CompassQL

CompassQL Query Language for visualization recommendation.

Development Instructions

You can install npm dependency with:

npm install

You can use the following npm commands such as

npm run build
npm run lint
npm run test
npm run cover       // see test coverage  (see coverage/lcov-report/index.html)
npm run watch       // watcher that build, lint, and test
npm run test-debug  // useful for debugging unit-test with vscode
npm run clean       // useful for wiping out js files that's created from other branch

(See package.json for Full list of commands.)

To play with latest CompassQL in the vega-editor, use branch cql-vl2, which has been updated to use Vega-Lite 2 and Vega 3. (For CompassQL 0.7 or older, use branch compassql, which uses Vega-Lite 1.x).

Make sure to link CompassQL to the editor

cd COMPASSQL_DIR
npm link

cd VEGA_EDITOR_DIR
npm run vendor -- -l compassql

(You might want to link your local version of Vega-Lite as well.)

Main API

The main method is cql.query, which is in src/query.ts.

Directory Structure

• examples - Example CompassQL queries
  • examples/specs – All JSON files for CompassQL queries
  • examples/cql-examples.json - A json files listing all CompasssQL examples that should be shown in Vega-editor.
• src/ - Main source code directory.
  • src/cql.ts is the root file for CompassQL codebase that exports the global cql object. Other files under src/ reflect namespace structure.
  • All interface for CompassQL syntax should be declared at the top-level of the src/ folder.
• test/ - Code for unit testing. test's structure reflects src's' directory structure. For example, test/constraint/ test files inside src/constraint/.
• typings/ - TypeScript typing declaration for dependencies. Some of them are downloaded from the TypeStrong community.

Pro-Tip

• When you add a new source file to the project, don't forget to the file to files in tsconfig.json.