[erlang-questions] Mnemosyne query problem

[Andy Gross]

Matej,

mnemosyne (AFAIK) is deprecated and unmaintained.  Check out QLC  
(query list comprehensions):  http://erlang.org/doc/man/qlc.html

- Andy



On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Matej Kosik wrote:

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> Friends,
>
> I would like to perform the following query:
>
>    TableName = circuit,
>    AttributeValue = ipe_od,
>    AttributeName = type,
>    F = fun() ->
>         Q = query
>            [  Entity
>            || Entity <- table(TableName),
>               Entity.AttributeName=AttributeValue
>            ]
>         end,
>         mnemosyne:eval(Q)
>    end,
>    {atomic, Entities} = mnesia:transaction(F).
>
> Unfortunatelly, compilator rejects its. I would like to write a code  
> that selects particular
> entities from a given TableName whose AttributeName has a given  
> AttributeValue.
>
> Since Erlang does not accept bound variables here
>
> 	Entity.AttributeName=AttributeValue
>
> I must literally hard-wire particular attribute name. For example
>
> 	Entity.od_id=AttributeValue
>
> (here `od_id' means id of octal-demodulator). This way I would have  
> to write such code for every
> kind of Mnesia table and for every attribute name. That is possible  
> but does not makes sense.
>
> The immediate hack is to load all entities into the memory and make  
> ordinary list-comprehension. It
> might work, as long as things fit into memory (and some other things  
> in VM do not overflow). But how
> to actually write a code that works as the original (non-compilable)  
> piece was supposed to work?
>
> Thanks in advance
> - --
> Matej Kosik
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