Is there a neater way of creating this payload?

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Hi

I am creating table in a database, originally it was one long line ,
I wanted to make it clearer to understand as I do not like one long line of text.
I have made a function node with this, it works but is there a better and neater way
As I have lots of commas and pluses ?

msg.payload = 
	
	"CREATE TABLE sensors (" +
	"serial_no	 SERIAL PRIMARY KEY," +
	"device      TEXT not null," +
	"device_data JSON not null );"

return msg;
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You could use a template string, as sql statement can be on multiple lines

msg.payload = `CREATE TABLE sensors (
  serial_no   SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
  device      TEXT not null,
  device_data JSON not null 
);`

The quotes are backticks

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I believe that will generate a mulit-line string with Return characters in it.

@questuk you can do this if you prefer it

msg.payload = "CREATE TABLE sensors ( \
  serial_no   SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,  \
  device      TEXT not null, \
  device_data JSON not null );"

Edit: I see that @E1cid acknowledged that and says that an SQL statement can include embedded return characters. He may well be correct.

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Hi, E1cid

Yes that works ... thank you and colin, I thought it should be something like that.
I did have that exact layout of text, but it would fail.

I was using ' ' and not `` very subtle but makes or breaks code :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you both very much for your help, that code will be added to my " cheat sheet " for future reference.
:+1:

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I like to use the template node for blocks of text like this -- any text you put into the multi-line editor will be added to msg.payload with the newlines intact. And since SQL statements can contain newlines, this should just work without using any javascript code.

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Please note that this is NOT the ui_template node... and if you want to insert incoming msg values into your text, it also support moustache (sic ;*) syntax like {{payload.tablename}}.

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Thanks shrickus

That is even better, no back ticks to worry about, I am going to use mustache :slightly_smiling_face:

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And you can set the Syntax Highlight dropdown to SQL :sunglasses:

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True - what you see is what you get... but if you do use "mustache" syntax to insert data into that DDL string, don't forget to use the triple braces i.e. {{{payload.tablename}}} to stop any potential html character encoding!

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