Node-ADT

New in v1.1.4: Support for Date, DateTime and NChar field types

Node ADT is a small fast library for reading Advantage Database Server database files (.ADT). It is a quick node port from the awesome rubygem by Chase Gray.

• Original Project page: http://github.com/chasemgray/Ruby-ADT

Installation

npm install node_adt

Basic Usage

    var Adt = require('node_adt');
    var adt = new Adt();
 
    adt.open('table.adt', 'ISO-8859-1', function(err, table) {
 
      console.log(table.header.recordCount);
      console.log(table.columns);
 
      table.eachRecord(function(err, record) {
        console.log(record.Name);
        console.log(record.Email);
      });
 
      table.findRecord(0, function(err, record) {
        console.log(record.Name);
      });
 
      table.close(); // Optional
    });

Changes in v1.0: Please note: forEach has been renamed to eachRecord

Supported ADT field types

ADT Field	JavaScript
Character	String
CiCharater	String
NChar	String
Logical	Boolean
Double	Number
Integer	Number
ShortInteger	Number
Date	Date
Timestamp	Date

Not implemented

Memo, Numeric, Image, Binary, Time, Raw, Money, ModTime, RowVersion

Limitations and known bugs

• The rubygem has many more features than this node package, such as CSV export and an ActiveRecord-like find method.
• ADT is read-only
• External index files are not used

Acknowledgements

Thank you, Chase Gray, for all the hard work of figuring out how the ADT format works.

Thank you, @yortus for contributing bug fixes and support for Date, Timestamp and NChar fields types. 🎉

License

(The MIT Licence)

Copyright (c) 2010-2010 Chase Gray mailto:[e-mail] Copyright (c) 2015 Albert Zak mailto:[e-mail]

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