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SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaORM 0.11.0!

Data Loader​

[#1443, #1238] The LoaderTrait provides an API to load related entities in batches.

Consider this one to many relation:

let cake_with_fruits: Vec<(cake::Model, Vec<fruit::Model>)> = Cake::find()
.find_with_related(Fruit)
.all(db)
.await?;

The generated SQL is:

SELECT
"cake"."id" AS "A_id",
"cake"."name" AS "A_name",
"fruit"."id" AS "B_id",
"fruit"."name" AS "B_name",
"fruit"."cake_id" AS "B_cake_id"
FROM "cake"
LEFT JOIN "fruit" ON "cake"."id" = "fruit"."cake_id"
ORDER BY "cake"."id" ASC

The 1 side's (Cake) data will be duplicated. If N is a large number, this would results in more data being transferred over the wire. Using the Loader would ensure each model is transferred only once.

The following loads the same data as above, but with two queries:

let cakes: Vec<cake::Model> = Cake::find().all(db).await?;
let fruits: Vec<Vec<fruit::Model>> = cakes.load_many(Fruit, db).await?;

for (cake, fruits) in cakes.into_iter().zip(fruits.into_iter()) { .. }
SELECT "cake"."id", "cake"."name" FROM "cake"
SELECT "fruit"."id", "fruit"."name", "fruit"."cake_id" FROM "fruit" WHERE "fruit"."cake_id" IN (..)

You can even apply filters on the related entity:

let fruits_in_stock: Vec<Vec<fruit::Model>> = cakes.load_many(
fruit::Entity::find().filter(fruit::Column::Stock.gt(0i32))
db
).await?;
SELECT "fruit"."id", "fruit"."name", "fruit"."cake_id" FROM "fruit"
WHERE "fruit"."stock" > 0 AND "fruit"."cake_id" IN (..)

To learn more, read the relation docs.

Transaction Isolation Level and Access Mode​

[#1230] The transaction_with_config and begin_with_config allows you to specify the IsolationLevel and AccessMode.

For now, they are only implemented for MySQL and Postgres. In order to align their semantic difference, MySQL will execute SET TRANSACTION commands before begin transaction, while Postgres will execute SET TRANSACTION commands after begin transaction.

db.transaction_with_config::<_, _, DbErr>(
|txn| { ... },
Some(IsolationLevel::ReadCommitted),
Some(AccessMode::ReadOnly),
)
.await?;

let transaction = db
.begin_with_config(IsolationLevel::ReadCommitted, AccessMode::ReadOnly)
.await?;

To learn more, read the transaction docs.

Cast Column Type on Select and Save​

[#1304] If you need to select a column as one type but save it into the database as another, you can specify the select_as and the save_as attributes to perform the casting. A typical use case is selecting a column of type citext (case-insensitive text) as String in Rust and saving it into the database as citext. One should define the model field as below:

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "ci_table")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
#[sea_orm(select_as = "text", save_as = "citext")]
pub case_insensitive_text: String
}

#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, EnumIter, DeriveRelation)]
pub enum Relation {}

impl ActiveModelBehavior for ActiveModel {}

Changes to ActiveModelBehavior​

[#1328, #1145] The methods of ActiveModelBehavior now have Connection as an additional parameter. It enables you to perform database operations, for example, logging the changes made to the existing model or validating the data before inserting it.

#[async_trait]
impl ActiveModelBehavior for ActiveModel {
/// Create a new ActiveModel with default values. Also used by `Default::default()`.
fn new() -> Self {
Self {
uuid: Set(Uuid::new_v4()),
..ActiveModelTrait::default()
}
}

/// Will be triggered before insert / update
async fn before_save<C>(self, db: &C, insert: bool) -> Result<Self, DbErr>
where
C: ConnectionTrait,
{
// Logging changes
edit_log::ActiveModel {
action: Set("before_save".into()),
values: Set(serde_json::json!(model)),
..Default::default()
}
.insert(db)
.await?;

Ok(self)
}
}

To learn more, read the entity docs.

Execute Unprepared SQL Statement​

[#1327] You can execute an unprepared SQL statement with ConnectionTrait::execute_unprepared.

// Use `execute_unprepared` if the SQL statement doesn't have value bindings
db.execute_unprepared(
"CREATE TABLE `cake` (
`id` int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL
)"
)
.await?;

// Construct a `Statement` if the SQL contains value bindings
let stmt = Statement::from_sql_and_values(
manager.get_database_backend(),
r#"INSERT INTO `cake` (`name`) VALUES (?)"#,
["Cheese Cake".into()]
);
db.execute(stmt).await?;

Select Into Tuple​

[#1311] You can select a tuple (or single value) with the into_tuple method.

let res: Vec<(String, i64)> = cake::Entity::find()
.select_only()
.column(cake::Column::Name)
.column(cake::Column::Id.count())
.group_by(cake::Column::Name)
.into_tuple()
.all(&db)
.await?;

Atomic Migration​

[#1379] Migration will be executed in Postgres atomically that means migration scripts will be executed inside a transaction. Changes done to the database will be rolled back if the migration failed. However, atomic migration is not supported in MySQL and SQLite.

You can start a transaction inside each migration to perform operations like seeding sample data for a newly created table.

Types Support​

  • [#1325] Support various UUID formats that are available in uuid::fmt module
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "uuid_fmt")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub uuid: Uuid,
pub uuid_braced: uuid::fmt::Braced,
pub uuid_hyphenated: uuid::fmt::Hyphenated,
pub uuid_simple: uuid::fmt::Simple,
pub uuid_urn: uuid::fmt::Urn,
}
  • [#1210] Support vector of enum for Postgres
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, EnumIter, DeriveActiveEnum)]
#[sea_orm(rs_type = "String", db_type = "Enum", enum_name = "tea")]
pub enum Tea {
#[sea_orm(string_value = "EverydayTea")]
EverydayTea,
#[sea_orm(string_value = "BreakfastTea")]
BreakfastTea,
}

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "enum_vec")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub teas: Vec<Tea>,
pub teas_opt: Option<Vec<Tea>>,
}
  • [#1414] Support ActiveEnum field as primary key
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "enum_primary_key")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key, auto_increment = false)]
pub id: Tea,
pub category: Option<Category>,
pub color: Option<Color>,
}

Opt-in Unstable Internal APIs​

By enabling sea-orm-internal feature you opt-in unstable internal APIs including:

Breaking Changes​

  • [#1366] sea-query has been upgraded to 0.28.x, which comes with some improvements and breaking changes. Please follow the release notes for more details

  • [#1420] sea-orm-cli: generate entity command enable --universal-time flag by default

  • [#1425] Added RecordNotInserted and RecordNotUpdated to DbErr

  • [#1327] Added ConnectionTrait::execute_unprepared method

  • [#1311] The required method of TryGetable changed:

// then
fn try_get(res: &QueryResult, pre: &str, col: &str) -> Result<Self, TryGetError>;
// now; ColIdx can be `&str` or `usize`
fn try_get_by<I: ColIdx>(res: &QueryResult, index: I) -> Result<Self, TryGetError>;

So if you implemented it yourself:

impl TryGetable for XXX {
- fn try_get(res: &QueryResult, pre: &str, col: &str) -> Result<Self, TryGetError> {
+ fn try_get_by<I: sea_orm::ColIdx>(res: &QueryResult, idx: I) -> Result<Self, TryGetError> {
- let value: YYY = res.try_get(pre, col).map_err(TryGetError::DbErr)?;
+ let value: YYY = res.try_get_by(idx).map_err(TryGetError::DbErr)?;
..
}
}
  • [#1328] The ActiveModelBehavior trait becomes async trait. If you overridden the default ActiveModelBehavior implementation:
#[async_trait::async_trait]
impl ActiveModelBehavior for ActiveModel {
async fn before_save<C>(self, db: &C, insert: bool) -> Result<Self, DbErr>
where
C: ConnectionTrait,
{
// ...
}

// ...
}
  • [#1425] DbErr::RecordNotFound("None of the database rows are affected") is moved to a dedicated error variant DbErr::RecordNotUpdated
let res = Update::one(cake::ActiveModel {
name: Set("Cheese Cake".to_owned()),
..model.into_active_model()
})
.exec(&db)
.await;

// then
assert_eq!(
res,
Err(DbErr::RecordNotFound(
"None of the database rows are affected".to_owned()
))
);

// now
assert_eq!(res, Err(DbErr::RecordNotUpdated));
  • [#1395] sea_orm::ColumnType was replaced by sea_query::ColumnType
    • Method ColumnType::def was moved to ColumnTypeTrait
    • ColumnType::Binary becomes a tuple variant which takes in additional option sea_query::BlobSize
    • ColumnType::Custom takes a sea_query::DynIden instead of String and thus a new method custom is added (note the lowercase)
// Compact Entity
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "fruit")]
pub struct Model {
- #[sea_orm(column_type = r#"Custom("citext".to_owned())"#)]
+ #[sea_orm(column_type = r#"custom("citext")"#)]
pub column: String,
}
// Expanded Entity
impl ColumnTrait for Column {
type EntityName = Entity;

fn def(&self) -> ColumnDef {
match self {
- Self::Column => ColumnType::Custom("citext".to_owned()).def(),
+ Self::Column => ColumnType::custom("citext").def(),
}
}
}

SeaORM Enhancements​

  • [#1256] Refactor schema module to expose functions for database alteration
  • [#1346] Generate compact entity with #[sea_orm(column_type = "JsonBinary")] macro attribute
  • MockDatabase::append_exec_results(), MockDatabase::append_query_results(), MockDatabase::append_exec_errors() and MockDatabase::append_query_errors() [#1367] take any types implemented IntoIterator trait
  • [#1362] find_by_id and delete_by_id take any Into primary key value
  • [#1410] QuerySelect::offset and QuerySelect::limit takes in Into<Option<u64>> where None would reset them
  • [#1236] Added DatabaseConnection::close
  • [#1381] Added is_null getter for ColumnDef
  • [#1177] Added ActiveValue::reset to convert Unchanged into Set
  • [#1415] Added QueryTrait::apply_if to optionally apply a filter
  • Added the sea-orm-internal feature flag to expose some SQLx types
    • [#1297] Added DatabaseConnection::get_*_connection_pool() for accessing the inner SQLx connection pool
    • [#1434] Re-exporting SQLx errors

CLI Enhancements​

  • [#846, #1186, #1318] Generate #[serde(skip_deserializing)] for primary key columns
  • [#1171, #1320] Generate #[serde(skip)] for hidden columns
  • [#1124, #1321] Generate entity with extra derives and attributes for model struct

Integration Examples​

SeaORM plays well with the other crates in the async ecosystem. We maintain an array of example projects for building REST, GraphQL and gRPC services. More examples wanted!

Our GitHub Sponsor profile is up! SeaQL.org is an independent open-source organization run by passionate developers. If you enjoy using SeaORM, please star and share our repositories. If you feel generous, a small donation will be greatly appreciated, and goes a long way towards sustaining the project.

A big shout out to our sponsors πŸ˜‡:

Afonso Barracha
Γ‰mile Fugulin
Dean Sheather
Shane Sveller
Sakti Dwi Cahyono
Nick Price
Roland GorΓ‘cz
Henrik Giesel
Jacob Trueb
Naoki Ikeguchi
Manfred Lee
Marcus Buffett
efrain2007

What's Next?​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and build together for Rust's future.

Here is the roadmap for SeaORM 0.12.x.

