query-selector 0.98

Organize app queries in an annotated SQL file.

Query selector allows one treat a file full of SQL queries as a record, with one attribute for each annotated query. This makes working with long, ad-hoc SQL queries more hygienic, and has the benefit of making it easy to find the queries.

The QuerySelector constructor accepts a string, file handle or (<package>, <resource) pair and parses the SQL into groups annotated with --@ <name> <mode>. The <name> is any Python compatible name; it will become an attribute of the object. The <mode> is merely metadata, and can be omitted; it describes whether a query should have one, none or many results.

For example, a file like this:

--@ t one
SELECT * FROM now();

becomes and object with a single attribute t:

>>> q.t
Query(args=[], mode=u'one', text=u'SELECT * FROM now();')