Type Safety Coming To DB Queries

An anonymous reader writes "A new type-safe query language for the popular full-text search platform Solr, called Slashem (a Rogue-like), has just been released. Slashem is implemented as a domain-specific language in Scala, providing compile time type-safety, allowing you do things like date range queries against date fields but keeping you from trying to do a date range query against a string field. Hopefully this trend catches on, resulting in fewer invalid queries exploding at runtime."

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Slashem, a roguelike

[Xgamer4]

...Well, there's a namespace collision. There's Slashem and roguelike as referenced in the summary, and Slash'em and Roguelike as-in the Nethack-based game and the game genre. There's no way that wasn't intentional, and whoever's brilliant idea it was needs to be shot.

Re:Gibberish - wrapped up as geekspeak

[Samantha Wright]

This exactly.

The server hits you with its internal schema!
You cast SELECT * FROM ut_f81 INNER JOIN ut_f81 alt_ut_f81 ON alt_ut_f81.globalid = ut_f81.rrn / 2 WHERE (SELECT * FROM ut_f81 INNER JOIN ut_f81 alt_ut_f812 ON alt_ut_f812.globalid = alt_ut_f81.rrn / 2 WHERE (SELECT * FROM ut_f81 INNER JOIN ut_f81 alt_ut_f813 ON alt_ut_f813.globalid = ut_f81.rrn / 2 WHERE (SELECT 1 FROM ut_f81) = 1) = 1) = 1
The server freezes, taking all of your work with it!

Do you want your possessions identified?