Constructing queries from String or JSON for CBL

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I have a REST API written in node that was previously using Ottoman v2 to communicate with Couchbase Server but have shifted to using Sync and Lite to enable offline devices. I’ve created a Java process that is running an instance of Lite, and can receive queries constructed by Ottoman as a string, but Lite doesn’t seem to be able to take strings as input for executing queries.

Is there a way to do this? Or some other way to construct queries that CBL on Java can accept? Hard coding every query using the query builder in Java is a lot less elegant than something that can build a query based on certain input and I’m reluctant to duplicate a lot of previously written work.

Any input would be great.

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In what syntax?

Lite doesn’t seem to be able to take strings as input for executing queries.

Specifying queries as N1QL strings is something we’re working on for a future release, but it’s not yet possible.

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Based on nothing more than glancing at them, the Ottoman queries seem to be N1Ql.

Is there a better way to construct queries based on criteria without hard-coding them in? The query builder in Java CBL is rather clunky and any mention of this topic I’ve come across is a couple years old, so I’m unsure if there is a more modern solution