mysql-live-select

mysql-live-select emits Node.js events when a MySQL query result set changes.

It works by monitoring table row changes written to the MySQL binary log. Each row change is passed to a user-defined trigger function. When the trigger function returns true, its associated query is re-run and the result set is diffed with the previous result set.

NOTE: This version of mysql-live-select differs from numtel's original package in that result sets are treated as dictionaries rather than arrays. The original package's diffing emits incorrect (with respect to the primary key) events when rows are inserted or deleted at any position other than the end of the array. In this version, the identity of each row is determined by a LiveMysqlKeySelector that is passed into the select function. The most common use case is LiveMysqlKeySelector.Columns([primary_key_column]), which ensures that row insertions and deletions are detected based on the value of primary_key_column.

There are other changes and additional features. See below for more details.

Built using vlasky's fork of zongji Binlog Tailer and node-mysql2.

• Example Application using Express, SockJS and React
• Meteor package for reactive MySQL
• NPM Package for Sails.js connection adapter integration
• Analogous package for PostgreSQL, pg-live-select

This package has been tested to work in MySQL 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 and 8. Expected to support all MySQL server versions >= 5.1.15.

Installation

• Add the package to your project:

  $ npm install @vlasky/mysql-live-select

• Enable MySQL binlog in my.cnf, restart MySQL server after making the changes.

  # Must be unique integer from 1-2^32
  server-id        = 1
  # Row format required for ZongJi
  binlog_format    = row
  # Directory must exist. This path works for Linux. Other OS may require
  #   different path.
  log_bin          = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
  
  binlog_do_db     = employees   # Optional, limit which databases to log
  expire_logs_days = 10          # Optional, purge old logs
  max_binlog_size  = 100M        # Optional, limit log size
  

• Create an account, then grant replication privileges:

  GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT, SELECT ON *.* TO 'user'@'localhost'

LiveMysql Constructor

The LiveMysql constructor creates up to 3 connections to your MySQL database:

• (When connection pooling is disabled) Connection for executing SELECT queries (exposed node-mysql instance as db property)
• Replication slave connection
• information_schema connection for column information

When connection pooling is enabled, additional connections are created as needed. The pool is exposed via the pool property (while db is undefined).

Arguments

Argument	Type	Description
settings	object	An object defining the settings. In addition to the node-mysql connection settings and pool settings, the additional settings below are available.
callback	function	Deprecated: callback on connection success/failure. Accepts one argument, error. See information below about events emitted.

Additional Settings

Setting	Type	Description
serverId	integer	Unique number (1 - 232) to identify this replication slave instance. Must be specified if running more than one instance. Default: 1
pool	boolean	If true, LiveMysql creates a pool rather than a single connection for SELECT queries.
minInterval	integer	Pass a number of milliseconds to use as the minimum between result set updates. Omit to refresh results on every update. May be changed at runtime.
checkConditionWhenQueued	boolean	Set to true to call the condition function of a query on every binlog row change event. By default (when undefined or false), the condition function will not be called again when a query is already queued to be refreshed. Enabling this can be useful if external caching of row changes.

Events Emitted

Use .on(...) to handle the following event types.

Event Name	Arguments	Description
error	Error	An error has occurred.
ready	None	The database connection is ready.

Quick Start

// Example:
var liveConnection = new LiveMysql(settings);
var id = 11;

liveConnection.select('select * from players where `id` = ?', [id],
LiveMysqlKeySelector.Index(), [ {
  table: table,
  condition: function(row, newRow){
    // Only refresh the results when the row matching the specified id is
    // changed.
    return row.id === id
      // On UPDATE queries, newRow must be checked as well
      || (newRow && newRow.id === id);
  }
} ]).on('update', function(diff, data){
  // diff contains an object describing the difference since the previous update
  // data contains an array of rows of the new result set
  console.log(data);
});

See example.js for full source...

LiveMysql.prototype.select(query, values, keySelector, triggers)

Argument	Type	Description
query	string	SELECT SQL statement.
values	object	Placeholder values for query. This can be null or undefined.
keySelector	LiveMysqlKeySelector	The type of key to use for identifying rows.
triggers	[object]	Array of objects defining which row changes to update result set.

Returns LiveMysqlSelect object.

Escaping queries

To manually escape identifiers and strings, call escape or escapeId in the LiveMysql object.

This should be avoided. Use the values parameter instead.

Key selectors

Name	Description
LiveMysqlKeySelector.Index()	Uses the row index as the key. This means that the result set is treated as an array.
LiveMysqlKeySelector.Columns([column1,column2,...])	Uses one or more columns as the key.
LiveMysqlKeySelector.Func(keyFunc)	Uses a function taking row and index to determine the key for a row.

Trigger options

Name	Type	Description
table	string	Name of table (required)
database	string	Name of database (optional) Default: database setting specified on connection
condition	function	Evaluate row values (optional)

Condition Function

A condition function accepts up to three arguments:

Argument Name	Description
row	Table row data
newRow	New row data (only available on UPDATE queries, null for others)
rowDeleted	Extra argument for aid in external caching: true on DELETE queries, false on INSERT queries, null on UPDATE queries.

Return true when the row data meets the condition to update the result set.

LiveMysql.prototype.pause()

Temporarily skip processing of updates from the binary log.

LiveMysql.prototype.resume()

Begin processing updates after pause(). All active live select instances will be refreshed upon resume.

LiveMysql.prototype.end()

Close connections and stop checking for updates.

LiveMysql.applyDiff(data, diff)

Exposed statically on the LiveMysql object is a function for applying a diff given in an update event to a dictionary of rows given in the data argument.

LiveMysqlSelect object

Each call to the select() method on a LiveMysql object, returns a LiveMysqlSelect object with the following methods:

Method Name	Arguments	Description
on, addListener	event, handler	Add an event handler to the result set. See the following section for a list of the available event names.
invalidate	None	Causes the result set to be updated as soon as possible, but at an unspecified time in the future. When this occurs, the update event will be triggered.
stop	None	Stop receiving updates
active	None	Return true if ready to recieve updates, false if stop() method has been called.

As well as all of the other methods available on EventEmitter...

Available Events

Event Name	Arguments	Description
update	diff, data	First argument contains an object describing the difference since the previous update event with added, changed, and removed rows. Second argument contains complete result set as a dictionary.
error	error	Unhandled errors will be thrown

Running Tests

Tests must be run with a properly configured MySQL server. Configure test settings in test/settings/mysql.js.

Execute Nodeunit using the npm test command.

License

MIT