Read documents with WOQL

What you'll achieve By the end of this guide, you will know how to read and retrieve documents using WOQL queries.

Prerequisites: TerminusDB running on localhost:6363 with the Star Wars dataset cloned. If you haven't done this yet, follow the Explore a Real Dataset tutorial (Steps 1–2), or run:
curl -u admin:root -X POST http://localhost:6363/api/clone/admin/star-wars \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization-Remote: Basic cHVibGljOnB1YmxpYw==" \
  -d '{"remote_url": "https://data.terminusdb.org/public/star-wars", "label": "Star Wars", "comment": "Star Wars dataset"}'

You can read a document after finding the document id as follows:

Example: JavaScript

let v = Vars("doc", "id");
and(isa(v.id, "People"),
    triple(v.id, "label", string("Bossk")),
    read_document(v.id, v.doc))

This finds a People document, makes sure it has the label "Bossk" and then reads the document into the variable doc.

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