Small Paco Event Query Language

There is a small query language to the /events endpoint that allows narrowing the events returned.

Introduction

There is a simple query language for retrieving select events. It allows querying across experiments, by date ranges, and for key/value pairs.

You can also append &json or &csv to get json or csv output respectively instead of an html table.

BNF Grammar

    param_string :: 'q=\'' keyvalue_pair_list '\'' 
    keyvalue_pair_list :: EMPTY |keyvalue_pair (':' keyvalue_pair)* 
    EMPTY :: '' 
    keyvalue_pair :: date_range | keyword ('=' value)+ 
    date_range :: 'date_range=' date (-date)+ 
    date :: [0-0]{4}[0-9]{2}[0-9]{2} 
    keyword :: builtin_keyword | app_specific_keyword
    builtin_keyword :: 'who' | 'when' | 'lat' | 'lon' | 'appId' | 'paco_version'
    app_specific_keyword :: [a-zA-Z_][0-9a-zA-Z_]* 
    value :: digit | word 
    digit :: [0-9]+ 
    word :: quoted_word | plain word 
    quoted_word :: quote plain_word quote
    quote :: ' | " 
    plain_word :: [0-9a-zA-Z_ ]+  

Examples

    q='experimentName=My Experiment'

    q='experimentId='

    q='experimentId=:[email protected]'

    q='experimentId=:date_range=20090831-20090902'