Introduce a mechanism for adding third-party AskVM resources

[czerwinskilukasz1]

Some of the resources on AskVM are built-in (like if, call or query), some of them are defined in source code running the server, but there is no good way to add third-party packages of resources without modifying the existing source code. Resources like:

• database access
• Facebook / GitHub / any other service API client
• payment providers
• etc.

What kind of solution would you suggest? Ideas from all readers are welcome :)

[mhagmajer]

@czerwinskilukasz1 here's how you can add a third-party AskVM resource:

const askql = require("askql");
const { resource } = askql.askvm;

(async () => {
  const result = await askql.runUntyped(
    {
      resources: {
        ...askql.askvm.resources,
        env: resource({
          resolver() {
            return process.env;
          },
        }),
      },
    },
    askql.parse("ask { env:at('PATH') }")
  );

  console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
})();

I have just tested it with the production version 1.0.2