---
title: "dgraph-dql"
type: docs
weight: 1
description: >
A "dgraph-dql" tool executes a pre-defined DQL statement against a Dgraph
database.
aliases:
- /resources/tools/dgraph-dql
---
{{< notice note >}}
**⚠️ Best Effort Maintenance**
This integration is maintained on a best-effort basis by the project
team/community. While we strive to address issues and provide workarounds when
resources are available, there are no guaranteed response times or code fixes.
The automated integration tests for this module are currently non-functional or
failing.
{{< /notice >}}
## About
A `dgraph-dql` tool executes a pre-defined DQL statement against a Dgraph
database. It's compatible with any of the following sources:
- [dgraph](../../sources/dgraph.md)
To run a statement as a query, you need to set the config `isQuery=true`. For
upserts or mutations, set `isQuery=false`. You can also configure timeout for a
query.
> **Note:** This tool uses parameterized queries to prevent SQL injections.
> Query parameters can be used as substitutes for arbitrary expressions.
> Parameters cannot be used as substitutes for identifiers, column names, table
> names, or other parts of the query.
## Example
{{< tabpane persist="header" >}}
{{< tab header="Query" lang="yaml" >}}
kind: tools
name: search_user
type: dgraph-dql
source: my-dgraph-source
statement: |
query all($role: string){
users(func: has(name)) @filter(eq(role, $role) AND ge(age, 30) AND le(age, 50)) {
uid
name
email
role
age
}
}
isQuery: true
timeout: 20s
description: |
Use this tool to retrieve the details of users who are admins and are between 30 and 50 years old.
The query returns the user's name, email, role, and age.
This can be helpful when you want to fetch admin users within a specific age range.
Example: Fetch admins aged between 30 and 50:
[
{
"name": "Alice",
"role": "admin",
"age": 35
},
{
"name": "Bob",
"role": "admin",
"age": 45
}
]
parameters:
- name: $role
type: string
description: admin
{{< /tab >}}
{{< tab header="Mutation" lang="yaml" >}}
kind: tools
name: dgraph-manage-user-instance
type: dgraph-dql
source: my-dgraph-source
isQuery: false
statement: |
{
set {
_:user1 <name> $user1 .
_:user1 <email> $email1 .
_:user1 <role> "admin" .
_:user1 <age> "35" .
_:user2 <name> $user2 .
_:user2 <email> $email2 .
_:user2 <role> "admin" .
_:user2 <age> "45" .
}
}
description: |
Use this tool to insert or update user data into the Dgraph database.
The mutation adds or updates user details like name, email, role, and age.
Example: Add users Alice and Bob as admins with specific ages.
parameters:
- name: user1
type: string
description: Alice
- name: email1
type: string
description: alice@email.com
- name: user2
type: string
description: Bob
- name: email2
type: string
description: bob@email.com
{{< /tab >}}
{{< /tabpane >}}
## Reference
| **field** | **type** | **required** | **description** |
|-------------|:---------------------------------------:|:------------:|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| type | string | true | Must be "dgraph-dql". |
| source | string | true | Name of the source the dql query should execute on. |
| description | string | true | Description of the tool that is passed to the LLM. |
| statement | string | true | dql statement to execute |
| isQuery | boolean | false | To run statement as query set true otherwise false |
| timeout | string | false | To set timeout for query |
| parameters | [parameters](../#specifying-parameters) | false | List of [parameters](../#specifying-parameters) that will be used with the dql statement. |
