QVX from Node.js if someone might find it useful

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Hi all,

I have created something, out of necessity as all good things, that lets me use something more clever then csv to import/export data to/from Node.js. It could perhaps be something that would be useful for more than me

It's a node module call qvx that can be found at kmpm/node-qvx · GitHub or installed by running npm install.

It's a couple of stream tranform implementations that reads (qvx.Inbound) and writes (qvx.Outbound) qvx data.

It's currently in a Alpha stage and it doesn't implement everything in the Qvx file format yet but it "works for me" tm.

I also made a demo http server using Hapi and the qvx module that you can find here kmpm/node-qvxserver · GitHub.

Example javascript for serving qvx from a json file using Hapi and streams.

function (request, reply) {

  var fields = {

    'AddressNumber': {type: DataTypes.FLOAT(8)},

    'ItemNumber': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'InvoiceDate': {type: DataTypes.TIMESTAMP('utf-8', 1)},

    'PromisedDeliveryDate': {type: DataTypes.TIMESTAMP}, //'2010-11-19T23:00:00.000Z',

    'Date': {type: DataTypes.TIMESTAMP}, //'2010-11-19T23:00:00.000Z',

    'InvoiceNumber': {type: DataTypes.FLOAT(8)},

    'OrderNumber': {type: DataTypes.FLOAT(8)},

    'ItemDesc': {type: DataTypes.STRING('utf-8', 4)},

    'SalesQty': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'OpenQty': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'OpenOrder': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'GrossSales': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'Sales': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'BackOrder': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'Cost': {type: DataTypes.BCD(18).DECIMALS(4)},

    'Margin': {type: DataTypes.BCD(18).DECIMALS(4)},

    'SalesKey': {type: DataTypes.STRING('utf-8', 4)},

    'ofDaysLate': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)},

    'ofDaystoShip': {type: DataTypes.BIGINT().DECIMALS(0)}

  };

  var schema = new qvx.Schema({

    tableName: 'test',

    recordFormat: 'object',

    fields: fields

  });

  var outbound = new qvx.Outbound(schema);

  var dataStream = fs.createReadStream(path.join(__dirname, 'test_data.json'))

  .pipe(es.split())

  .pipe(es.parse())

  .pipe(outbound);

  reply(dataStream)

  .type('application/octet-stream')

  .header('content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=test.qvx;');

}