[mysql] How to access a RowDataPacket object

I'm currently developing a desktop application with Node-webkit. During that process I need to get some data from a local MySQL-database.

The querying works fine, but I can't figure out how to access the results. I store all of them in an array that is then passed to a function. In the console they look like this:

RowDataPacket {user_id: 101, ActionsPerformed: 20}
RowDataPacket {user_id: 102, ActionsPerformed: 110}
RowDataPacket {user_id: 104, ActionsPerformed: 3}

And here is the query structure:

var ret = [];
conn.query(SQLquery, function(err, rows, fields) {
    if (err)
        alert("...");
    else {
        for (var i of rows) 
            ret.push(i);
    }
    doStuffwithTheResult(ret);
}

How do I retrieve this in the doStuffwithTheResult function? The values are more important, but if I could get the keys as well that would be great.

I really don't see what is the big deal with this I mean look if a run my sp which is CALL ps_get_roles();. Yes I get back an ugly ass response from DB and stuff. Which is this one:

[
  [
    RowDataPacket {
      id: 1,
      role: 'Admin',
      created_at: '2019-12-19 16:03:46'
    },
    RowDataPacket {
      id: 2,
      role: 'Recruiter',
      created_at: '2019-12-19 16:03:46'
    },
    RowDataPacket {
      id: 3,
      role: 'Regular',
      created_at: '2019-12-19 16:03:46'
    }
  ],
  OkPacket {
    fieldCount: 0,
    affectedRows: 0,
    insertId: 0,
    serverStatus: 35,
    warningCount: 0,
    message: '',
    protocol41: true,
    changedRows: 0
  }
]

it is an array that kind of look like this:

rows[0] = [
    RowDataPacket {/* them table rows*/ },
    RowDataPacket { },
    RowDataPacket { }
];

rows[1] = OkPacket {
   /* them props */
}

but if I do an http response to index [0] of rows at the client I get:

[
  {"id":1,"role":"Admin","created_at":"2019-12-19 16:03:46"}, 
  {"id":2,"role":"Recruiter","created_at":"2019-12-19 16:03:46"},
  {"id":3,"role":"Regular","created_at":"2019-12-19 16:03:46"}
]

and I didnt have to do none of yow things

rows[0].map(row => {
   return console.log("row: ", {...row});
});

the output gets some like this:

row:  { id: 1, role: 'Admin', created_at: '2019-12-19 16:03:46' }
row:  { id: 2, role: 'Recruiter', created_at: '2019-12-19 16:03:46' }
row:  { id: 3, role: 'Regular', created_at: '2019-12-19 16:03:46' }

So you all is tripping for no reason. Or it also could be the fact that I'm running store procedures instead of regular querys, the response from query and sp is not the same.

You can copy all enumerable own properties of an object to a new one by Object.assign(target, ...sources):

trivial_object = Object.assign({}, non_trivial_object);

so in your scenario, it should be enough to change

ret.push(i);

to

ret.push(Object.assign({}, i));

With Object.prototype approach, JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(rows)) returns object, extract values with Object.values()

const result = Object.values(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(rows)));

Usage:

result.forEach((v) => console.log(v));

Hi try this 100% works:

results=JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(results))
doStuffwithTheResult(results); 

Solution

Just do: JSON.stringify(results)

you try the code which gives JSON without rowdatapacket:

var ret = [];
conn.query(SQLquery, function(err, rows, fields) {
    if (err)
        alert("...");
    else {
        ret = JSON.stringify(rows);
    }
    doStuffwithTheResult(ret);
}

Simpler way:

.then( resp=> {
  let resultFromDb= Object.values(resp)[0]
  console.log(resultFromDb)
}

In my example I received an object in response. When I use Object.values I have the value of the property as a response, however it comes inside an array, using [0] access the first index of this array, now i have the value to use it where I need it.

I also met the same problem recently, when I use waterline in express project for complex queries ,use the SQL statement to query.

this is my solution: first transform the return value(RowDataPacket object) into string, and then convert this string into the json object.

