LightStore CLI

Command line interface for LightStore.

Installation

npm install -g lightstore-cli

Usage

lightstore [filename.ls] [JavaScript expression]

The LightStore CLI gives you a prompt-based interface where you can run JavaScript expressions as it were a Node prompt. Alternatively, you can specify a file name and expression up front, and have only that ran by the LightStore engine.

LightStore gives you the following globals (apart from the regular JS and Node globals):

• ls: Reference to the query API. Instance of lightstore.PersistedTree, which inherits from sntls.Tree.
• open(): Opens a datastore file for read/write. You can check the current file name via ls.file.
• exit(): Shorthand for exiting the CLI. Calls process.exit().

###Examples

Fetches datastore contents, dumps them to stdout and exits

$ lightstore test.js 'ls.items'

Sets a value in the datastore

$ lightstore test.js
> ls.setNode('foo>bar'.toPath(), "hello")
> ls.items
{
  "foo": {
    "bar": "hello"
  }
}

Queries paths grouped by employee last names and saves the resulting data set to file in LightStore format. Illustrates how LightStore allows all transformations available through sntls.

$ lightstore employees.ls
> ls.queryPathValuePairsAsHash('|>firstName'.toQuery())
    .toStringDictionary()
    .reverse()
    .toPersistedTree('firstNames.ls')
    .save()