@verycrazydog/mysql-parser

A parser for MySQL statements. The current goal is to provide a solution to the missing DELIMITER syntax support in Node.js module mysql with the aim to support MySQL dump file and common usage scenario.

Install

npm install @verycrazydog/mysql-parser

Usage

Split into an array of MySQL statement, one statement per array item

const mysqlParser = require('@verycrazydog/mysql-parser')
const splitResult = mysqlParser.split(`
  -- Comment is removed
  SELECT 1;
  DELIMITER ;;
  SELECT 2;;
  DELIMITER ;
  SELECT 3;
`)
// Print [ 'SELECT 1', 'SELECT 2', 'SELECT 3' ]
console.log(splitResult)

Split into an array of MySQL statement, allow multiple statements per array item

const mysqlParser = require('@verycrazydog/mysql-parser')
const splitResult = mysqlParser.split(`
  SELECT 1;
  SELECT 2;
  DELIMITER $
  SELECT 3$
  DELIMITER ;
  SELECT 4;
`, { multipleStatements: true })
// Print ["SELECT 1;\nSELECT 2;\nSELECT 3;\nSELECT 4;"]
console.log(JSON.stringify(splitResult))

Split into an array of MySQL statement, retaining comments

const mysqlParser = require('@verycrazydog/mysql-parser')
const splitResult = mysqlParser.split([
  '-- Comment is retained',
  'SELECT 1;',
  'SELECT 2;'
].join('\n'), { retainComments: true })
// Print [ '-- Comment is retained\nSELECT 1', 'SELECT 2' ]
console.log(splitResult)

A more extensive example

const util = require('util')
const mysql = require('mysql')
const mysqlParser = require('@verycrazydog/mysql-parser')

// Try change this to see the effect of `multipleStatements` option
const ENABLE_MULTI_STATEMENT = true

;(async () => {
  const rawConn = mysql.createConnection({
    host: 'my_host',
    user: 'my_username',
    password: 'my_password',
    multipleStatements: ENABLE_MULTI_STATEMENT
  })
  const conn = {
    raw: rawConn,
    connect: util.promisify(rawConn.connect).bind(rawConn),
    query: util.promisify(rawConn.query).bind(rawConn),
    end: util.promisify(rawConn.end).bind(rawConn)
  }
  const sqlFile = `
    SELECT 'Hello world!' message FROM dual;
    DELIMITER $
    SELECT 'DELIMITER is supported!' message FROM dual$
    DELIMITER ;    SELECT 'Same as MySQL client, this will not print out' message FROM dual;
    /*! SELECT "'/*!' style comment is executed!" message FROM dual */;
    -- multipleStatements option allows statements that can be separated by
    /* semicolon combined together in one, allowing to send to server in one */
    ## batch, reducing execution time on high latency network
    SELECT 'Goodbye world!' message FROM dual;
  `
  const sqls = mysqlParser.split(sqlFile, { multipleStatements: ENABLE_MULTI_STATEMENT })
  let queryCount = 0
  await conn.connect()
  try {
    sqls.forEach(async sql => {
      const queryResults = await conn.query(sql)
      queryCount++
      queryResults.forEach(queryResult => {
        if (!(queryResult instanceof Array)) {
          queryResult = [queryResult]
        }
        queryResult.forEach(row => console.log(row.message))
      })
    })
  } finally {
    await conn.end()
  }
  // Print:
  //   Hello world!
  //   DELIMITER is supported!
  //   '/*!' style comment is executed!
  //   Goodbye world!
  //   Done! Query count: 1
  console.log('Done! Query count:', queryCount)
})()

Limitation

Some limitations of this module which are currently not addressed:

• MySQL client will return DELIMITER cannot contain a backslash character if backslash is used such as DELIMITER \\, however this module will not throw any error and will ignore the DELIMITER line.
• MySQL client support \g and \G as delimiter, however this module will not treat them as delimiter.
• MySQL client will return DELIMITER must be followed by a 'delimiter' character or string if there is nothing specified after keyword DELIMITER, however this module will not throw any error and will ignore the DELIMITER line.

License

This module is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledge

This module was built by referencing the following materials:

• Support DELIMITER syntax issue on Node.js module mysql.
• MySQL parser implementation and test cases implementation in VS Code extension vscode-database.

Related

Below are some modules found to be related to the goal of this module during development:

• exec-sql: Execute MySQL SQL files in directories.
• execsql: Execute you *.sql file which contains multiple sql statements.
• sql-ast: Parse the output of mysqldump into an AST.
• sql-parser: A SQL parser written in pure JS.