    .or_begin()
        .and("inner = 3")
        .and("inner = 4")
        .or_begin()
            .and("inner = 5")
        .end()
    .end()
    .toString()

// SELECT * FROM test INNER JOIN test2 ON (test.id = test2.id) WHERE (test = 3 OR test = 4)
squel.select()
    .join( "test2", null, squel.expr().and("test.id = test2.id") )
    .where( squel.expr().or("test = 3").or("test = 4") )

Documentation

Full API documentation is available at http://squeljs.org/.

Annotated source code can be found in the docs/ folder. This is built using docco. To build it yourself you will first need to have the latest dev version of pygment installed in your local Python environment. Then do the following inside the project folder:

$ npm install
$ make docs

Testing

Tests are written in Mocha and can be found in the test/ folder. To run them do the following:

$ npm install
$ make test

Contributing

If you wish to submit a pull request please update and/or create new tests for any changes you make and ensure all the tests pass.

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Homepage: http://squeljs.org Source: https://github.com/hiddentao/squel

Copyright (c) 2012 Ramesh Nair

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