[Developers] Query Builder 0.4

William Pietri william at scissor.com
Thu Mar 29 20:14:38 UTC 2007


At Jack's suggestion, I've been working on an app that allows 
point-and-click building of queries. You can see it here:

    http://dev.scissor.com/querybuilder/

Current features:

    * no freebase login required
    * browses domain/type tree
    * builds simple queries for single type
    * works against sandbox


Right now, I think it works well enough to help newbies get going with 
MQL, so I'm releasing it to the public. In upcoming releases. There are 
a couple of known issues:

    * it's very ugly, at least until I get some CSS help
    * it doesn't allow filtering on all types
    * clicking on a property name in the property browser puts it at the
      bottom of the list


Likely upcoming features include:

    * filtering support for
          o dates
          o booleans
          o numerics
    * executing queries
    * proper handling of mediator types (like roles in a film)
    * nested browsing of type properties
    * sorts
    * limits
    * optional constraints



Please try it out and let me know what you think!

Thanks,

William




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