dbcrawler

The basic use of dbcrawler is to generate sql dump statements from tables in your database. It crawls the database using the information provided by the user.

To install type - npm install -g dbcrawler

Basic usage: To test the basic usage

dbcrawler  -u "palash" -d "sakila" -h "localhost" -p "password" -c "actor_info.actor_id=actor.actor_id,film.film_id=film_actor.film_id" -s "actor.actor_id=3" 

Usage: dbcrawler [options]

Options:

-h, --help                     output usage information
-V, --version                  output the version number
-h --host <string>             host where database has to be accessed
-u --user <string>             database user
-d --database <string>         database which is to crawled
-p --password <string>         password to database
-c --constraints <value>       Constraint using which to crawl the database
-i --ignore <string>           table.columns to ignore from insert generation
-r --required <string>         only table.columns to be used for insert generation
-s --seed <value>              data with which to start the crawl,different seed seperated by semicolon
-f --constraint_file <string>  import constraints from .json file.
-o --output_file <string>      path of the file where to write the sql dump statements

Usage options explained

-u user

User of the database which has permission to access the database. eg root,app etc.

-h host

Address where database is accessible. eg. localhost, 127.0.0.1 etc.

-d database

Database which is to be crawled . Eg sakila database in default example of this module. This sakila database can be downloaded from [here]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html

-p password

Password to access the database.

-c constraints

Constraints are just join conditions . Eg actor_info.actor_id=actor.actor_id,film.film_id=film_actor.film_id . The format acceptible is table1.column1 = table2.column2 . What this means is that use values of column2 of table2 to retrieve values from table1.

-i ignore

Sometimes we don't want few columns to be present in our generated insert statements. For eg. when generating a new row with existing data we usually want to remove the primary key column from the insert statement. Igore option is just for that situation.

• For eg. if we don't want id,created_at,updated_at columns of table1 then we can provide the command line parameter

  -i "table1.id,table1.created_at,table1.updated_at"

-r required

Sometimes we just want insert statements for few columns only. then we can provide tablename.column names separated by comma.

• For eg. if we only want first_name,middle_name and last_name of table1 then we can provide the option

-r "table1.first_name,table1.middle_name,table1.last_name"

-s seed

Seed means the initial data that has to be given to crawler to start the crawl. For eg. actor.actor_id=3,4,5;film_actor.actor_id=5 . Each seed consists of tableName.columnName=commaSeperatedValues . Each two seeds are seperated from each other using ; as given in example above. Above seed will start from 2 points first from actor table using actor_id values 3,4,5 and from film_actor table using actor_id 5.

-f constrant_file

instead of passing constraint from commandline they can also be exported from json file. the format of the json will be like

var data = {
    constraint: [{
        table_name: "actor",
        column_name: "actor_id",
        referenced_table_name: "actor_info",
        referenced_column_name: "actor_id"
    }, {
        table_name: "film_actor",
        column_name: "film_id",
        referenced_table_name: "film",
        referenced_column_name: "film_id"
    } ]
};
module.exports = data;

Here list of constraints are kept as 'constraints' object inside main object. So from commandline point of view each constraint is of the form referenced_table_name.referenced_column_name=table_name.table_column

-o output_file

This is the path of the file where all the dump statements are to be written.