Search Tag Data using SQL Query

NCache provides object queries through which you can search and delete result sets based on the criteria given to the query. To retrieve data according to your specified criteria, NCache provides you with an extension of SQL queries. It lets you search the data in your cache based on the criteria of the requirement. A special keyword $Tag$ is used to specify that the condition under consideration uses Tags. The SQL query with the search criteria is executed using ExecuteReader. The ExecuteReader processes the query on the server-side and then sends the result in chunks (as a dictionary containing keys and values) to the client in a tabular form to the ICacheReader type of instance. You can query an item having a specific Tag as explained below.

Prerequisites

To learn about the standard prerequisites required to work with all NCache client-side features, please refer to the given page on Client-Side API Prerequisites.
Custom classes/searchable attributes must be indexed as explained in Configuring Query Indexes.
For API details, refer to: ICache, ICacheReader, QueryCommand, ExecuteReader, SearchService.

Install either of the following NuGet packages in your .NET client application:
- Enterprise: Install-Package Alachisoft.NCache.SDK -Version 4.9.1.0
- Professional: Install-Package Alachisoft.NCache.Professional.SDK -Version 4.9.1.0
Create a new Console Application.
Make sure that the data being added is serializable.
Add NCache References by locating %NCHOME%\NCache\bin\assembly\4.0 and adding Alachisoft.NCache.Web and Alachisoft.NCache.Runtime as appropriate.
Include the Alachisoft.NCache.Web.Caching and Alachisoft.NCache.Runtime.Caching namespaces in your application.
To learn more about the NCache Legacy API, please download the NCache 4.9 documents available as a .zip file on the Alachisoft Website.

Search Data in Cache with One Tag

Using object queries, a single Tag can be used to retrieve all the items associated with that Tag. The following example retrieves all the items associated with the Tag VIP Customers using the SQL query.

Note

Use the fully qualified name (FQN) of the class Customer, e.g., Data.Customer.

// Precondition: Cache is already connected

// Create a query for search
// Use the Fully Qualified Name (FQN) of your own custom class
string query = "Select CustomerID,ContactName FROM Alachisoft.NCache.Samples.Data.Customer WHERE $Tag$ = ?";

// Use QueryCommand for query execution
var queryCommand = new QueryCommand(query);
queryCommand.Parameters.Add("$Tag$", "VIP Customers");

// Executing Query
ICacheReader reader = cache.SearchService.ExecuteReader(queryCommand);

// Read results if result set is not empty
if (reader.FieldCount > 0)
{
    while (reader.Read())
    {
        // Get the value of the result set
        string customerID = reader.GetValue<string>("CustomerID");
        string contactName = reader.GetValue<string>("ContactName");

        Console.WriteLine($"Customer '{contactName}' having ID '{customerID}' is a VIP Customer.");
    }
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine($"No VIP Customers found");
}

// Precondition: Cache is already connected

// Create a query for search
// Use the Fully Qualified Name (FQN) of your custom class
String query = "Select customerID,contactName FROM com.alachisoft.ncache.sample.Customer WHERE $Tag$ = ?";

// Use QueryCommand for query execution
QueryCommand queryCommand = new QueryCommand(query);
queryCommand.getParameters().put("$Tag$", "VIP Customers");

// Executing Query
CacheReader reader = cache.getSearchService().executeReader(queryCommand);

// Read results if result set is not empty
if (reader.getFieldCount() > 0) 
{
    while (reader.read()) 
    {
        // Get the value of the result set
        String customerID = reader.getValue("customerID", String.class);
        String contactName = reader.getValue("contactName", String.class);

        System.out.println("Customer '" + contactName + "' having ID '" + customerID + "' is a VIP Customer.");
    }
} else 
{
    System.out.println("No VIP Customers found");
}

# Preconditions: Cache is already connected

# Items are already present in the cache with Tags
# Custom class is query indexed through NCache Management Center or config.ncconf

# Search for items with Tags
# Use the Fully Qualified Name(FQN) of your own custom class
query = "Select $Value$ FROM FQN.Customer WHERE $Tag$ = ?"

# Use QueryCommand for query execution
query_command = ncache.QueryCommand(query)
query_command.set_parameters({"$Tag$": "Important Customers"})

# Executing query
search_service = cache.get_search_service()
reader = search_service.execute_reader(query_command)

# Check if result set is not empty

if reader.get_field_count() > 0:
    while reader.read():
        # Get the value of the result set
        result = reader.get_value(Customer, 1)
else:
    # None query result set retrieved
    print("Result set is None")

// Precondition: Cache is already connected

// This is an async method

// Items are already present in the cache with Tags
// Custom class is query indexed through NCache Management Center or config.ncconf

// Search for items with Tags
// Use the Fully Qualified Name (FQN) of your own custom class
var query = "Select $Value$ FROM FQN.Customer WHERE $Tag$ = ?";

// Use QueryCommand for query execution
var queryCommand = new ncache.QueryCommand(query);
queryCommand.getParameters().set("$Tag$", "Important Customers");

// Executing query
var searchService = await this.cache.getSearchService();
var reader = await searchService.executeReader(queryCommand);

// Check if result set is not empty

if (reader.getFieldCount() > 0)
{
    while (reader.read())
    {
        // Get the value of the result set
        var result = reader.getValue(1);
    }
}
else
{
    // Null query result set retrieved
}

// Using NCache Enterprise 4.9.1
// Precondition: Cache is already connected

// Create a query for search
// Use the Fully Qualified Name (FQN) of your own custom class instead of Customer in the query string
string query = "SELECT Customer WHERE this.$Tag$=? AND this.$Tag$=?";

Hashtable queryValue = new Hashtable();

// Add items to cache containing Tags in ArrayList if multiple Tags value is required
ArrayList queryTagList = new ArrayList();
queryTagList.Add("VIP Customers");

// Add Tag list to Hashtable for query searching values.
queryValue.Add("$Tag$", queryTagList);

// Executing Query
ICacheReader queryResult = cache.ExecuteReader(query, queryValue, true);

// queryResult contains all keys related to both Tags
if (queryResult.FieldCount > 0)
{
    while (queryResult.Read())
    {
    // Get the value of the result set
     var customerobj = queryResult.GetValue(1);

    if (customerobj is Customer customer)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Customer '{customer.CompanyName}' having ID '{customer.CustomerID}' is a VIP Customer.");
    }

    }
}
else
{
     Console.WriteLine($"No VIP Customers found");
}

Warning

Providing a Null Tag value for the query will throw an ArgumentNullException or NullPointerException.

In order to get more details on NCache queries, please refer to the SQL Reference for NCache section.

Note

To ensure the operation is fail-safe, it is recommended to handle any potential exceptions within your application, as explained in Handling Failures.

Additional Resources

NCache provides sample application for Tags on GitHub.

Search Tag Data using SQL Query

Prerequisites

Search Data in Cache with One Tag

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