NWSQLiteExtensions

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Various extensions for the game's built-in sqlite database.

Environment Variables

Variable Name	Value	Notes
NWNX_NWSQLITEEXTENSIONS_ENABLE_DATABASE_ON_ALL_OBJECT_TYPES	true/false	Allows SqlPrepareQueryObject() to work on all object types except areas.
NWNX_NWSQLITEEXTENSIONS_ENABLE_MERSENNE_TWISTER_FUNCTIONS	true/false	Enables Mersenne Twister SQLite functions. See below for more information.
NWNX_NWSQLITEEXTENSIONS_ENABLE_2DA_VIRTUAL_TABLE_MODULE	true/false	Enable the 2DA Virtual Table Module. See below for more information.

Mersenne Twister SQLite functions

A Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator, useful if you need a seeded RNG.

If enabled, the following functions will be available in queries:

• MT_SEED(NAME, SEED)
  • NAME is a non-empty string which is used as the id of the Mersenne Twister.
  • SEED is a positive integer value indicating the seed.
  • Returns TRUE if the seed was successfully set.
• MT_VALUE(NAME)
  • NAME is a non-empty string which is used as the id of the Mersenne Twister.
  • Returns the next value of the Mersenne Twister or -1 on error.
  • Can be used in place of RANDOM() to order a result set, for example.
• MT_DISCARD(NAME, AMOUNT)
  • NAME is a non-empty string which is used as the id of the Mersenne Twister.
  • AMOUNT is a positive integer value indicating the amount of values to discard.
  • Returns TRUE if the discard was successful.

Example functions:

void SqlMersenneTwisterSetSeed(string sName, int nSeed)
{
    sqlquery sql = SqlPrepareQueryObject(GetModule(), "SELECT MT_SEED(@name, @seed);");
    SqlBindString(sql, "@name", sName);
    SqlBindInt(sql, "@seed", nSeed);
    SqlStep(sql);
}
 
int SqlMersenneTwisterGetValue(string sName, int nMaxInteger)
{
    sqlquery sql = SqlPrepareQueryObject(GetModule(), "SELECT (MT_VALUE(@name) % @maxinteger);");
    SqlBindString(sql, "@name", sName);
    SqlBindInt(sql, "@maxinteger", nMaxInteger);
    return SqlStep(sql) ? SqlGetInt(sql, 0) : -1;
}

2DA Virtual Table Module

A SQLite Virtual Table that allows you to query 2DA data. These tables are read-only and only created in the module SQLite database.

To use it, you must first create a virtual table for a 2da using the following function:

int NWNX_NWSQLiteExtensions_CreateVirtual2DATable(string s2DA, string sColumnTypeHints = "", string sTableName = "");

The columns of the table are the columns available in the 2da, their names are case-insensitive. To get the id of a row you can use the special SQLite rowid column.

**** values in the 2DA are considered NULL in the SQLite table.

Column Type Hints

sColumnTypeHints is an optional parameter that allows you to set the datatype of a column.

If not set SQLite will assume the column type is TEXT/string, which means that if a column has integers as data you won't be able to use column >= 123 constraints in the WHERE clause and you would have to compare the value as TEXT/string: ‘column = '1’` etc.

Available Type Hints:

Hint	SQLite Type	NWScript Type
0	TEXT	string
1	INTEGER	int
2	REAL	float

Example

If we look at effecticons.2da, we can see it has the following columns:

2DA V2.0
 
           Label                                Icon               StrRef
0          ****                                 ****               0
1          DAMAGE_RESISTANCE                    ief_DamResist      8028
2          REGENERATE                           ief_Regenerate     8029

From the 2DA data we can infer that the Label and Icon columns contain strings, while the StrRef column contains integers which means our column type hint will be 001.

To create a virtual table for the effecticons.2da we would call the CreateVirtual2DATable() function as follows: NWNX_NWSQLiteExtensions_CreateVirtual2DATable("effecticons", "001");

Now that we created the virtual table, we can query it using the game's Sql* functions:

void main()
{
    sqlquery sql = SqlPrepareQueryObject(GetModule(), "SELECT label FROM effecticons WHERE label IS NOT NULL AND strref >= 8030 AND strref <= 8035;");
    while (SqlStep(sql))
    {
        SendMessageToPC(GetFirstPC(), SqlGetString(sql, 0));
    }
}

The above will list the labels of all effect icons if their label is not null (meaning not **** in the 2da) and if their StrRef is between 8030 and 8035 inclusive.

Files
file	nwnx_nwsqliteext.nss

Functions
int	NWNX_NWSQLiteExtensions_CreateVirtual2DATable (string s2DA, string sColumnTypeHints="", string sTableName="")
	Create a virtual table for s2DA in the module sqlite database. More...

Function Documentation

NWNX_NWSQLiteExtensions_CreateVirtual2DATable()

int NWNX_NWSQLiteExtensions_CreateVirtual2DATable	(	string	s2DA,
		string	sColumnTypeHints = "",
		string	sTableName = ""
	)

Create a virtual table for s2DA in the module sqlite database.

Parameters

s2DA	The 2DA name, cannot be empty.
sColumnTypeHints	A string containing type hints for the 2DA columns. See this plugin's readme file for more info.
sTableName	The table name, will use the 2da name if empty.

Returns

TRUE if the virtual table was created.

Definition at line 18 of file nwnx_nwsqliteext.nss.