remoteDBConn: Create a connection to a remote database that can be use to...
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remoteDBConn

R Documentation

Create a connection to a remote database that can be use to run queries on.

Description

This connection will attempt to connect to a remote BaseX server via a webserver using the BaseX REST API. In order to connect a user must supply the server address, port, username/password as configured in the BaseX server which as read access. In addition we require TODO: optionally?) the name of the database to query.

Usage

remoteDBConn(
  dbFile,
  username,
  password,
  address = "localhost",
  port = 8984,
  validatedb = TRUE
)

Arguments

`dbFile`	GCAM database to extract scenario from.
`username`	A username configured with READ access on the remote BaseX database server.
`password`	The password for the said username. WARNING: currently just stored and sent as plain text, does BaseX even support https?
`address`	The server address such as IP or domain name address. Default is "localhost"
`port`	The server port. The default is 8984, the same as the default used by BaseX.
`validatedb`	If `TRUE`, check that a simple db query works on the connection; otherwise, don't run the check.