Β· 2 min read
Chris Tsang

FAQ.02 Why the empty enum Relation {} is needed even if an Entity has no relations?​

Consider the following example Post Entity:

use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "posts")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub title: String,
pub text: String,
}

#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, EnumIter, DeriveRelation)]
pub enum Relation {}

impl ActiveModelBehavior for ActiveModel {}

The two lines for defining Relation is quite unnecessary right?

To explain the problem, let's dive slightly deeper into the macro-expanded entity:

The DeriveRelation macro simply implements the RelationTrait:

impl RelationTrait for Relation {
fn def(&self) -> RelationDef {
match self {
_ => unreachable!()
}
}
}

Which in turn is needed by EntityTrait as an associated type:

impl EntityTrait for Entity {
type Relation = Relation;
...
}

It would be ideal if, when the user does not specify this associated type, the library automatically fills in a stub to satisfy the type system?

Turns out, there is such a feature in Rust! It is an unstable feature called associated_type_defaults.

Basically, it allows trait definitions to specify a default associated type, allowing it to be elided:

// only compiles in nightly
trait EntityTrait {
type Relation: Relation = EmptyRelation;
}

Due to our commitment to stable Rust, this may not land in SeaORM very soon. When it is stabilized, do remind us to implement this feature to get rid of those two lines!

Β· 4 min read
SeaQL Team

SeaQL.org offer internships tailored to university students. In fact, it will be the 3rd cohort in 2023.

The internships normally take place during summer and winter semester breaks. During the internship period, you will work on a project dedicatedly and publish the project’s outcome at the end.

The striking aspect of our mode of operation is it covers the entire lifecycle of software development, from Design ➑️ Implementation ➑️ Testing ➑️ Delivery. You will be amazed of how much you can achieve in such a short period of time!

To date StarfishQL ✴️ and Seaography 🧭 are great projects our team has created in the past year. We pride ourselves on careful planning, consistent execution, and pragmatic approach in software engineering. I spend a huge amount of time on idea evaluation: if the scope of the project is too small, it will be uninteresting, but if it is too large, it will fail to be delivered.

Fellow undergraduates, here are a few good reasons why you should participate in internships at an open-source organization like SeaQL:

  1. A tangible showcase on CV: open-source work is published, inspectable and has real-world impact. We will also ensure that it has good branding, graphics, and visibility.
  2. Not driven by a business process, we do not compromise on quality of work. We do not have a proprietary development process, so it’s all open-source tools with transferable skills.
  3. You will contribute to the community and will interact with people across the world. Collaboration on open source is the best thing humanity ever invented. You will only believe me when you have experienced it first-hand.
  4. Because you are the driver of the project you work on, it allows you to uncover something more about yourself, in particular - abilities and discipline: you always have had under/over-estimated yourself in one aspect or another.

Here are several things you are going to learn:

  1. "Thinking > Programming": the more time you spend on thinking beforehand, the better the code you are going to write. And the more time you spend on reviewing afterwards, the better the code is going to be.
  2. How to organize a codebase. Make good use of the Rust type system to craft a modular, testable codebase.
  3. Test automation. Every SeaQL project is continuously tested, and this is an integral part of our engineering process.
  4. Documentation. Our software aims to provide good documentation that is comprehensive, easy to follow, and fun to read.
  5. Performance tuning. Depending on the project, we might do some benchmarking and optimization. But in general we put you off from writing code that creates unnecessary overhead.

We were a mentor organization in GSoC 2022 and may be in 2023 (update: we were not accepted into GSoC 2023). We also offer internships outside of GSoC. So, what are the requirements when you become a contributor?

  1. Be passionate. You must show your passion in open-source and software engineering, so a good GitHub profile with some participation is needed.
  2. Be dedicated. This is a full-time job. While being fully remote and flexible on hours, you must have no other commitment or duties during the stipulated internship period.
  3. Be open-minded. You should listen carefully to your mentors and act on their advice accordingly.
  4. Write more. Communicate your thoughts and progress on all channels in an organized manner.

Don’t just listen to me though. Here is what our past interns says:

Be well-prepared for your upcoming career in this technology industry! Follow us on GitHub and Twitter now, and stay tuned for future announcements.

Β· 4 min read
Chris Tsang

We are calling for contributors and reviewers for SeaQL projects πŸ“’!

The SeaQL userbase has been steadily growing in the past year, and it’s a pleasure for us to have helped individuals and start-ups to build their projects in Rust. However, the volume of questions, issues and pull requests is nearly saturating our core members’ capacity.

But again, thank you everyone for participating in the community!

If your project depends on SeaQL and you want to help us, here are some suggestions (if you have not already, star all our repositories and follow us on Twitter):

  1. Financial Contribution. You can sponsor us on GitHub and those will be used to cover our expenses. As a courtesy, we listen to our sponsors for their needs and use cases, and we also communicate our organizational development from time-to-time.
  2. Code Contribution. Opening a PR with us is always appreciated! To get started, you can go through our issue trackers and pick one to handle. If you are thinking of developing a substantial feature, start with drafting a "Proposal & Implementation Plan" (PIP).
  3. Knowledge Contribution. There are various formats of knowledge sharing: tutorial, cookbook, QnA and Discord. You can open PRs to our documentation repositories or publish on your own. We will be happy to list it in our learning resources section. Keep an eye on our GitHub Discussions and Discord and help others where you can!
  4. Code Review. This is an important process of our engineering. Right now, only 3 of our core members serve as reviewers. Non-core members can also become reviewers and I invite you to become one!

Now, I’d like to outline our review policy: for maturing projects, each PR merged has to be approved by at least two reviewers and one of them must be a core member; self-review allowed. Here are some examples:

  • A core member opened a PR, another core member approved βœ…
  • A core member opened a PR, a reviewer approved βœ…
  • A reviewer opened a PR, a core member approved βœ…
  • A reviewer opened a PR, another reviewer approved β›”
  • A contributor opened a PR, 2 core members approved βœ…
  • A contributor opened a PR, a core member and a reviewer approved βœ…
  • A contributor opened a PR, 2 reviewers approved β›”

In a nutshell, at least two pairs of trusted eyes should have gone through each PR.

What are the criteria when reviewing a PR?​

The following questions should all be answered yes.

  1. Implementation, documentation and tests
    1. Is the implementation easy to follow (have meaningful variable and function names)?
    2. Is there sufficient document to the API?
    3. Are there adequate tests covering various cases?
  2. API design
    1. Is the API self-documenting so users can understand its use easily?
    2. Is the API style consistent with our existing API?
    3. Does the API made reasonable use of the type system to enforce constraints?
    4. Are the failure paths and error messages clear?
    5. Are all breaking changes justified and documented?
  3. Functionality
    1. Does the feature make sense in computer science terms?
    2. Does the feature actually work with all our supported backends?
    3. Are all caveats discussed and eliminated / documented?
  4. Architecture
    1. Does it fit with the existing architecture of our codebase?
    2. Is it not going to create technical debt / maintenance burden?
    3. Does it not break abstraction?

1, 2 & 3 are fairly objective and factual, however the answers to 4 probably require some discussion and debate. If a consensus cannot be made, @tyt2y3 will make the final verdict.

Who are the current reviewers?​

As of today, SeaQL has 3 core members who are also reviewers:

Chris Tsang
Founder. Maintains all projects.
Billy Chan
Founding member. Co-maintainer of SeaORM and Seaography.
Ivan Krivosheev
Joined in 2022. Co-maintainer of SeaQuery.

How to become a reviewer?​

We are going to invite a few contributors we worked closely with, but you can also volunteer – the requirement is: you have made substantial code contribution to our projects, and has shown familiarity with our engineering practices.

Over time, when you have made significant contribution to our organization, you can also become a core member.

Let’s build for Rust's future together πŸ¦€β€‹

Β· 4 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaQuery 0.28.0! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

New IdenStatic trait for static identifier​

[#508] Representing a identifier with &'static str. The IdenStatic trait looks like this:

pub trait IdenStatic: Iden + Copy + 'static {
fn as_str(&self) -> &'static str;
}

You can derive it easily for your existing Iden. Just changing the #[derive(Iden)] into #[derive(IdenStatic)].

#[derive(IdenStatic)]
enum User {
Table,
Id,
FirstName,
LastName,
#[iden = "_email"]
Email,
}

assert_eq!(User::Email.as_str(), "_email");

New PgExpr and SqliteExpr traits for backend specific expressions​

[#519] Postgres specific and SQLite specific expressions are being moved into its corresponding trait. You need to import the trait into scope before construct the expression with those backend specific methods.

// Importing `PgExpr` trait before constructing Postgres expression
use sea_query::{extension::postgres::PgExpr, tests_cfg::*, *};

let query = Query::select()
.columns([Font::Name, Font::Variant, Font::Language])
.from(Font::Table)
.and_where(Expr::val("a").concatenate("b").concat("c").concat("d"))
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT "name", "variant", "language" FROM "font" WHERE 'a' || 'b' || 'c' || 'd'"#
);
// Importing `SqliteExpr` trait before constructing SQLite expression
use sea_query::{extension::sqlite::SqliteExpr, tests_cfg::*, *};

let query = Query::select()
.column(Font::Name)
.from(Font::Table)
.and_where(Expr::col(Font::Name).matches("a"))
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(SqliteQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT "name" FROM "font" WHERE "name" MATCH 'a'"#
);

Bug Fixes​

// given
let (statement, values) = sea_query::Query::select()
.column(Glyph::Id)
.from(Glyph::Table)
.cond_where(Cond::any()
.add(Cond::all()) // empty all() => TRUE
.add(Cond::any()) // empty any() => FALSE
)
.build(sea_query::MysqlQueryBuilder);

// old behavior
assert_eq!(statement, r#"SELECT `id` FROM `glyph`"#);

// new behavior
assert_eq!(
statement,
r#"SELECT `id` FROM `glyph` WHERE (TRUE) OR (FALSE)"#
);

// a complex example
let (statement, values) = Query::select()
.column(Glyph::Id)
.from(Glyph::Table)
.cond_where(
Cond::all()
.add(Cond::all().not())
.add(Cond::any().not())
.not(),
)
.build(MysqlQueryBuilder);

assert_eq!(
statement,
r#"SELECT `id` FROM `glyph` WHERE NOT ((NOT TRUE) AND (NOT FALSE))"#
);

Breaking Changes​

  • [#535] MSRV is up to 1.62
# Make sure you're running SeaQuery with Rust 1.62+ πŸ¦€
$ rustup update
  • [#492] ColumnType::Array definition changed from Array(SeaRc<Box<ColumnType>>) to Array(SeaRc<ColumnType>)
  • [#475] Func::* now returns FunctionCall instead of SimpleExpr
  • [#475] Func::coalesce now accepts IntoIterator<Item = SimpleExpr> instead of IntoIterator<Item = Into<SimpleExpr>
  • [#475] Removed Expr::arg and Expr::args - these functions are no longer needed
  • [#507] Moved all Postgres specific operators to PgBinOper
  • [#476] Expr methods used to accepts Into<Value> now accepts Into<SimpleExpr>
  • [#476] Expr::is_in, Expr::is_not_in now accepts Into<SimpleExpr> instead of Into<Value> and convert it to SimpleExpr::Tuple instead of SimpleExpr::Values
  • [#475] Expr::expr now accepts Into<SimpleExpr> instead of SimpleExpr
  • [#519] Moved Postgres specific Expr methods to new trait PgExpr
  • [#528] Expr::equals now accepts C: IntoColumnRef instead of T: IntoIden, C: IntoIden
use sea_query::{*, tests_cfg::*};

let query = Query::select()
.columns([Char::Character, Char::SizeW, Char::SizeH])
.from(Char::Table)
.and_where(
Expr::col((Char::Table, Char::FontId))
- .equals(Font::Table, Font::Id)
+ .equals((Font::Table, Font::Id))
)
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(MysqlQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT `character`, `size_w`, `size_h` FROM `character` WHERE `character`.`font_id` = `font`.`id`"#
);
  • [#525] Removed integer and date time column types' display length / precision option