The following is code :

//select all user (??????)
find: function(req, res, next){
    console.log("i am in user find list");
    var sql="select * from tb_user";

    req.models.tb_user.query(sql,function(err, results) {
        console.log('>> results: ', results );
        var string=JSON.stringify(results);
        console.log('>> string: ', string );
        var json =  JSON.parse(string);
        console.log('>> json: ', json);
        console.log('>> user.name: ', json[0].name);
        req.list = json;
        next();
    });
}

The following is console:

    >> results:  [ RowDataPacket {
    user_id: '2fc48bd0-a62c-11e5-9a32-a31e4e4cd6a5',
    name: 'wuwanyu',
    psw: '123',
    school: 'Northeastern university',                                                                                                                                           
    major: 'Communication engineering',                                                                                                                                            
    points: '10',
    datems: '1450514441486',
    createdAt: Sat Dec 19 2015 16:42:31 GMT+0800 (??????),                                                                                                  
    updatedAt: Sat Dec 19 2015 16:42:31 GMT+0800 (??????),                                                                                                  
    ID: 3,
    phone: 2147483647 } ]
>> string:  [{"user_id":"2fc48bd0-a62c-11e5-9a32-a31e4e4cd6a5","name":"wuwanyu","psw":"123","school":"Northeastern university","major":"Communication engineering","points":"10","datems":"1450514
441486","createdAt":"2015-12-19T08:42:31.000Z","updatedAt":"2015-12-19T08:42:31.000Z","ID":3,"phone":2147483647}]
>> json:  [ { user_id: '2fc48bd0-a62c-11e5-9a32-a31e4e4cd6a5',
    name: 'wuwanyu',
    psw: '123',
    school: 'Northeastern university',                                                                                                                                           
    major: 'Communication engineering',                                                                                                                                            
    points: '10',
    datems: '1450514441486',
    createdAt: '2015-12-19T08:42:31.000Z',
    updatedAt: '2015-12-19T08:42:31.000Z',
    ID: 3,
    phone: 2147483647 } ]
>> user.name:  wuwanyu

I found an easy way

Object.prototype.parseSqlResult = function () {
    return JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(this[0]))
}

At db layer do the parsing as

let users= await util.knex.raw('select * from user')
    return users.parseSqlResult()

This will return elements as normal JSON array.

going off of jan's answer of shallow-copying the object, another clean implementation using map function,

High level of what this solution does: iterate through all the rows and copy the rows as valid js objects.

// function  will be used on every row returned by the query
const objectifyRawPacket = row => ({...row});

// iterate over all items and convert the raw packet row -> js object
const convertedResponse = results.map(objectifyRawPacket);

We leveraged the array map function: it will go over every item in the array, use the item as input to the function, and insert the output of the function into the array you're assigning.

more specifically on the objectifyRawPacket function: each time it's called its seeing the "{ RawDataPacket }" from the source array. These objects act a lot like normal objects - the "..." (spread) operator copies items from the array after the periods - essentially copying the items into the object it's being called in.

The parens around the spread operator on the function are necessary to implicitly return an object from an arrow function.

I had this problem when trying to consume a value returned from a stored procedure.

console.log(result[0]);

would output "[ RowDataPacket { datetime: '2019-11-15 16:37:05' } ]".

I found that

console.log(results[0][0].datetime);

Gave me the value I wanted.

db.query('select * from login',(err, results, fields)=>{
    if(err){
        console.log('error in fetching data')
    }
    var string=JSON.stringify(results);
    console.log(string);
    var json =  JSON.parse(string);
   // to get one value here is the option
    console.log(json[0].name);
})

If anybody needs to retrive specific RowDataPacket object from multiple queries, here it is.

Before you start

Important: Ensure you enable multipleStatements in your mysql connection like so:

// Connection to MySQL
var db = mysql.createConnection({
  host:     'localhost',
  user:     'root',
  password: '123',
  database: 'TEST',
  multipleStatements: true
});

Multiple Queries

Let's say we have multiple queries running:

  // All Queries are here
  const lastCheckedQuery = `
    -- Query 1
    SELECT * FROM table1
    ;

    -- Query 2
    SELECT * FROM table2;
    `
    ;

  // Run the query
  db.query(lastCheckedQuery, (error, result) => {
    if(error) {
      // Show error
      return res.status(500).send("Unexpected database error");
    }

If we console.log(result) you'll get such output:

[
  [
    RowDataPacket {
      id: 1,
      ColumnFromTable1: 'a',
    }
  ],
  [
    RowDataPacket {
      id: 1,
      ColumnFromTable2: 'b',
    }
  ]
]

Both results show for both tables.

Here is where basic Javascript array's come in place https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array

To get data from table1 and column named ColumnFromTable1 we do

result[0][0].ColumnFromTable1 // Notice the double [0]

which gives us result of a.