Re: Creating files with testdata

On March 10, 2025 3:22:41 PM GMT-04:00, Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 19:17, H <agents@meddatainc.com> wrote:
>...
>> After entering my test data into the markdown file for the given test
>scenario, I would then run an awk script or similar to create a SQL
>file with the various CTE INSERT statements. Howevever, it gets complex
>since I need to handle 1:N relationships between tables in the markdown
>file...
>> I hope the above outline is understandable and am interested in
>comments and thoughts on my above approach.
>
>I do not think MD would be a good source format. Being a developer I
>would recommend taking your favorite scripting language ( perl /
>python / lua / js , whatever ), build a big object ( which can be
>easily helped by some mini-functions to build a little DSL ) and then
>spit sql from it ( for developemewnt it is normally better then using
>whatever db connection your language has, as it leaves an
>understandable sql script ).
>
>I have done this with perl for some projects, built a driver which
>defined several helper functions, then dofile("xx.dat") which returned
>a big hash and then a series of loops on the result to write the SQL
>in whatever order was neccessary.
>
>Francisco Olarte.

The plan is to use the same format for later adding information into the finished application. By the way, all
informationis text, either paragraphs, sentences or single words.