vkbeautify.xml(camlsql.prepare("SELECT * FROM Movies WHERE (Title = ? AND Title LIKE ?) AND (Fun = ? OR Scary < ?)",["summer", 'did', 10, 6,0,6]).getXml());

This query creates the following parsed object.

The first two "groups" are the same. There should only be one of those.

[{
	"type": "group",
	"value": "Title = ? AND Title LIKE ?",
	"operator": "and",
	"items": [{
		"type": "statement",
		"operator": "and",
		"field": "Title",
		"macro": "@param0",
		"comparison": "eq"
	}, {
		"type": "statement",
		"operator": "and",
		"field": "Title",
		"macro": "@param1",
		"comparison": "like"
	}]
}, {
	"type": "group",
	"value": "(Title = ? AND Title LIKE ?)",
	"operator": "and",
	"items": [{
		"type": "statement",
		"operator": "and",
		"field": "(Title",
		"macro": "@param2",
		"comparison": "eq"
	}, {
		"type": "statement",
		"operator": "and",
		"field": "Title",
		"macro": "@param3",
		"comparison": "like"
	}]
}, {
	"type": "group",
	"value": "Fun = ? OR Scary < ?",
	"operator": "and",
	"items": [{
		"type": "statement",
		"operator": "and",
		"field": "Fun",
		"macro": "@param4",
		"comparison": "eq"
	}, {
		"type": "statement",
		"operator": "or",
		"field": "Scary",
		"macro": "@param5",
		"comparison": "lt"
	}]
}]

Complex groups will break

SELECT * FROM [Decisions] WHERE [Title] LIKE ? AND (([Motivation] IS NULL AND [IsBoss] = ?) or (P = ? AND P2 < ?))

Make sure you can use proper list names where needed.
Maybe require [ ] when it contains spaces? That's a good plan!

Let's not allow spaces in a joined list alias..

SELECT * FROM ListName -> "ListName"
SELECT * FROM [List Name] -> "List Name"
SELECT * FROM List Name -> Not ok

SELECT * FROM [List Name]
JOIN FavoriteBook ON [List Name].Favourite_book 
 -> ok

SELECT * FROM [List Name]
JOIN FavoriteBook ON List Name.Favourite_book 
 -> error

SELECT * FROM [List Name]
JOIN FavoriteBook ON [List Name].Favourite_book 
 -> ok

When using encoded field names in the query it would make sense to be able to access properties using the non-encoded name in the result.

SELECT [Title], [Båtfärg] FROM ListOfBoats`

<script>
 camlsql.prepare(...).exec(function(err, rows) {

   // I want to be able to use 
   var color = rows[0]["Båtfärg"];

   // Instead of 
   var color = rows[0].B_x00e5_tf_x00e4_rg
 });
</script>

Or I will have to know the encoded filename anyway and then what's the point of being able to use the non-encoded filename in the SQL-query?

When I write WHERE Preamble=? (with no spaces around =) then the field name is cut.

• When using WHERE Preamble=? (with no spaces around =) then the field name is cut to <FieldRef Name="Preambl" />
• When using Preamble<? the comparison is not recognized at all
• When using Preamble>? the comparison becomes EQUAL and not GT
• PreambleLIKE seems to work. But it probably should not... Same thing with Preamblein? or walkin?. Field name will be "Preamble" with an IN clause

Greetings again! How useful do you think a library like this would be if it could expand to support the other CRUD list operations in sharepoint? I love how caml sql supports the select statement, but I think it would be a real quantum leap if it could also support inserts, updates, and deletes.

How popular/beneficial do you think that capability would be? From what I've seen, there's a few other SP JS libraries that allow you to do similar things, but their syntax is broken into something resembling LINQ methods. (I'm not asking you to develop this capability, I'm really just asking your opinion, and I would take care of the dev part myself :)

How should ( and ) be encoded? It's not encoded at all now

SELECT * FROM [Decisions] WHERE [Title] LIKE ? AND (([Motivation] IS NULL OR [IsBoss] = ?) or P = ?) works fine

But SELECT * FROM [Decisions] WHERE [Title] LIKE ? AND ( ([Motivation] IS NULL OR [IsBoss] = ?) or P = ?)
does not (See the SPACE character in the Motivation parenthesises.

camlsql.prepare("SELECT * FROM Listan WHERE a = @meh AND y is null", {"@meh" : "test"});

You get the error:

[camlsql] You can not mix named macros and ?

• Ensure text is used for LIKE statements
• Ens

getDateFromTextualRepresentation("week start", new Date(1980, 03, 04));

supposed to be 31st of april 00:00:00 but returns
Sun Mar 30 1980 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (Central Europe Standard Time)
same with week end
var d = camlsql.testonly.getDateFromTextualRepresentation("week end", new Date(1980, 03, 04));