Javascript promise to iterate/include dynamic number of Arguments - node.js

Question

I'm using the mssql npm module (with Tedious driver) to read/write to Azure Sql database from my node Server. https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql
All the examples I've found provide an hardcoded example of the query whether to read or write records, like this:
var insertRecordIntoTable = function (callback) {
sql.connect(dbConfig).then(pool => {
return pool.request()
.input('ID', sql.Int, 210)
.input('Name', sql.NVarChar, "John Doe")
.input('EmailAddress', sql.NVarChar, "test#test.com")
.query("INSERT INTO Accounts (ID, Name, EmailAddress) VALUES (#ID, #Name, #EmailAddress)")
}).then(result => {
console.dir(result)
callback(result);
}).catch(err => {
// ... error checks
console.log("Error occured: " + err);
callback(err);
});
}
Obviously, I'd like to write one standard method to write records to any table in the database.
Now I can fetch structure of each table and use that to find how what datatype each field should be from the key in jsonRecord and write something like this:
var insertRecordIntoTable = function (jsonRecord, tableName, callback) {
let arrKeys = jsonRecord.allKeys();
let columnNames = getCommaSeparatedColumnNames(arrKeys);
let valuePlaceholders = getValuePlaceholdersForSql(arrKeys);
sql.connect(dbConfig).then(pool => {
return pool.request()
// how do I write something like this so that dynamic number of fields and values get populated in the query inside this promise.
// I'm open to methods without promise as well.
for(let x=0; x < arrKeys.length; x++){
let key = arrKeys[x];
// .input('ID', sql.Int, 210)
.input(key, getTypeForKey(key, tableName), jsonRecord[ key ] )
}
.query("INSERT INTO " + tableName + " (" + columnNames + ") VALUES (" + valuePlaceholders + ")")
}).then(result => {
console.dir(result)
callback(result);
}).catch(err => {
// ... error checks
console.log("Error occured: " + err);
callback(err);
});
}
function getTypeForKey(key){. // looks up table schema and returns keyType }
function getCommaSeparatedColumnNames(arrKeys){ return arrKeys.join(", "); }
function getValuePlaceholdersForSql(arrKeys){ // write code to append '#' before every key and then join using comma's and return that string }
I'm sure node.js writing to SQL is a fairly common functionality and there may be better ways to achieve what I'm trying to do here. Please feel free to go a different route.
P.S. - Although I should say that I prefer mssql over Tedious package. It just seems better in functionality after going through the documentation in the last several hours.

Answer 1

If you want to interact with your database without creating all the queries by yourself, you can use a query builder like knex to manage the data as objects:
knex('Accounts').insert({ID: 210, Name: "John Doe", EmailAddress: "test#test.com"})
Would be similar to:
insert into `Accounts` (`EmailAddress`, `ID`, `Name`) values ('test#test.com', 210, 'John Doe')
Also I see you are checking types. If you need validation, maybe a complete ORM (I like Objection.js) would be a good choice.