Saving variable value in database and using later - mysql

Question

json2json library converts one json format to another using a template variable.
var template = {
"path": ".",
"as": {
"skus": {
"path": "students,student",
"choose": ["name", "subject"],
"format": function(node, value, key) {
return { value : value };
},
"as": {
"StudentName": "name",
"StudentSubject": "subject",
}
}
}
}
transformedJson = new json2json.ObjectTemplate( template ).transform( oldJson );
I want to save this template variable in database and later use it to transform json by querying database.How can this be done?

Answer 1

Judging from your tag, you would like to insert this data into a MySQL database. You just need a client. In that case, you could use a package like mysql to do so. They provide a very basic example in their documentation (which I've very quickly and slightly adapted to your question):
var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
host : 'localhost',
user : 'me',
password : 'secret',
database : 'my_db'
});
connection.connect();
connection.query('INSERT ? INTO your_table', [transformedJson], function(err, res) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log(res);
});
connection.end();
This is, of course, assuming that you have a MySQL database, a MySQL server, etc. Generally speaking, it's not a great idea to insert JSON into a MySQL database in the sense of just dumping a big object into a single field. However, MySQL 5.7.8 does support a native JSON data type.