Gary Sieling

RethinkDB: SELECT * FROM …table…

You can do the equivalent of “SELECT *” in RethinkDB by just selecting the table:

db.table('users')

Which returns the data:

first_name
id
last_name
user_name
1
gary
903e0943-8ffe-41ca-a22f-7b1a964b399d
sieling
gsieling
2
gary
479e9ce1-e0bb-46b3-a65f-554ac237460a
sieling
gsieling
3
test
1b223750-799d-402a-b378-74c993a9c10c
test
test
4
gary
947a3ce6-d419-4d31-bd1e-874c721a9e6c
sieling
gsieling

If you want to use a WHERE clause, you can provide a JSON payload that matches what you want, or use Javascript.

The nice thing about this is you can ES6 arrow functions, so the code is fairly concise, for Javascript:

r.db('test')
 .table('users')
 .filter(
   (doc) => doc('last_name').eq('sieling') 
  );

r.db('test')
 .table('users')
 .filter({'last_name': 'sieling'})

The most difficult thing to get used to is that you can’t use “===”, “>=”, etc in your Javascript, since everything is functions.

first_name
id
last_name
user_name
1
gary
903e0943-8ffe-41ca-a22f-7b1a964b399d
sieling
gsieling
2
gary
479e9ce1-e0bb-46b3-a65f-554ac237460a
sieling
gsieling
4
gary
947a3ce6-d419-4d31-bd1e-874c721a9e6c
sieling
gsieling
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