API Additions​

  • [#475] Added SelectStatement::from_function
use sea_query::{tests_cfg::*, *};

let query = Query::select()
.column(ColumnRef::Asterisk)
.from_function(Func::random(), Alias::new("func"))
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(MysqlQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT * FROM RAND() AS `func`"#
);
  • [#486] Added binary operators from the Postgres pg_trgm extension
use sea_query::extension::postgres::PgBinOper;

assert_eq!(
Query::select()
.expr(Expr::col(Font::Name).binary(PgBinOper::WordSimilarity, Expr::value("serif")))
.from(Font::Table)
.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT "name" <% 'serif' FROM "font""#
);
  • [#473] Added ILIKE and NOT ILIKE operators
  • [#510] Added the mul and div methods for SimpleExpr
  • [#513] Added the MATCH, -> and ->> operators for SQLite
use sea_query::extension::sqlite::SqliteBinOper;

assert_eq!(
Query::select()
.column(Char::Character)
.from(Char::Table)
.and_where(Expr::col(Char::Character).binary(SqliteBinOper::Match, Expr::val("test")))
.build(SqliteQueryBuilder),
(
r#"SELECT "character" FROM "character" WHERE "character" MATCH ?"#.to_owned(),
Values(vec!["test".into()])
)
);
  • [#497] Added the FULL OUTER JOIN
  • [#530] Added PgFunc::get_random_uuid
  • [#528] Added SimpleExpr::eq, SimpleExpr::ne, Expr::not_equals
  • [#529] Added PgFunc::starts_with
  • [#535] Added Expr::custom_keyword and SimpleExpr::not
use sea_query::*;

let query = Query::select()
.expr(Expr::custom_keyword(Alias::new("test")))
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(query.to_string(MysqlQueryBuilder), r#"SELECT test"#);
assert_eq!(query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder), r#"SELECT test"#);
assert_eq!(query.to_string(SqliteQueryBuilder), r#"SELECT test"#);
  • [#539] Added SimpleExpr::like, SimpleExpr::not_like and Expr::cast_as
  • [#532] Added support for NULLS NOT DISTINCT clause for Postgres
  • [#531] Added Expr::cust_with_expr and Expr::cust_with_exprs
use sea_query::{tests_cfg::*, *};

let query = Query::select()
.expr(Expr::cust_with_expr("data @? ($1::JSONPATH)", "hello"))
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT data @? ('hello'::JSONPATH)"#
);
  • [#538] Added support for converting &String to Value

Miscellaneous Enhancements​

  • [#475] New struct FunctionCall which hold function and arguments
  • [#503] Support BigDecimal, IpNetwork and MacAddress for sea-query-postgres
  • [#511] Made value::with_array module public and therefore making NotU8 trait public
  • [#524] Drop the Sized requirement on implementers of SchemaBuilders

Integration Examples​

SeaQuery plays well with the other crates in the rust ecosystem.

Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Β· 4 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release Seaography 0.3.0! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

Dependency Upgrade​

[#93] We have upgraded a major dependency:

You might need to upgrade the corresponding dependency in your application as well.

Support Self Referencing Relation​

[#99] You can now query self referencing models and the inverse of it.

Self referencing relation should be added to the Relation enum, note that the belongs_to attribute must be belongs_to = "Entity".

use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;

#[derive(
Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel,
async_graphql::SimpleObject, seaography::macros::Filter,
)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "staff")]
#[graphql(complex)]
#[graphql(name = "Staff")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub staff_id: i32,
pub first_name: String,
pub last_name: String,
pub reports_to_id: Option<i32>,
}

#[derive(
Copy, Clone, Debug, EnumIter, DeriveRelation,
seaography::macros::RelationsCompact
)]
pub enum Relation {
#[sea_orm(
belongs_to = "Entity",
from = "Column::ReportsToId",
to = "Column::StaffId",
)]
SelfRef,
}

impl ActiveModelBehavior for ActiveModel {}

Then, you can query the related models in GraphQL.

{
staff {
nodes {
firstName
reportsToId
selfRefReverse {
staffId
firstName
}
selfRef {
staffId
firstName
}
}
}
}

The resulting JSON

{
"staff": {
"nodes": [
{
"firstName": "Mike",
"reportsToId": null,
"selfRefReverse": [
{
"staffId": 2,
"firstName": "Jon"
}
],
"selfRef": null
},
{
"firstName": "Jon",
"reportsToId": 1,
"selfRefReverse": null,
"selfRef": {
"staffId": 1,
"firstName": "Mike"
}
}
]
}
}

Web Framework Generator​

[#74] You can generate seaography project with either Actix or Poem as the web server.

CLI Generator Option​

Run seaography-cli to generate seaography code with Actix or Poem as the web framework.

# The command take three arguments, generating project with Poem web framework by default
seaography-cli <DATABASE_URL> <CRATE_NAME> <DESTINATION>

# Generating project with Actix web framework
seaography-cli -f actix <DATABASE_URL> <CRATE_NAME> <DESTINATION>

# MySQL
seaography-cli mysql://root:root@localhost/sakila seaography-mysql-example examples/mysql
# PostgreSQL
seaography-cli postgres://root:root@localhost/sakila seaography-postgres-example examples/postgres
# SQLite
seaography-cli sqlite://examples/sqlite/sakila.db seaography-sqlite-example examples/sqliteql

Actix​

use async_graphql::{
dataloader::DataLoader,
http::{playground_source, GraphQLPlaygroundConfig},
EmptyMutation, EmptySubscription, Schema,
};
use async_graphql_actix_web::{GraphQLRequest, GraphQLResponse};
use sea_orm::Database;
use seaography_example_project::*;
// ...

async fn graphql_playground() -> Result<HttpResponse> {
Ok(HttpResponse::Ok()
.content_type("text/html; charset=utf-8")
.body(
playground_source(GraphQLPlaygroundConfig::new("http://localhost:8000"))
))
}

#[actix_web::main]
async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
// ...

let database = Database::connect(db_url).await.unwrap();
let orm_dataloader: DataLoader<OrmDataloader> = DataLoader::new(
OrmDataloader {
db: database.clone(),
},
tokio::spawn,
);

let schema = Schema::build(QueryRoot, EmptyMutation, EmptySubscription)
.data(database)
.data(orm_dataloader)
.finish();

let app = App::new()
.app_data(Data::new(schema.clone()))
.service(web::resource("/").guard(guard::Post()).to(index))
.service(web::resource("/").guard(guard::Get()).to(graphql_playground));

HttpServer::new(app)
.bind("127.0.0.1:8000")?
.run()
.await
}

Poem​

use async_graphql::{
dataloader::DataLoader,
http::{playground_source, GraphQLPlaygroundConfig},
EmptyMutation, EmptySubscription, Schema,
};
use async_graphql_poem::GraphQL;
use poem::{handler, listener::TcpListener, web::Html, IntoResponse, Route, Server};
use sea_orm::Database;
use seaography_example_project::*;
// ...

#[handler]
async fn graphql_playground() -> impl IntoResponse {
Html(playground_source(GraphQLPlaygroundConfig::new("/")))
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
// ...

let database = Database::connect(db_url).await.unwrap();
let orm_dataloader: DataLoader<OrmDataloader> = DataLoader::new(
OrmDataloader { db: database.clone() },
tokio::spawn,
);

let schema = Schema::build(QueryRoot, EmptyMutation, EmptySubscription)
.data(database)
.data(orm_dataloader)
.finish();

let app = Route::new()
.at("/", get(graphql_playground)
.post(GraphQL::new(schema)));

Server::new(TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:8000"))
.run(app)
.await
.unwrap();
}

[#84] Filtering, sorting and paginating related 1-to-many queries. Note that the pagination is work-in-progress, currently it is in memory pagination.

For example, find all inactive customers, include their address, and their payments with amount greater than 7 ordered by amount the second result. You can execute the query below at our GraphQL playground.

{
customer(
filters: { active: { eq: 0 } }
pagination: { cursor: { limit: 3, cursor: "Int[3]:271" } }
) {
nodes {
customerId
lastName
email
address {
address
}
payment(
filters: { amount: { gt: "7" } }
orderBy: { amount: ASC }
pagination: { pages: { limit: 1, page: 1 } }
) {
nodes {
paymentId
amount
}
pages
current
pageInfo {
hasPreviousPage
hasNextPage
}
}
}
pageInfo {
hasPreviousPage
hasNextPage
endCursor
}
}
}

Integration Examples​

We have the following examples for you, alongside with the SQL scripts to initialize the database.

Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Β· 7 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaORM 0.10.0!

Rust 1.65​

The long-anticipated Rust 1.65 has been released! Generic associated types (GATs) must be the hottest newly-stabilized feature.

How is GAT useful to SeaORM? Let's take a look at the following:

trait StreamTrait<'a>: Send + Sync {
type Stream: Stream<Item = Result<QueryResult, DbErr>> + Send;

fn stream(
&'a self,
stmt: Statement,
) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Result<Self::Stream, DbErr>> + 'a + Send>>;
}

You can see that the Future has a lifetime 'a, but as a side effect the lifetime is tied to StreamTrait.

With GAT, the lifetime can be elided:

trait StreamTrait: Send + Sync {
type Stream<'a>: Stream<Item = Result<QueryResult, DbErr>> + Send
where
Self: 'a;

fn stream<'a>(
&'a self,
stmt: Statement,
) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Result<Self::Stream<'a>, DbErr>> + 'a + Send>>;
}

What benefit does it bring in practice? Consider you have a function that accepts a generic ConnectionTrait and calls stream():

async fn processor<'a, C>(conn: &'a C) -> Result<...>
where C: ConnectionTrait + StreamTrait<'a> {...}

The fact that the lifetime of the connection is tied to the stream can create confusion to the compiler, most likely when you are making transactions:

async fn do_transaction<C>(conn: &C) -> Result<...>
where C: ConnectionTrait + TransactionTrait
{
let txn = conn.begin().await?;
processor(&txn).await?;
txn.commit().await?;
}

But now, with the lifetime of the stream elided, it's much easier to work on streams inside transactions because the two lifetimes are now distinct and the stream's lifetime is implicit:

async fn processor<C>(conn: &C) -> Result<...>
where C: ConnectionTrait + StreamTrait {...}

Big thanks to @nappa85 for the contribution.


Below are some feature highlights 🌟:

Support Array Data Types in Postgres​

[#1132] Support model field of type Vec<T>. (by @hf29h8sh321, @ikrivosheev, @tyt2y3, @billy1624)

You can define a vector of types that are already supported by SeaORM in the model.

