SODA

An overview of Simple Oracle Document Access (SODA) can be found here.

SODA requires Oracle Client 18.3 or higher and Oracle Database 18.1 and higher. The role SODA_APP must be granted to the user.

SODA support in cx_Oracle is in Preview status and should not be used in production. It will be supported with a future version of Oracle Client libraries.

SODA Database Object

Note

This object is an extension the DB API. It is returned by the method Connection.getSodaDatabase().

SodaDatabase.createCollection(name, metadata=None, mapMode=False)

Creates a SODA collection with the given name and returns a new SODA collection object. If you try to create a collection, and a collection with the same name and metadata already exists, then that existing collection is opened without error.

If metadata is specified, it is expected to be a string containing valid JSON or a dictionary that will be transformed into a JSON string. This JSON permits you to specify the configuration of the collection including storage options; specifying the presence or absence of columns for creation timestamp, last modified timestamp and version; whether the collection can store only JSON documents; and methods of key and version generation. The default metadata creates a collection that only supports JSON documents and uses system generated keys. See this collection metadata reference for more information.

If the mapMode parameter is set to True, the new collection is mapped to an existing table instead of creating a table. If a collection is created in this way, dropping the collection will not drop the existing table either.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDatabase.createDocument(content, key=None, mediaType="application/json")

Creates a SODA document usable for SODA write operations. You only need to use this method if your collection requires client-assigned keys or has non-JSON content; otherwise, you can pass your content directly to SODA write operations. SodaDocument attributes ‘createdOn’, ‘lastModified’ and ‘version’ will be None.

The content parameter can be a dictionary or list which will be transformed into a JSON string and then UTF-8 encoded. It can also be a string which will be UTF-8 encoded or it can be a bytes object which will be stored unchanged. If a bytes object is provided and the content is expected to be JSON, note that SODA only supports UTF-8, UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE encodings.

The key parameter should only be supplied if the collection in which the document is to be placed requires client-assigned keys.

The mediaType parameter should only be supplied if the collection in which the document is to be placed supports non-JSON documents and the content for this document is non-JSON. Using a standard MIME type for this value is recommended but any string will be accepted.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDatabase.getCollectionNames(startName=None, limit=0)

Returns a list of the names of collections in the database that match the criteria, in alphabetical order.

If the startName parameter is specified, the list of names returned will start with this value and also contain any names that fall after this value in alphabetical order.

If the limit parameter is specified and is non-zero, the number of collection names returned will be limited to this value.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDatabase.openCollection(name)

Opens an existing collection with the given name and returns a new SODA collection object. If a collection with that name does not exist, None is returned.

New in version 7.0.

SODA Collection Object

Note

This object is an extension the DB API. It is used to represent SODA collections and is created by methods SodaDatabase.createCollection() and SodaDatabase.openCollection().

SodaCollection.createIndex(spec)

Creates an index on a SODA collection. The spec is expected to be a dictionary or a JSON-encoded string. See this overview for information on indexes in SODA.

Note that a commit should be performed before attempting to create an index.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.drop()

Drops the collection from the database, if it exists. Note that if the collection was created with mapMode set to True the underlying table will not be dropped.

A boolean value is returned indicating if the collection was actually dropped.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.dropIndex(name, force=False)

Drops the index with the specified name, if it exists.

The force parameter, if set to True, can be used to force the dropping of an index that the underlying Oracle Database domain index doesn’t normally permit. This is only applicable to spatial and JSON search indexes. See here for more information.

A boolean value is returned indicating if the index was actually dropped.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.find()

This method is used to begin an operation that will act upon documents in the collection. It creates and returns a SodaOperation object which is used to specify the criteria and the operation that will be performed on the documents that match that criteria.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.getDataGuide()

Returns a SODA document object containing property names, data types and lengths inferred from the JSON documents in the collection. It can be useful for exploring the schema of a collection. Note that this method is only supported for JSON-only collections where a JSON search index has been created with the ‘dataguide’ option enabled. If there are no documents in the collection, None is returned.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.insertOne(doc)

Inserts a given document into the collection. The input document can be a dictionary or list or an existing SODA document object.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.insertOneAndGet(doc)

Similarly to insertOne() this method inserts a given document into the collection. The only difference is that it returns a SODA Document object. Note that for performance reasons the returned document does not contain the content.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.metadata

This read-only attribute returns a dicationary containing the metadata that was used to create the collection. See this collection metadata reference for more information.

New in version 7.0.

SodaCollection.name

This read-only attribute returns the name of the collection.

New in version 7.0.

SODA Document Object

Note

This object is an extension the DB API. It is returned by the methods SodaDatabase.createDocument(), SodaOperation.getDocuments() and SodaOperation.getOne() as well as by iterating over SODA document cursors.

