The API plugin provides an interface into the database through HTTP calls. It is a plugin to the monolithic server github.com/mutablelogic/go-server and as such the server needs to be installed in addition to the plugin. Instructions on how to install the server and necessary plugins is described below.

This package is part of a wider project, github.com/mutablelogic/go-sqlite. Please see the module documentation for more information.

The simplest way to install the backend is to run the following commands:

[bash] git clone github.com/mutablelogic/go-sqlite.git
[bash] cd go-sqlite
[bash] make server plugins

This will put the following binaries in the build directory:

• server is the basic monolith server binary;
• httpserver.plugin is the HTTP server plugin;
• log.plugin provides logging for HTTP requests;
• static.plugin provides static file serving. This is not necessary for the backend, but can be used to serve a frontend (see here for more information on the frontend).

To run the server, there is an example configuration file in the etc folder:

[bash] ./build/server etc/server.yaml

On Macintosh, you may need to use the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to locate the correct sqlite3 library. For example,

[bash] brew install sqlite3
[bash] DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/opt/sqlite/lib" \
  ./build/server etc/server.yaml

You can override the port by passing the -addr flag:

[bash] ./build/server -addr :9001 etc/server.yaml

Press CTRL+C to stop the server.

Requests can generally be application/json or application/x-www-form-urlencoded, which needs to be indicated in the Content-Type header. Responses are always in application/json.

Errors are returned when the status code is not 200 OK. A typical error response will look like this:

{
   "reason" : "1 error occurred:\n\t* SQL logic error\n\n",
   "code" : 400
}

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There are no query arguments for this call. Typically a response will look like this:

{
  "version": "3.36.0",
  "modules": [
    "json_tree",
    "json_each",
    "fts3",
    "fts4",
    "fts3tokenize",
    "fts5vocab",
    "fts5",
    "rtree",
    "rtree_i32",
    "fts4aux",
    "geopoly"
  ],
  "schemas": [
    "main",
    "test"
  ],
  "pool": {
    "cur": 1,
    "max": 50
  }
}

There are no query arguments for this call. Typically a response will provide you with information in the schemas. For example, a typical response may look like this:

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