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "collection")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub integers: Vec<i32>,
pub integers_opt: Option<Vec<i32>>,
pub floats: Vec<f32>,
pub doubles: Vec<f64>,
pub strings: Vec<String>,
}

Keep in mind that you need to enable the postgres-array feature and this is a Postgres only feature.

sea-orm = { version = "0.10", features = ["postgres-array", ...] }

Better Error Types​

[#750, #1002] Error types with parsable database specific error. (by @mohs8421, @tyt2y3)

let mud_cake = cake::ActiveModel {
id: Set(1),
name: Set("Moldy Cake".to_owned()),
price: Set(dec!(10.25)),
gluten_free: Set(false),
serial: Set(Uuid::new_v4()),
bakery_id: Set(None),
};

// Insert a new cake with its primary key (`id` column) set to 1.
let cake = mud_cake.save(db).await.expect("could not insert cake");

// Insert the same row again and it failed
// because primary key of each row should be unique.
let error: DbErr = cake
.into_active_model()
.insert(db)
.await
.expect_err("inserting should fail due to duplicate primary key");

match error {
DbErr::Exec(RuntimeErr::SqlxError(error)) => match error {
Error::Database(e) => {
// We check the error code thrown by the database (MySQL in this case),
// `23000` means `ER_DUP_KEY`: we have a duplicate key in the table.
assert_eq!(e.code().unwrap(), "23000");
}
_ => panic!("Unexpected sqlx-error kind"),
},
_ => panic!("Unexpected Error kind"),
}

Run Migration on Any Postgres Schema​

[#1056] By default migration will be run on the public schema, you can now override it when running migration on the CLI or programmatically. (by @MattGson, @nahuakang, @billy1624)

For CLI, you can specify the target schema with -s / --database_schema option:

  • via sea-orm-cli: sea-orm-cli migrate -u postgres://root:root@localhost/database -s my_schema
  • via SeaORM migrator: cargo run -- -u postgres://root:root@localhost/database -s my_schema

You can also run the migration on the target schema programmatically:

let connect_options = ConnectOptions::new("postgres://root:root@localhost/database".into())
.set_schema_search_path("my_schema".into()) // Override the default schema
.to_owned();

let db = Database::connect(connect_options).await?

migration::Migrator::up(&db, None).await?;

Breaking Changes​

enum ColumnType {
// then
Enum(String, Vec<String>)

// now
Enum {
/// Name of enum
name: DynIden,
/// Variants of enum
variants: Vec<DynIden>,
}
...
}
  • A new method array_type was added to ValueType:
impl sea_orm::sea_query::ValueType for MyType {
fn array_type() -> sea_orm::sea_query::ArrayType {
sea_orm::sea_query::ArrayType::TypeName
}
...
}
  • ActiveEnum::name() changed return type to DynIden:
#[derive(Debug, Iden)]
#[iden = "category"]
pub struct CategoryEnum;

impl ActiveEnum for Category {
// then
fn name() -> String {
"category".to_owned()
}

// now
fn name() -> DynIden {
SeaRc::new(CategoryEnum)
}
...
}

SeaORM Enhancements​

CLI Enhancements​

Please check here for the complete changelog.

Integration Examples​

SeaORM plays well with the other crates in the async ecosystem. We maintain an array of example projects for building REST, GraphQL and gRPC services. More examples wanted!

Our GitHub Sponsor profile is up! If you feel generous, a small donation will be greatly appreciated.

A big shout out to our sponsors πŸ˜‡:

Γ‰mile Fugulin
Dean Sheather
Shane Sveller
Sakti Dwi Cahyono
Henrik Giesel
Jacob Trueb
Marcus Buffett
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Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Here is the roadmap for SeaORM 0.11.x.

Β· 2 min read
SeaQL Team

Not long ago we opened a PR "Toggle stacked download graph #5010" resolving Convert download chart from stacked chart to regular chart #3876 for crates.io.

What's it all about?

Problem​

The download graph on crates.io used to be a stacked graph. With download count of older versions stack on top of newer versions. You might misinterpret the numbers. Consider this, at the first glance, it seems that version 0.9.2 has 1,500+ downloads on Nov 7. But in fact, it has only 237 downloads that day because the graph is showing the cumulative downloads.

crates.io Stacked Download Graph

This makes it hard to compare the download trend of different versions over time. Why this is important? You may ask. It's important to observe the adoption rate of newer version upon release. This paints a general picture if existing users are upgrading to newer version or not.

Solution​

The idea is simple but effective: having a dropdown to toggle between stacked and unstacked download graph. With this, one can switch between both display mode, comparing the download trend of different version and observing the most download version in the past 90 days are straightforward and intuitive.

crates.io Unstacked Download Graph

Conclusion​

This is a great tool for us to gauge the adoption rate of our new releases and we highly encourage user upgrading to newer release that contains feature updates and bug fixes.

Β· 5 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaQuery 0.27.0! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

Dependency Upgrade​

[#356] We have upgraded a major dependency:

  • Upgrade sqlx to 0.6.1

You might need to upgrade the corresponding dependency in your application as well.

Drivers support​

We have reworked the way drivers work in SeaQuery: priori to 0.27.0, users have to invoke the sea_query_driver_* macros. Now each driver sqlx, postgres & rusqlite has their own supporting crate, which integrates tightly with the corresponding libraries. Checkout our integration examples below for more details.

[#383] Deprecate sea-query-driver in favour of sea-query-binder

[#422] Rusqlite support is moved to sea-query-rusqlite

[#433] Postgres support is moved to sea-query-postgres

// before
sea_query::sea_query_driver_postgres!();
use sea_query_driver_postgres::{bind_query, bind_query_as};

let (sql, values) = Query::select()
.from(Character::Table)
.expr(Func::count(Expr::col(Character::Id)))
.build(PostgresQueryBuilder);

let row = bind_query(sqlx::query(&sql), &values)
.fetch_one(&mut pool)
.await
.unwrap();

// now
use sea_query_binder::SqlxBinder;

let (sql, values) = Query::select()
.from(Character::Table)
.expr(Func::count(Expr::col(Character::Id)))
.build_sqlx(PostgresQueryBuilder);

let row = sqlx::query_with(&sql, values)
.fetch_one(&mut pool)
.await
.unwrap();

// You can now make use of SQLx's `query_as_with` nicely:
let rows = sqlx::query_as_with::<_, StructWithFromRow, _>(&sql, values)
.fetch_all(&mut pool)
.await
.unwrap();

Support sub-query operators: EXISTS, ALL, ANY, SOME​

[#118] Added sub-query operators: EXISTS, ALL, ANY, SOME

let query = Query::select()
.column(Char::Id)
.from(Char::Table)
.and_where(
Expr::col(Char::Id)
.eq(
Expr::any(
Query::select().column(Char::Id).from(Char::Table).take()
)
)
)
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(MysqlQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT `id` FROM `character` WHERE `id` = ANY(SELECT `id` FROM `character`)"#
);
assert_eq!(
query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT "id" FROM "character" WHERE "id" = ANY(SELECT "id" FROM "character")"#
);

Support ON CONFLICT WHERE​

[#366] Added support to ON CONFLICT WHERE

let query = Query::insert()
.into_table(Glyph::Table)
.columns([Glyph::Aspect, Glyph::Image])
.values_panic(vec![
2.into(),
3.into(),
])
.on_conflict(
OnConflict::column(Glyph::Id)
.update_expr((Glyph::Image, Expr::val(1).add(2)))
.target_and_where(Expr::tbl(Glyph::Table, Glyph::Aspect).is_null())
.to_owned()
)
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(MysqlQueryBuilder),
r#"INSERT INTO `glyph` (`aspect`, `image`) VALUES (2, 3) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE `image` = 1 + 2"#
);
assert_eq!(
query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"INSERT INTO "glyph" ("aspect", "image") VALUES (2, 3) ON CONFLICT ("id") WHERE "glyph"."aspect" IS NULL DO UPDATE SET "image" = 1 + 2"#
);
assert_eq!(
query.to_string(SqliteQueryBuilder),
r#"INSERT INTO "glyph" ("aspect", "image") VALUES (2, 3) ON CONFLICT ("id") WHERE "glyph"."aspect" IS NULL DO UPDATE SET "image" = 1 + 2"#
);

Changed cond_where chaining semantics​

[#414] Changed cond_where chaining semantics

// Before: will extend current Condition
assert_eq!(
Query::select()
.cond_where(any![Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(1), Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(2)])
.cond_where(Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(3))
.to_owned()
.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT WHERE "id" = 1 OR "id" = 2 OR "id" = 3"#
);
// Before: confusing, since it depends on the order of invocation:
assert_eq!(
Query::select()
.cond_where(Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(3))
.cond_where(any![Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(1), Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(2)])
.to_owned()
.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT WHERE "id" = 3 AND ("id" = 1 OR "id" = 2)"#
);
// Now: will always conjoin with `AND`
assert_eq!(
Query::select()
.cond_where(Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(1))
.cond_where(any![Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(2), Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(3)])
.to_owned()
.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT WHERE "id" = 1 AND ("id" = 2 OR "id" = 3)"#
);
// Now: so they are now equivalent
assert_eq!(
Query::select()
.cond_where(any![Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(2), Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(3)])
.cond_where(Expr::col(Glyph::Id).eq(1))
.to_owned()
.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT WHERE ("id" = 2 OR "id" = 3) AND "id" = 1"#
);

Added OnConflict::value and OnConflict::values​

[#451] Implementation From<T> for any Into<Value> into SimpleExpr

// Before: notice the tuple
OnConflict::column(Glyph::Id).update_expr((Glyph::Image, Expr::val(1).add(2)))
// After: it accepts `Value` as well as `SimpleExpr`
OnConflict::column(Glyph::Id).value(Glyph::Image, Expr::val(1).add(2))

Improvement to ColumnDef::default​

[#347] ColumnDef::default now accepts Into<SimpleExpr> instead Into<Value>

// Now we can write:
ColumnDef::new(Char::FontId)
.timestamp()
.default(Expr::current_timestamp())

Breaking Changes​

  • [#386] Changed in_tuples interface to accept IntoValueTuple
  • [#320] Removed deprecated methods
  • [#440] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP changed from being a function to keyword
  • [#375] Update SQLite boolean type from integer to boolean`
  • [#451] Deprecated OnConflict::update_value, OnConflict::update_values, OnConflict::update_expr, OnConflict::update_exprs
  • [#451] Deprecated InsertStatement::exprs, InsertStatement::exprs_panic
  • [#451] Deprecated UpdateStatement::col_expr, UpdateStatement::value_expr, UpdateStatement::exprs
  • [#451] UpdateStatement::value now accept Into<SimpleExpr> instead of Into<Value>
  • [#451] Expr::case, CaseStatement::case and CaseStatement::finally now accepts Into<SimpleExpr> instead of Into<Expr>
  • [#460] InsertStatement::values, UpdateStatement::values now accepts IntoIterator<Item = SimpleExpr> instead of IntoIterator<Item = Value>
  • [#409] Use native api from SQLx for SQLite to work with time
  • [#435] Changed type of ColumnType::Enum from (String, Vec<String>) to Enum { name: DynIden, variants: Vec<DynIden>}

Miscellaneous Enhancements​

  • [#336] Added support one dimension Postgres array for SQLx
  • [#373] Support CROSS JOIN
  • [#457] Added support DROP COLUMN for SQLite
  • [#466] Added YEAR, BIT and VARBIT types
  • [#338] Handle Postgres schema name for schema statements
  • [#418] Added %, << and >> binary operators
  • [#329] Added RAND function
  • [#425] Implements Display for Value
  • [#427] Added INTERSECT and EXCEPT to UnionType
  • [#448] OrderedStatement::order_by_customs, OrderedStatement::order_by_columns, OverStatement::partition_by_customs, OverStatement::partition_by_columns now accepts IntoIterator<Item = T> instead of Vec<T>
  • [#452] TableAlterStatement::rename_column, TableAlterStatement::drop_column, ColumnDef::new, ColumnDef::new_with_type now accepts IntoIden instead of Iden
  • [#426] Cleanup IndexBuilder trait methods
  • [#436] Introduce SqlWriter trait
  • [#448] Remove unneeded vec! from examples

Bug Fixes​

  • [#449] distinct_on properly handles ColumnRef
  • [#461] Removed ON for DROP INDEX for SQLite
  • [#468] Change datetime string format to include microseconds
  • [#452] ALTER TABLE for PosgreSQL with UNIQUE constraint

Integration Examples​

SeaQuery plays well with the other crates in the rust ecosystem.

Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Β· 6 min read
SeaQL Team

Seaography is a GraphQL framework for building GraphQL resolvers using SeaORM. It ships with a CLI tool that can generate ready-to-compile Rust projects from existing MySQL, Postgres and SQLite databases.

The design and implementation of Seaography can be found on our release blog post and documentation.

Extending a SeaORM project​

Since Seaography is built on top of SeaORM, you can easily build a GraphQL server from a SeaORM project.

Start by adding Seaography and GraphQL dependencies to your Cargo.toml.

Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
sea-orm = { version = "^0.9", features = [ ... ] }
+ seaography = { version = "^0.1", features = [ "with-decimal", "with-chrono" ] }
+ async-graphql = { version = "4.0.10", features = ["decimal", "chrono", "dataloader"] }
+ async-graphql-poem = { version = "4.0.10" }

Then, derive a few macros on the SeaORM entities.

src/entities/film_actor.rs
use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;

#[derive(
Clone,
Debug,
PartialEq,
DeriveEntityModel,
+ async_graphql::SimpleObject,
+ seaography::macros::Filter,
)]
+ #[graphql(complex)]
+ #[graphql(name = "FilmActor")]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "film_actor")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key, auto_increment = false)]
pub actor_id: i32,
#[sea_orm(primary_key, auto_increment = false)]
pub film_id: i32,
pub last_update: DateTimeUtc,
}

#[derive(
Copy,
Clone,
Debug,
EnumIter,
DeriveRelation,
+ seaography::macros::RelationsCompact,
)]
pub enum Relation {
#[sea_orm(
belongs_to = "super::film::Entity",
from = "Column::FilmId",
to = "super::film::Column::FilmId",
on_update = "Cascade",
on_delete = "NoAction"
)]
Film,
#[sea_orm(
belongs_to = "super::actor::Entity",
from = "Column::ActorId",
to = "super::actor::Column::ActorId",
on_update = "Cascade",
on_delete = "NoAction"
)]
Actor,
}

We also need to define QueryRoot for the GraphQL server. This define the GraphQL schema.

src/query_root.rs
#[derive(Debug, seaography::macros::QueryRoot)]
#[seaography(entity = "crate::entities::actor")]
#[seaography(entity = "crate::entities::film")]
#[seaography(entity = "crate::entities::film_actor")]
pub struct QueryRoot;
src/lib.rs
use sea_orm::prelude::*;

pub mod entities;
pub mod query_root;

pub use query_root::QueryRoot;

pub struct OrmDataloader {
pub db: DatabaseConnection,
}

Finally, create an executable to drive the GraphQL server.

src/main.rs
use async_graphql::{
dataloader::DataLoader,
http::{playground_source, GraphQLPlaygroundConfig},
EmptyMutation, EmptySubscription, Schema,
};
use async_graphql_poem::GraphQL;
use poem::{handler, listener::TcpListener, web::Html, IntoResponse, Route, Server};
use sea_orm::Database;
use seaography_example_project::*;
// ...

#[handler]
async fn graphql_playground() -> impl IntoResponse {
Html(playground_source(GraphQLPlaygroundConfig::new("/")))
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
// ...

let database = Database::connect(db_url).await.unwrap();
let orm_dataloader: DataLoader<OrmDataloader> = DataLoader::new(
OrmDataloader { db: database.clone() },
tokio::spawn,
);

let schema = Schema::build(QueryRoot, EmptyMutation, EmptySubscription)
.data(database)
.data(orm_dataloader)
.finish();

let app = Route::new()
.at("/", get(graphql_playground)
.post(GraphQL::new(schema)));

Server::new(TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:8000"))
.run(app)
.await
.unwrap();
}

Generating a project from database​

If all you have is a database schema, good news! You can setup a GraphQL server without writing a single line of code.

Install seaography-cli, it helps you generate SeaORM entities along with a full Rust project based on a database schema.

cargo install seaography-cli

Run seaography-cli to generate code for the GraphQL server.

# The command take three arguments
seaography-cli <DATABASE_URL> <CRATE_NAME> <DESTINATION>

# MySQL
seaography-cli mysql://root:root@localhost/sakila seaography-mysql-example examples/mysql
# PostgreSQL
seaography-cli postgres://root:root@localhost/sakila seaography-postgres-example examples/postgres
# SQLite
seaography-cli sqlite://examples/sqlite/sakila.db seaography-sqlite-example examples/sqliteql

Checkout the example projects​

We have the following examples for you, alongside with the SQL scripts to initialize the database.

All examples provide a web-based GraphQL playground when running, so you can inspect the GraphQL schema and make queries. We also hosted a demo GraphQL playground in case you can't wait to play with it.

Starting the GraphQL Server​

Your GraphQL server is ready to launch! Go to the Rust project root then execute cargo run to spin it up.

$ cargo run

Playground: http://localhost:8000

Visit the GraphQL playground at http://localhost:8000

GraphQL Playground

Query Data via GraphQL​

Let say we want to get the first 3 films released on or after year 2006 sorted in ascending order of its title.

{
film(
pagination: { limit: 3, page: 0 }
filters: { releaseYear: { gte: "2006" } }
orderBy: { title: ASC }
) {
data {
filmId
title
description
releaseYear
filmActor {
actor {
actorId
firstName
lastName
}
}
}
pages
current
}
}

We got the following JSON result after running the GraphQL query.

{
"data": {
"film": {
"data": [
{
"filmId": 1,
"title": "ACADEMY DINOSAUR",
"description": "An Epic Drama of a Feminist And a Mad Scientist who must Battle a Teacher in The Canadian Rockies",
"releaseYear": "2006",
"filmActor": [
{
"actor": {
"actorId": 1,
"firstName": "PENELOPE",
"lastName": "GUINESS"
}
},
{
"actor": {
"actorId": 10,
"firstName": "CHRISTIAN",
"lastName": "GABLE"
}
},
// ...
]
},
{
"filmId": 2,
"title": "ACE GOLDFINGER",
"description": "A Astounding Epistle of a Database Administrator And a Explorer who must Find a Car in Ancient China",
"releaseYear": "2006",
"filmActor": [
// ...
]
},
// ...
],
"pages": 334,
"current": 0
}
}
}

Behind the scene, the following SQL were queried:

SELECT "film"."film_id",
"film"."title",
"film"."description",
"film"."release_year",
"film"."language_id",
"film"."original_language_id",
"film"."rental_duration",
"film"."rental_rate",
"film"."length",
"film"."replacement_cost",
"film"."rating",
"film"."special_features",
"film"."last_update"
FROM "film"
WHERE "film"."release_year" >= '2006'
ORDER BY "film"."title" ASC
LIMIT 3 OFFSET 0

SELECT "film_actor"."actor_id", "film_actor"."film_id", "film_actor"."last_update"
FROM "film_actor"
WHERE "film_actor"."film_id" IN (1, 3, 2)

SELECT "actor"."actor_id", "actor"."first_name", "actor"."last_name", "actor"."last_update"
FROM "actor"
WHERE "actor"."actor_id" IN (24, 162, 20, 160, 1, 188, 123, 30, 53, 40, 2, 64, 85, 198, 10, 19, 108, 90)

Under the hood, Seaography uses async_graphql::dataloader in querying nested objects to tackle the N+1 problem.

To learn more, checkout the Seaography Documentation.

Conclusion​

Seaography is an ergonomic library that turns SeaORM entities into GraphQL nodes. It provides a set of utilities and combined with a code generator makes GraphQL API building a breeze.

However, Seaography is still a new-born. Like all other open-source projects developed by passionate Rust developers, you can contribute to it if you also find the concept interesting. With its addition to the SeaQL ecosystem, we are one step closer to the vision of Rust being the best tool for data engineering.

People​

Seaography is created by:

Panagiotis Karatakis
Summer of Code Contributor; developer of Seaography
Chris Tsang
Summer of Code Mentor; lead developer of SeaQL
Billy Chan
Summer of Code Mentor; core member of SeaQL

Β· 4 min read
SeaQL Team

What a fruitful Summer of Code! Today, we are excited to introduce Seaography to the SeaQL community. Seaography is a GraphQL framework for building GraphQL resolvers using SeaORM. It ships with a CLI tool that can generate ready-to-compile Rust projects from existing MySQL, Postgres and SQLite databases.

Motivation​

We observed that other ecosystems have similar tools such as PostGraphile and Hasura allowing users to query a database via GraphQL with minimal effort upfront. We decided to bring that seamless experience to the Rust ecosystem.

For existing SeaORM users, adding a GraphQL API is straight forward. Start by adding seaography and async-graphql dependencies to your crate. Then, deriving a few extra derive macros to the SeaORM entities. Finally, spin up a GraphQL server to serve queries!

If you are new to SeaORM, no worries, we have your back. You only need to provide a database connection, and seaography-cli will generate the SeaORM entities together with a complete Rust project!

Design​

We considered two approaches in our initial discussion: 1) blackbox query engine 2) code generator. The drawback with a blackbox query engine is it's difficult to customize or extend its behaviour, making it difficult to develop and operate in the long run. We opted the code generator approach, giving users full control and endless possibilities with the versatile async Rust ecosystem.

This project is separated into the following crates:

  • seaography: The facade crate; exporting macros, structures and helper functions to turn SeaORM entities into GraphQL nodes.

  • seaography-cli: The CLI tool; it generates SeaORM entities along with a full Rust project based on a user-provided database.

  • seaography-discoverer: A helper crate used by the CLI tool to discover the database schema and transform into a generic format.

  • seaography-generator: A helper crate used by the CLI tool to consume the database schema and generate a full Rust project.

  • seaography-derive: A set of procedural macros to derive types and trait implementations on SeaORM entities, turning them into GraphQL nodes.

Features​

  • Relational query (1-to-1, 1-to-N)
  • Pagination on query's root entity
  • Filter with operators (e.g. gt, lt, eq)
  • Order by any column

Getting Started​

To quick start, we have the following examples for you, alongside with the SQL scripts to initialize the database.

All examples provide a web-based GraphQL playground when running, so you can inspect the GraphQL schema and make queries. We also hosted a demo GraphQL playground in case you can't wait to play with it.

For more documentation, visit www.sea-ql.org/Seaography.

What's Next?​

This project passed the first milestone shipping the essential features, but it still has a long way to go. The next milestone would be:

  • Query enhancements
    • Filter related queries
    • Filter based on related queries properties
    • Paginate related queries
    • Order by related queries
  • Cursor based pagination
  • Single entity query
  • Mutations
    • Insert single entity
    • Insert batch entities
    • Update single entity
    • Update batch entities using filter
    • Delete single entity
    • Delete batch entities

Conclusion​

Seaography is an ergonomic library that turns SeaORM entities into GraphQL nodes. It provides a set of utilities and combined with a code generator makes GraphQL API building a breeze.

However, Seaography is still a new-born. Like all other open-source projects developed by passionate Rust developers, you can contribute to it if you also find the concept interesting. With its addition to the SeaQL ecosystem, we are one step closer to the vision of Rust being the best tool for data engineering.

People​

Seaography is created by:

Panagiotis Karatakis
Summer of Code Contributor; developer of Seaography
Chris Tsang
Summer of Code Mentor; lead developer of SeaQL
Billy Chan
Summer of Code Mentor; core member of SeaQL

Β· 6 min read
SeaQL Team

We are celebrating the milestone of reaching 3,000 GitHub stars across all SeaQL repositories!