SodaDoc.createdOn

This read-only attribute returns the creation time of the document in ISO 8601 format. Documents created by SodaDatabase.createDocument() or fetched from collections where this attribute is not stored will return None.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDoc.getContent()

Returns the content of the document as a dictionary or list. This method assumes that the content is application/json and will raise an exception if this is not the case. If there is no content, however, None will be returned.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDoc.getContentAsBytes()

Returns the content of the document as a bytes object. If there is no content, however, None will be returned.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDoc.getContentAsString()

Returns the content of the document as a string. If the document encoding is not known, UTF-8 will be used. If there is no content, however, None will be returned.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDoc.key

This read-only attribute returns the unique key assigned to this document. Documents created by SodaDatabase.createDocument() may not have a value assigned to them and return None.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDoc.lastModified

This read-only attribute returns the last modified time of the document in ISO 8601 format. Documents created by SodaDatabase.createDocument() or fetched from collections where this attribute is not stored will return None.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDoc.mediaType

This read-only attribute returns the media type assigned to the document. By convention this is expected to be a MIME type but no checks are performed on this value. If a value is not specified when calling SodaDatabase.createDocument() or the document is fetched from a collection where this component is not stored, the string “application/json” is returned.

New in version 7.0.

SodaDoc.version

This read-only attribute returns the version assigned to this document. Documents created by SodaDatabase.createDocument() or fetched from collections where this attribute is not stored will return None.

New in version 7.0.

SODA Document Cursor Object

Note

This object is an extension the DB API. It is returned by the method SodaOperation.getCursor() and implements the iterator protocol. Each iteration will return a SODA document object.

SodaDocCursor.close()

Close the cursor now, rather than whenever __del__ is called. The cursor will be unusable from this point forward; an Error exception will be raised if any operation is attempted with the cursor.

New in version 7.0.

SODA Operation Object

Note

This object is an extension to the DB API. It represents an operation that will be performed on all or some of the documents in a SODA collection. It is created by the method SodaCollection.find().

SodaOperation.count()

Returns a count of the number of documents in the collection that match the criteria. If skip() or limit() were called on this object, an exception is raised.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.filter(value)

Sets a filter specification for complex document queries and ordering of JSON documents. Filter specifications must be provided as a dictionary or JSON-encoded string and can include comparisons, regular expressions, logical and spatial operators, among others. See the overview of SODA filter specifications for more information.

As a convenience, the SodaOperation object is returned so that further criteria can be specified by chaining methods together.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.getCursor()

Returns a SODA Document Cursor object that can be used to iterate over the documents that match the criteria.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.getDocuments()

Returns a list of SODA Document objects that match the criteria.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.getOne()

Returns a single SODA Document object that matches the criteria. Note that if multiple documents match the criteria only the first one is returned.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.key(value)

Specifies that the document with the specified key should be returned. This causes any previous calls made to this method and keys() to be ignored.

As a convenience, the SodaOperation object is returned so that further criteria can be specified by chaining methods together.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.keys(seq)

Specifies that documents that match the keys found in the supplied sequence should be returned. This causes any previous calls made to this method and key() to be ignored.

As a convenience, the SodaOperation object is returned so that further criteria can be specified by chaining methods together.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.limit(value)

Specifies that only the specified number of documents should be returned. This method is only usable for read operations such as getCursor() and getDocuments(). For write operations, any value set using this method is ignored.

As a convenience, the SodaOperation object is returned so that further criteria can be specified by chaining methods together.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.remove()

Removes all of the documents in the collection that match the criteria. The number of documents that have been removed is returned.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.replaceOne(doc)

Replaces a single document in the collection with the specified document. The input document can be a dictionary or list or an existing SODA document object. A boolean indicating if a document was replaced or not is returned.

Currently the method key() must be called before this method can be called.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.replaceOneAndGet(doc)

Similarly to replaceOne(), this method replaces a single document in the collection with the specified document. The only difference is that it returns a SODA document object. Note that for performance reasons the returned document does not contain the content.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.skip(value)

Specifies the number of documents that match the other criteria that will be skipped. This method is only usable for read operations such as getCursor() and getDocuments(). For write operations, any value set using this method is ignored.

As a convenience, the SodaOperation object is returned so that further criteria can be specified by chaining methods together.

New in version 7.0.

SodaOperation.version(value)

Specifies that documents with the specified version should be returned. Typically this is used with key() to implement optimistic locking, so that the write operation called later does not affect a document that someone else has modified.

As a convenience, the SodaOperation object is returned so that further criteria can be specified by chaining methods together.

New in version 7.0.