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<h2><a name="examples"></a>Examples</h2>
<p>Below is a small sample code displaying the basic use of the library.
After that, another example shows how to create an
<a href="#iterator_example">iterator</a> over the result of a select
query.</p>
<h3><a name="basic_use"></a>Basic use</h3>
<pre class="example">
-- load driver
require"luasql.postgres"
-- create environment object
env = assert (luasql.postgres())
-- connect to data source
con = assert (env:connect("luasql-test"))
-- reset our table
res = con:execute"DROP TABLE people"
res = assert (con:execute[[
CREATE TABLE people(
name varchar(50),
email varchar(50)
)
]])
-- add a few elements
list = {
{ name="Jose das Couves", email="jose@couves.com", },
{ name="Manoel Joaquim", email="manoel.joaquim@cafundo.com", },
{ name="Maria das Dores", email="maria@dores.com", },
}
for i, p in pairs (list) do
res = assert (con:execute(string.format([[
INSERT INTO people
VALUES ('%s', '%s')]], p.name, p.email)
))
end
-- retrieve a cursor
cur = assert (con:execute"SELECT name, email from people")
-- print all rows, the rows will be indexed by field names
row = cur:fetch ({}, "a")
while row do
print(string.format("Name: %s, E-mail: %s", row.name, row.email))
-- reusing the table of results
row = cur:fetch (row, "a")
end
-- close everything
cur:close()
con:close()
env:close()
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<p>And the output of this script should be:</p>
<pre class="example">
Name: Jose das Couves, E-mail: jose@couves.com
Name: Manoel Joaquim, E-mail: manoel.joaquim@cafundo.com
Name: Maria das Dores, E-mail: maria@dores.com
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<h3><a name="iterator_example"></a>Iterator use</h3>
<p>It may be useful to offer an iterator for the resulting rows:</p>
<pre class="example">
function rows (connection, sql_statement)
local cursor, err = connection:execute (sql_statement)
assert (cursor, string.format ("%s (%s)", err, sql_statement))
return function ()
return cursor:fetch()
end
end
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<p>This iterator is used like:</p>
<pre class="example">
require"luasql.mysql"
env = assert (luasql.mysql())
con = assert (env:connect"my_db")
for id, name, address in rows (con, "select * from contacts") do
print ("%s: %s", name, address)
end
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