This wouldn't have happened without your support and contribution, so we want to thank the community for being with us along the way.

The Journey​

SeaQL.org was founded back in 2020. We devoted ourselves into developing open source libraries that help Rust developers to build data intensive applications. In the past two years, we published and maintained four open source libraries: SeaQuery, SeaSchema, SeaORM and StarfishQL. Each library is designed to fill a niche in the Rust ecosystem, and they are made to play well with other Rust libraries.

2020​

  • Oct 2020: SeaQL founded
  • Dec 2020: SeaQuery first released

2021​

  • Apr 2021: SeaSchema first released
  • Aug 2021: SeaORM first released
  • Nov 2021: SeaORM reached 0.4.0
  • Dec 2021: SeaQuery reached 0.20.0
  • Dec 2021: SeaSchema reached 0.4.0

2022​

  • Apr 2022: SeaQL selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization
  • Apr 2022: StarfishQL first released
  • Jul 2022: SeaQuery reached 0.26.2
  • Jul 2022: SeaSchema reached 0.9.3
  • Jul 2022: SeaORM reached 0.9.1
  • Aug 2022: SeaQL reached 3,000+ GitHub stars

Where're We Now?​

We're pleased by the adoption by the Rust community. We couldn't make it this far without your feedback and contributions.

4 πŸ“¦
Open source projects
5 🏬
Startups using SeaQL
1,972 🎈
Dependent projects
131 πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦
Contributors
1,061 βœ…
Merged PRs & resolved issues
3,158 ⭐
GitHub stars
432 πŸ—£οΈ
Discord members
87,937 ⌨️
Lines of Rust
667,769 πŸ’Ώ
Downloads on crates.io

* as of Aug 12

Core Members​

Our team has grown from two people initially into four. We always welcome passionate engineers to join us!

Chris Tsang
Founder. Led the initial development and maintaining the projects.
Billy Chan
Founding member. Contributed many features and bug fixes. Keeps the community alive.
Ivan Krivosheev
Joined in 2022. Contributed many features and bug fixes, most notably to SeaQuery.
Sanford Pun
Developed StarfishQL and wrote SeaORM's tutorial.

Special Thanks​

Marco Napetti
Contributed transaction, streaming and tracing API to SeaORM.
nitnelave
Contributed binder crate and other improvements to SeaQuery.
Sam Samai
Developed SeaORM's test suite and demo schema.
Daniel Lyne
Developed SeaSchema's Postgres implementation.
Charles Chege
Developed SeaSchema's SQLite implementation.

Sponsors​

If you are feeling generous, a small donation will be greatly appreciated.

A big shout out to our sponsors πŸ˜‡:

Γ‰mile Fugulin
Dean Sheather
Shane Sveller
Sakti Dwi Cahyono
Unnamed Sponsor
Unnamed Sponsor

Contributors​

Many features and enhancements are actually proposed and implemented by the community. We want to take this chance to thank all our contributors!

What's Next?​

We have two ongoing Summer of Code 2022 projects to enrich the SeaQL ecosystem, planning to be released later this year. In the meantime, we're focusing on improving existing SeaQL libraries until reaching version 1.0, we'd love to hear comments and feedback from the community.

If you like what we do, consider starring, commenting, sharing, contributing and together building for Rust's future!

Β· 3 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaQuery 0.26.0! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

Dependency Upgrades​

[#356] We have upgraded a few major dependencies:

Note that you might need to upgrade the corresponding dependency on your application as well.

VALUES lists​

[#351] Add support for VALUES lists

// SELECT * FROM (VALUES (1, 'hello'), (2, 'world')) AS "x"
let query = SelectStatement::new()
.expr(Expr::asterisk())
.from_values(vec![(1i32, "hello"), (2, "world")], Alias::new("x"))
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT * FROM (VALUES (1, 'hello'), (2, 'world')) AS "x""#
);

Introduce sea-query-binder​

[#273] Native support SQLx without marcos

use sea_query_binder::SqlxBinder;

// Create SeaQuery query with prepare SQLx
let (sql, values) = Query::select()
.columns([
Character::Id,
Character::Uuid,
Character::Character,
Character::FontSize,
Character::Meta,
Character::Decimal,
Character::BigDecimal,
Character::Created,
Character::Inet,
Character::MacAddress,
])
.from(Character::Table)
.order_by(Character::Id, Order::Desc)
.build_sqlx(PostgresQueryBuilder);

// Execute query
let rows = sqlx::query_as_with::<_, CharacterStructChrono, _>(&sql, values)
.fetch_all(&mut pool)
.await?;

// Print rows
for row in rows.iter() {
println!("{:?}", row);
}

CASE WHEN statement support​

[#304] Add support for CASE WHEN statement

let query = Query::select()
.expr_as(
CaseStatement::new()
.case(Expr::tbl(Glyph::Table, Glyph::Aspect).is_in(vec![2, 4]), Expr::val(true))
.finally(Expr::val(false)),
Alias::new("is_even")
)
.from(Glyph::Table)
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT (CASE WHEN ("glyph"."aspect" IN (2, 4)) THEN TRUE ELSE FALSE END) AS "is_even" FROM "glyph""#
);

Add support for Ip(4,6)Network and MacAddress​

[#309] Add support for Network types in PostgreSQL backend

Introduce sea-query-attr​

[#296] Proc-macro for deriving Iden enum from struct

use sea_query::gen_type_def;

#[gen_type_def]
pub struct Hello {
pub name: String
}

println!("{:?}", HelloTypeDef::Name);

Add ability to alter foreign keys​

[#299] Add support for ALTER foreign Keys

let foreign_key_char = TableForeignKey::new()
.name("FK_character_glyph")
.from_tbl(Char::Table)
.from_col(Char::FontId)
.from_col(Char::Id)
.to_tbl(Glyph::Table)
.to_col(Char::FontId)
.to_col(Char::Id)
.to_owned();

let table = Table::alter()
.table(Character::Table)
.add_foreign_key(&foreign_key_char)
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
table.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
vec![
r#"ALTER TABLE "character""#,
r#"ADD CONSTRAINT "FK_character_glyph""#,
r#"FOREIGN KEY ("font_id", "id") REFERENCES "glyph" ("font_id", "id")"#,
r#"ON DELETE CASCADE ON UPDATE CASCADE,"#,
]
.join(" ")
);

Select DISTINCT ON​

[#250]

let query = Query::select()
.from(Char::Table)
.distinct_on(vec![Char::Character])
.column(Char::Character)
.column(Char::SizeW)
.column(Char::SizeH)
.to_owned();

assert_eq!(
query.to_string(PostgresQueryBuilder),
r#"SELECT DISTINCT ON ("character") "character", "size_w", "size_h" FROM "character""#
);

Miscellaneous Enhancements​

  • [#353] Support LIKE ... ESCAPE ... expression
  • [#306] Move escape and unescape string to backend
  • [#365] Add method to make a column nullable
  • [#348] Add is & is_not to Expr
  • [#349] Add CURRENT_TIMESTAMP function
  • [#345] Add in_tuple method to Expr
  • [#266] Insert Default
  • [#324] Make sea-query-driver an optional dependency
  • [#334] Add ABS function
  • [#332] Support IF NOT EXISTS when create index
  • [#314] Support different blob types in MySQL
  • [#331] Add VarBinary column type
  • [#335] RETURNING expression supporting SimpleExpr

Integration Examples​

SeaQuery plays well with the other crates in the rust ecosystem.

Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Β· 5 min read
Chris Tsang

It's hard to pin down the exact date, but I think SeaQL.org was setup in July 2020, a little over a year ago. Over the course of the year, SeaORM went from 0.1 to 0.9 and the number of users kept growing. I would like to outline our engineering process in this blog post, and perhaps it can serve as a reference or guidance to prospective contributors and the future maintainer of this project.

In the open source world, the Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDL) model underpins a number of successful open source projects. That's not me! As a maintainer, I believe in an open, bottom-up, iterative and progressive approach. Let me explain each of these words and what they mean to me.

Open​

Open as in source availability, but also engineering. We always welcome new contributors! We'd openly discuss ideas and designs. I would often explain why a decision was made in the first place for various things. The project is structured not as a monorepo, but several interdependent repos. This reduces the friction for new contributors, because they can have a smaller field of vision to focus on solving one particular problem at hand.

Bottom-up​

We rely on users to file feature requests, bug reports and of course pull requests to drive the project forward. The great thing is, for every feature / bug fix, there is a use case for it and a confirmation from a real user that it works and is reasonable. As a maintainer, I could not have first hand experience for all features and so could not understand some of the pain points.

Iterative​

Open source software is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. While I do have a grand vision in mind, we do not try rushing it all the way in one charge, nor keeping a project secret until it is 'complete'. Good old 'release early, release often' - we would release an initial working version of a tool, gather user feedback and improve upon it, often reimplementing a few things and break a few others - which brings us to the next point.

Progressive​

Favour progression. Always look forward and leave legacy behind. It does not mean that we would arbitrary break things, but when a decision is made, we'd always imagine how the software should be without historic context. We'd provide migrate paths and encourage users to move forward with us. After all, Rust is a young and evolving language! You may or may not know that async was just stabilized in 2020.

Enough said for the philosophy, let's now talk about the actual engineering process.

1. Idea & Design​

We first have some vague idea on what problem we want to tackle. As we put in more details to the use case, we can define the problem and brainstorm solutions. Then we look for workable ways to implement that in Rust.

2. Implementation​

An initial proof of concept is appreciated. We iterate on the implementation to reduce the impact and improve the maintainability.

3. Testing​

We rely on automated tests. Every feature should come with corresponding tests, and a release is good if and only if all tests are green. Which means for features not covered by our test suite, it is an uncertainty to when we would break them. So if certain undocumented feature is important to you, we encourage you to add that to our test suite.

4. Documentation​

Coding is not complete without documentation. Rust doc tests kill two birds with one stone and so is greatly appreciated. For SeaORM we have separate documentation repository and tutorial repository. It takes a lot of effort to maintain those to be up to date, and right now it's mostly done by our core contributors.

5. Release​

We run on a release train model, although the frequency varies. The ethos is to have small number breaking changes often. At one point, SeaQuery has a new release every week. SeaORM runs on monthly, although it more or less relaxes to bimonthly now. At any time, we maintain two branches, the latest release and master. PRs are always merged into master, and if it is non-breaking (and worthy) I would backport it to the release branch and make a minor release. At the end, I want to maintain momentum and move forward together with the community. Users can have a rough expectation on when merges will be released. And there are just lots of change we cannot avoid a breaking release as of the current state of the Rust ecosystem. Users are advised to upgrade regularly, and we ship along many small improvements to encourage that.

Conclusion​

Open source software is a collaborative effort and thank you all who participated! Also a big thanks to SeaQL's core contributors who made wonders. If you have not already, I invite you to star all our repositories. If you want to support us materially, a small donation would make a big difference. SeaQL the organization is still in its infancy, and your support is vital to SeaQL's longevity and the prospect of the Rust community.

Β· 11 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaORM 0.9.0 today! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

Dependency Upgrades​

[#834] We have upgraded a few major dependencies:

Note that you might need to upgrade the corresponding dependency on your application as well.

Proposed by:
Rob Gilson
boraarslan
Contributed by:
Billy Chan

Cursor Pagination​

[#822] Paginate models based on column(s) such as the primary key.

