node-firebird

Pure JavaScript and Asynchronous Firebird client for Node.js.

To get help, join [this] 2 google group.

If you are new to Firebird you will find useful documentation [here] 1.

Install

npm install node-firebird

Examples

Connecting

fb = require("node-firebird");
fb.attach(
    {
        host: '127.0.0.1',
        database: 'database.fdb',
        user: 'SYSDBA',
        password: 'masterkey'
    },
	function(err, db){
        if (err) {
            console.log(err.message);
        } else {
            database = db;
        	console.log("connected");
        }
	}
);

Querying

Simple query

database.query("select cast(? as integer) from rdb$database", 123,
	function (err, result) {
		console.log(result)
	}
);

The transaction automatically started, commited or rollbacked.

• query is a non optional string.
• params is optional, can be a single value or an array.
• callback is optional.

Using transaction

function checkError(err) {
    if (err) {
        throw new Error(err.message)
    }
}
function check(tr, callback){
    return function(err, param) {
        if (!err) {
            callback(err, param);
        } else {
            tr.rollback();
            throw new Error(err.message)
        }
    }
}

database.startTransaction(
    function(err, transaction) {
        checkError(err);
        transaction.query("select cast(? as integer) from rdb$database", 123,
            check(transaction, function(err, result1) {
                transaction.query("select cast(? as integer) from rdb$database", 456,
                    check(transaction, function(err, result2) {
                        transaction.commit(
                            function(err) {
                                checkError(err);
                                console.log(result1[0]);
                                console.log(result2[0]);
                            }
                        )
                    })
                );
            })
        );
    }
)

Arrays or Objects ?

The common usage is to fetch records as objects

database.query(...)

You can also fetch records as arrays

database.execute(...)

In this case you can retrieve fields name in the callback

function(err, rows, fields){...}

You can do the same on transactions.

Detaching

To quit the event loop you can do

database.detach();

Errors handling

This is a typical error object:

{
	status: [
		{gdscode: 335544569},                   // Dynamic SQL Error
		{gdscode: 335544436, params: [-104]},   // SQL error code = -104
		{gdscode: 335544634, params: [1,31]},   // Token unknown - line 1, column 31
		{gdscode: 335544382, params: ["m"]}     // m
	],
	sqlcode: -104,
	message: "Dynamic SQL Error, SQL error code = -104, Token unknown - line 1, column 31, m"
}

• The first gdscode value is the most significant error.
• The sqlcode value is extracted from status vector.
• The message string is built using firebird.msg file.

Charset for database connection is always UTF-8

node-firebird doesn't let you chose the charset connection, it will always use UTF8. Node is unicode, no matter if your database is using another charset to store string or blob, Firebird will transliterate automatically.

This is why you should use Firebird 2.5 server at least.