Limiting query results to a specified collection using xmlrpc

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Limiting query results to a specified collection using xmlrpc

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I am attempting to use the xmlrpc API to connect to my eXist server. Can anyone tell me how to limit my results to a single collection?

I’ve tried connecting to the server at http://localhost:8080/exist/xmlrpc/db/edc_test however this yields the same results as connecting to http://localhost:8080/exist/xmlrpc and returns all matching records regardless of collection.

I have been able to successfully limit my results by writing xqueries like

for $x in collection("/db/edc_test")//root/element where $x/@name="two" return $x

but this is an extremely clunky format. Is there a “clean” way to do this that would not require modifying all my existing xqueries?

Thanks for the help,

Jason White

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Re: Limiting query results to a specified collection using xmlrpc

by WolfgangM :: Rate this Message:

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> I’ve tried connecting to the server at
> http://localhost:8080/exist/xmlrpc/db/edc_test however this yields the same
> results as connecting to http://localhost:8080/exist/xmlrpc and returns all
> matching records regardless of collection.

Yes, that's the expected behaviour. Maybe you are confusing XMLRPC
with REST? The XMLRPC service responds to exactly one URL, which is
http://localhost:8080/exist/xmlrpc. The rest of the path has no
relevance and is simply ignored by the XMLRPC library.

> I have been able to successfully limit my results by writing xqueries like
>
> for $x in collection("/db/edc_test")//root/element where $x/@name="two"
> return $x

Yes, that's the way to do it. You should consider using REST if you
want your query to depend on the context path. Normally it's not a
problem to mix REST and XMLRPC in the same app.

Wolfgang

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