// Create a cursor that order by `cake`.`id`
let mut cursor = cake::Entity::find().cursor_by(cake::Column::Id);

// Filter paginated result by `cake`.`id` > 1 AND `cake`.`id` < 100
cursor.after(1).before(100);

// Get first 10 rows (order by `cake`.`id` ASC)
let rows: Vec<cake::Model> = cursor.first(10).all(db).await?;

// Get last 10 rows (order by `cake`.`id` DESC but rows are returned in ascending order)
let rows: Vec<cake::Model> = cursor.last(10).all(db).await?;
Proposed by:
Lucas Berezy
Contributed by:
Γ‰mile Fugulin
Billy Chan

Insert On Conflict​

[#791] Insert an active model with on conflict behaviour.

let orange = cake::ActiveModel {
id: ActiveValue::set(2),
name: ActiveValue::set("Orange".to_owned()),
};

// On conflict do nothing:
// - INSERT INTO "cake" ("id", "name") VALUES (2, 'Orange') ON CONFLICT ("name") DO NOTHING
cake::Entity::insert(orange.clone())
.on_conflict(
sea_query::OnConflict::column(cake::Column::Name)
.do_nothing()
.to_owned()
)
.exec(db)
.await?;

// On conflict do update:
// - INSERT INTO "cake" ("id", "name") VALUES (2, 'Orange') ON CONFLICT ("name") DO UPDATE SET "name" = "excluded"."name"
cake::Entity::insert(orange)
.on_conflict(
sea_query::OnConflict::column(cake::Column::Name)
.update_column(cake::Column::Name)
.to_owned()
)
.exec(db)
.await?;
Proposed by:
baoyachi. Aka Rust Hairy crabs
Contributed by:
liberwang1013

Join Table with Custom Conditions and Table Alias​

[#793, #852] Click Custom Join Conditions and Custom Joins to learn more.

assert_eq!(
cake::Entity::find()
.column_as(
Expr::tbl(Alias::new("fruit_alias"), fruit::Column::Name).into_simple_expr(),
"fruit_name"
)
.join_as(
JoinType::LeftJoin,
cake::Relation::Fruit
.def()
.on_condition(|_left, right| {
Expr::tbl(right, fruit::Column::Name)
.like("%tropical%")
.into_condition()
}),
Alias::new("fruit_alias")
)
.build(DbBackend::MySql)
.to_string(),
[
"SELECT `cake`.`id`, `cake`.`name`, `fruit_alias`.`name` AS `fruit_name` FROM `cake`",
"LEFT JOIN `fruit` AS `fruit_alias` ON `cake`.`id` = `fruit_alias`.`cake_id` AND `fruit_alias`.`name` LIKE '%tropical%'",
]
.join(" ")
);
Proposed by:
Chris Tsang
Tuetuopay
LoΓ―c
Contributed by:
Billy Chan
Matt
liberwang1013

(de)serialize Custom JSON Type​

[#794] JSON stored in the database could be deserialized into custom struct in Rust.

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "json_struct")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
// JSON column defined in `serde_json::Value`
pub json: Json,
// JSON column defined in custom struct
pub json_value: KeyValue,
pub json_value_opt: Option<KeyValue>,
}

// The custom struct must derive `FromJsonQueryResult`, `Serialize` and `Deserialize`
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize, FromJsonQueryResult)]
pub struct KeyValue {
pub id: i32,
pub name: String,
pub price: f32,
pub notes: Option<String>,
}
Proposed by:
Mara Schulke
Chris Tsang
Contributed by:
Billy Chan

Derived Migration Name​

[#736] Introduce DeriveMigrationName procedural macros to infer migration name from the file name.

use sea_orm_migration::prelude::*;

// Used to be...
pub struct Migration;

impl MigrationName for Migration {
fn name(&self) -> &str {
"m20220120_000001_create_post_table"
}
}

// Now... derive `DeriveMigrationName`,
// no longer have to specify the migration name explicitly
#[derive(DeriveMigrationName)]
pub struct Migration;

#[async_trait::async_trait]
impl MigrationTrait for Migration {
async fn up(&self, manager: &SchemaManager) -> Result<(), DbErr> {
manager
.create_table( ... )
.await
}

async fn down(&self, manager: &SchemaManager) -> Result<(), DbErr> {
manager
.drop_table( ... )
.await
}
}
Proposed by:
Chris Tsang
Contributed by:
smonv
Lukas Potthast
Billy Chan

SeaORM CLI Improvements​

  • [#735] Improve logging of generate entity command
  • [#588] Generate enum with numeric like variants
  • [#755] Allow old pending migration to be applied
  • [#837] Skip generating entity for ignored tables
  • [#724] Generate code for time crate
  • [#850] Add various blob column types
  • [#422] Generate entity files with Postgres's schema name
  • [#851] Skip checking connection string for credentials
Proposed & Contributed by:
ttys3
kyoto7250
yb3616
Γ‰mile Fugulin
Bastian
Nahua
Mike
Frank Horvath
Maikel Wever

Miscellaneous Enhancements​

  • [#800] Added sqlx_logging_level to ConnectOptions
  • [#768] Added num_items_and_pages to Paginator
  • [#849] Added TryFromU64 for time
  • [#853] Include column name in TryGetError::Null
  • [#778] Refactor stream metrics
Proposed & Contributed by:
SandaruKasa
Eric
Γ‰mile Fugulin
Renato Dinhani
kyoto7250
Marco Napetti

Integration Examples​

SeaORM plays well with the other crates in the async ecosystem. We maintain an array of example projects for building REST, GraphQL and gRPC services. More examples wanted!

Our GitHub Sponsor profile is up! If you feel generous, a small donation will be greatly appreciated.

A big shout out to our sponsors πŸ˜‡:

Γ‰mile Fugulin
Dean Sheather
Shane Sveller
Sakti Dwi Cahyono
Unnamed Sponsor
Unnamed Sponsor

Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Here is the roadmap for SeaORM 0.10.x.

Β· 4 min read
SeaQL Team

We are thrilled to announce that we will bring in four contributors this summer! Two of them are sponsored by Google while two of them are sponsored by SeaQL.

A GraphQL Framework on Top of SeaORM​

Panagiotis Karatakis

I'm Panagiotis, I live in Athens Greece and currently I pursue my second bachelors on economic sciences. My first bachelors was on computer science and I've a great passion on studying and implementing enterprise software solutions. I know Rust the last year and I used it almost daily for a small startup project that me and my friends build for a startup competition.

I'll be working on creating a CLI tool that will explore a database schema and then generate a ready to build async-graphql API. The tool will allow quick integration with the SeaQL and Rust ecosystems as well as GraphQL. To be more specific, for database exploring I'll use sea-schema and sea-orm-codegen for entity generation, my job is to glue those together with async-graphql library. You can read more here.

SQL Interpreter for Mock Testing​

Samyak Sarnayak

I'm Samyak Sarnayak, a final year Computer Science student from Bangalore, India. I started learning Rust around 6-7 months ago and it feels like I have found the perfect language for me :D. It does not have a runtime, has a great type system, really good compiler errors, good tooling, some functional programming patterns and metaprogramming. You can find more about me on my GitHub profile.

I'll be working on a new SQL interpreter for mock testing. This will be built specifically for testing and so the emphasis will be on correctness - it can be slow but the operations must always be correct. I'm hoping to build a working version of this and integrate it into the existing tests of SeaORM. Here is the discussion for this project.

Support TiDB in the SeaQL Ecosystem​

Edit: This project was canceled.

Query Linter for SeaORM​

Edit: This project was canceled.

Mentors​

Chris Tsang

I am a strong believer in open source. I started my GitHub journey 10 years ago, when I published my first programming library. I had been looking for a programming language with speed, ergonomic and expressiveness. Until I found Rust.

Seeing a niche and demand for data engineering tools in the Rust ecosystem, I founded SeaQL in 2020 and have been leading the development and maintaining the libraries since then.


Billy Chan

Hey, this is Billy from Hong Kong. I've been using open-source libraries ever since I started coding but it's until 2020, I dedicated myself to be a Rust open-source developer.

I was also a full-stack developer specialized in formulating requirement specifications for user interfaces and database structures, implementing and testing both frontend and backend from ground up, finally releasing the MVP for production and maintaining it for years to come.

I enjoy working with Rustaceans across the globe, building a better and sustainable ecosystem for Rust community. If you like what we do, consider starring, commenting, sharing and contributing, it would be much appreciated.


Sanford Pun

I'm Sanford, an enthusiastic software engineer who enjoys problem-solving! I've worked on Rust for a couple of years now. During my early days with Rust, I focused more on the field of graphics/image processing, where I fell in love with what the language has to offer! This year, I've been exploring data engineering in the StarfishQL project.

A toast to the endless potential of Rust!

Community​

If you are interested in the projects and want to share your thoughts, please star and watch the SeaQL/summer-of-code repository on GitHub and join us on our Discord server!

Β· 5 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaORM 0.8.0 today! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

Migration Utilities Moved to sea-orm-migration crate​

[#666] Utilities of SeaORM migration have been moved from sea-schema to sea-orm-migration crate. Users are advised to upgrade from older versions with the following steps:

  1. Bump sea-orm version to 0.8.0.

  2. Replace sea-schema dependency with sea-orm-migration in your migration crate.

    migration/Cargo.toml
    [dependencies]
    - sea-schema = { version = "^0.7.0", ... }
    + sea-orm-migration = { version = "^0.8.0" }
  3. Find and replace use sea_schema::migration:: with use sea_orm_migration:: in your migration crate.

    - use sea_schema::migration::prelude::*;
    + use sea_orm_migration::prelude::*;

    - use sea_schema::migration::*;
    + use sea_orm_migration::*;
Designed by:

Chris Tsang
Contributed by:

Billy Chan

Generating New Migration​

[#656] You can create a new migration with the migrate generate subcommand. This simplifies the migration process, as new migrations no longer need to be added manually.

# A migration file `MIGRATION_DIR/src/mYYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_create_product_table.rs` will be created.
# And, the migration file will be imported and included in the migrator located at `MIGRATION_DIR/src/lib.rs`.
sea-orm-cli migrate generate create_product_table
Proposed & Contributed by:

Viktor Bahr

Inserting One with Default​

[#589] Insert a row populate with default values. Note that the target table should have default values defined for all of its columns.

let pear = fruit::ActiveModel {
..Default::default() // all attributes are `NotSet`
};

// The SQL statement:
// - MySQL: INSERT INTO `fruit` VALUES ()
// - SQLite: INSERT INTO "fruit" DEFAULT VALUES
// - PostgreSQL: INSERT INTO "fruit" VALUES (DEFAULT) RETURNING "id", "name", "cake_id"
let pear: fruit::Model = pear.insert(db).await?;
Proposed by:

Crypto-Virus
Contributed by:

Billy Chan

Checking if an ActiveModel is changed​

[#683] You can check whether any field in an ActiveModel is Set with the help of the is_changed method.

let mut fruit: fruit::ActiveModel = Default::default();
assert!(!fruit.is_changed());

fruit.set(fruit::Column::Name, "apple".into());
assert!(fruit.is_changed());
Proposed by:

Karol Fuksiewicz
Contributed by:

Kirawi

Minor Improvements​

  • [#670] Add max_connections option to sea-orm-cli generate entity subcommand
  • [#677] Derive Eq and Clone for DbErr
Proposed & Contributed by:

benluelo

Sebastien Guillemot

Integration Examples​

SeaORM plays well with the other crates in the async ecosystem. It can be integrated easily with common RESTful frameworks and also gRPC frameworks; check out our new Tonic example to see how it works. More examples wanted!

Who's using SeaORM?​

The following products are powered by SeaORM:



A lightweight web security auditing toolkit

The enterprise ready webhooks service

A personal search engine

SeaORM is the foundation of StarfishQL, an experimental graph database and query engine.

For more projects, see Built with SeaORM.

Our GitHub Sponsor profile is up! If you feel generous, a small donation will be greatly appreciated.

A big shout out to our sponsors πŸ˜‡:

Γ‰mile Fugulin
Zachary Vander Velden
Dean Sheather
Shane Sveller
Sakti Dwi Cahyono
Unnamed Sponsor

Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Here is the roadmap for SeaORM 0.9.x.

GSoC 2022​

We are super excited to be selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization. The application is now closed, but the program is about to start! If you have thoughts over how we are going to implement the project ideas, feel free to participate in the discussion.

Β· 2 min read
Chris Tsang

FAQ.01 Why SeaORM does not nest objects for parent-child relation?​

let cake_with_fruits: Vec<(cake::Model, Vec<fruit::Model>)> =
Cake::find().find_with_related(Fruit).all(db).await?;

Consider the above API, Cake and Fruit are two separate models.

If you come from a dynamic language, you'd probably used to:

struct Cake {
id: u64,
fruit: Fruit,
..
}

It's so convenient that you can simply:

let cake = Cake::find().one(db).await?;
println!("Fruit = {}", cake.fruit.name);

Sweet right? Okay so, the problem with this pattern is that it does not fit well with Rust.

Let's look at this playground: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=6fb0a981189ace081fbb2aa04f50146b

struct Parent {
a: u64,
child: Option<Child>,
}

struct ParentWithBox {
a: u64,
child: Option<Box<Child>>,
}

struct Child {
a: u64,
b: u64,
c: u64,
d: u64,
}

fn main() {
dbg!(std::mem::size_of::<Parent>());
dbg!(std::mem::size_of::<ParentWithBox>());
dbg!(std::mem::size_of::<Child>());
}

What's the output you guess?

[src/main.rs:21] std::mem::size_of::<Parent>() = 48
[src/main.rs:22] std::mem::size_of::<ParentWithBox>() = 16
[src/main.rs:23] std::mem::size_of::<Child>() = 32

In dynamic languages, objects are always held by pointers, and that maps to a Box in Rust. In Rust, we don't put objects in Boxes by default, because it forces the object to be allocated on the heap. And that is an extra cost! Because objects are always first constructed on the stack and then being copied over to the heap.

Ref:

  1. https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-to-create-large-objects-directly-in-heap/26405
  2. https://github.com/PoignardAzur/placement-by-return/blob/placement-by-return/text/0000-placement-by-return.md

We face the dilemma where we either put the object on the stack and waste some space (it takes up 48 bytes no matter child is None or not) or put the object in a box and waste some cycles.

If you are new to Rust, all these might be unfamiliar, but a Rust programmer has to consciously make decisions over memory management, and we don't want to make decisions on behalf of our users.

That said, there were proposals to add API with this style to SeaORM, and we might implement that in the future. Hopefully this would shed some light on the matter meanwhile.

Β· 8 min read
SeaQL Team

We are pleased to introduce StarfishQL to the Rust community today. StarfishQL is a graph database and query engine to enable graph analysis and visualization on the web. It is an experimental project, with its primary purpose to explore the dependency network of Rust crates published on crates.io.

Motivation​

StarfishQL is a framework for providing a graph database and a graph query engine that interacts with it.

A concrete example (Freeport) involving the graph of crate dependency on crates.io is used for illustration. With this example, you can see StarfishQL in action.

At the end of the day, we're interested in performing graph analysis, that is to extract meaningful information out of plain graph data. To achieve that, we believe that visualization is a crucial aid.

StarfishQL's query engine is designed to be able to incorporate different forms of visualization by using a flexible query language. However, the development of the project has been centred around the following, as showcased in our demo apps.

Traverse the dependency graph in the normal direction starting from the N most connected nodes.

Traverse the dependency tree in both forward and reverse directions starting from a particular node.

Design​

In general, a query engine takes input queries written in a specific query language (e.g. SQL statements), performs the necessary operations in the database, and then outputs the data of interest to the user application. You may also view a query engine as an abstraction layer such that the user can design queries simply in the supported query language and let the query engine do the rest.

In the case of a graph query engine, the output data is a graph (wiki).

Graph query engine overview

In the case of StarfishQL, the query language is a custom language we defined in the JSON format, which enables the engine to be highly accessible and portable.

Implementation​

In the example of Freeport, StarfishQL consists of the following three components.

Graph Query Engine​

As a core component of StarfishQL, the graph query engine is a Rust backend application powered by the Rocket web framework and the SeaQL ecosystem.

The engine listens at the following endpoints for the corresponding operation:

You could also invoke the endpoints above programmatically.

Graph data are stored in a relational database:

  • Metadata - Definition of each entity and relation, e.g. attributes of crates and dependency
  • Node Data - An instance of an entity, e.g. crate name and version number
  • Edge Data - An instance of a relation, e.g. one crate depends on another

crates.io Crawler​

To obtain the crate data to insert into the database, we used a fast, non-disruptive crawler on a local clone of the public index repo of crates.io.

Graph Visualization​

We used d3.js to create force-directed graphs to display the results. The two colourful graphs above are such products.

Findings​

Here are some interesting findings we made during the process.

Top-10 Dependencies

List of top 10 crates order by different decay modes.

Decay Mode: Immediate / Simple Connectivity
crateconnectivity
serde17,441
serde_json10,528
log9,220
clap6,323
thiserror5,547
rand5,340
futures5,263
lazy_static5,211
tokio5,168
chrono4,794
Decay Mode: Medium (.5) / Complex Connectivity
crateconnectivity
quote4,126
syn4,069
pure-rust-locales4,067
reqwest3,950
proc-macro23,743
num_threads3,555
value-bag3,506
futures-macro3,455
time-macros3,450
thiserror-impl3,416
Decay Mode: None / Compound Connectivity
crateconnectivity
unicode-xid54,982
proc-macro254,949
quote54,910
syn54,744
rustc-std-workspace-core51,650
libc51,645
serde_derive51,056
serde51,054
jobserver50,567
cc50,566

If we look at Decay Mode: Immediate, where the connectivity is simply the number of immediate dependants, we can see thatserde and serde_json are at the top. I guess that supports our decision of defining the query language in JSON.

Decay Mode: None tells another interesting story: when the connectivity is the entire tree of dependants, we are looking at the really core crates that are nested somewhere deeply inside the most crates. In other words, these are the ones that are built along with the most crates. Under this setting, the utility crates that interacts with the low-level, more fundamental aspects of Rust are ranked higher,like quote with syntax trees, proc-macro2 with procedural macros, and unicode-xid with Unicode checking.

Number of crates without Dependencies

19,369 out of 79,972 crates, or 24% of the crates, do not depend on any crates.

e.g.Β a,Β a-,Β a0,Β  ...,Β zyx_test,Β zz-buffer,Β z_table

In other words, about 76% of the crates are standing on the shoulders of giants! πŸ’ͺ

Number of crates without Dependants

53,910 out of 79,972 crates, or 67% of the crates, have no dependants, i.e. no other crates depend on them.

e.g.Β a,Β a-,Β a-bot,Β  ...,Β zzp-tools,Β zzz,Β z_table

We imagine many of those crates are binaries/executables, if only we could figure out a way to check that... πŸ€”

As of March 30, 2022

Conclusion​

StarfishQL allows flexible and portable definition, manipulation, retrieval, and visualization of graph data.

The graph query engine built in Rust provides a nice interface for any web applications to access data in the relational graph database with stable performance and memory safety.

Admittedly, StarfishQL is still in its infancy, so every detail in the design and implementation is subject to change. Fortunately, the good thing about this is, like all other open-source projects developed by brilliant Rust developers, you can contribute to it if you also find the concept interesting. With its addition to the SeaQL ecosystem, together we are one step closer to the vision of Rust for data engineering.

People​

StarfishQL is created by the following SeaQL team members:

Chris Tsang
Billy Chan
Sanford Pun

Contributing​

We are super excited to be selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization!

StarfishQL is one of the GSoC project ideas that opens for development proposals. Join us on GSoC 2022 by following the instructions on GSoC Contributing Guide.

Β· 5 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaORM 0.7.0 today! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

Update ActiveModel by JSON​

[#492] If you want to save user input into the database you can easily convert JSON value into ActiveModel.

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel, Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "fruit")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
#[serde(skip_deserializing)] // Skip deserializing
pub id: i32,
pub name: String,
pub cake_id: Option<i32>,
}

Set the attributes in ActiveModel with set_from_json method.

// A ActiveModel with primary key set
let mut fruit = fruit::ActiveModel {
id: ActiveValue::Set(1),
name: ActiveValue::NotSet,
cake_id: ActiveValue::NotSet,
};

// Note that this method will not alter the primary key values in ActiveModel
fruit.set_from_json(json!({
"id": 8,
"name": "Apple",
"cake_id": 1,
}))?;

assert_eq!(
fruit,
fruit::ActiveModel {
id: ActiveValue::Set(1),
name: ActiveValue::Set("Apple".to_owned()),
cake_id: ActiveValue::Set(Some(1)),
}
);

Create a new ActiveModel from JSON value with the from_json method.

let fruit = fruit::ActiveModel::from_json(json!({
"name": "Apple",
}))?;

assert_eq!(
fruit,
fruit::ActiveModel {
id: ActiveValue::NotSet,
name: ActiveValue::Set("Apple".to_owned()),
cake_id: ActiveValue::NotSet,
}
);
Proposed by:

qltk
Contributed by:

Billy Chan

Support time crate in Model​

[#602] You can define datetime column in Model with time crate. You can migrate your Model originally defined in chrono to time crate.

Model defined in chrono crate.

use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "transaction_log")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub date: Date, // chrono::NaiveDate
pub time: Time, // chrono::NaiveTime
pub date_time: DateTime, // chrono::NaiveDateTime
pub date_time_tz: DateTimeWithTimeZone, // chrono::DateTime<chrono::FixedOffset>
}

#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, EnumIter, DeriveRelation)]
pub enum Relation {}

impl ActiveModelBehavior for ActiveModel {}

Model defined in time crate.

use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "transaction_log")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub date: TimeDate, // time::Date
pub time: TimeTime, // time::Time
pub date_time: TimeDateTime, // time::PrimitiveDateTime
pub date_time_tz: TimeDateTimeWithTimeZone, // time::OffsetDateTime
}

#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, EnumIter, DeriveRelation)]
pub enum Relation {}

impl ActiveModelBehavior for ActiveModel {}
Proposed by:

Tom Hacohen
Contributed by:

Billy Chan

Delete by Primary Key​

[#590] Instead of selecting Model from the database then deleting it. You could also delete a row from database directly by its primary key.

let res: DeleteResult = Fruit::delete_by_id(38).exec(db).await?;
assert_eq!(res.rows_affected, 1);
Proposed by:

Shouvik Ghosh
Contributed by:

Zhenwei Guo

Paginate Results from Raw Query​

[#617] You can paginate SelectorRaw and fetch Model in batch.

let mut cake_pages = cake::Entity::find()
.from_raw_sql(Statement::from_sql_and_values(
DbBackend::Postgres,
r#"SELECT "cake"."id", "cake"."name" FROM "cake" WHERE "id" = $1"#,
vec![1.into()],
))
.paginate(db, 50);

while let Some(cakes) = cake_pages.fetch_and_next().await? {
// Do something on cakes: Vec<cake::Model>
}
Proposed by:

Bastian
Contributed by:

shinbunbun

Create Database Index​

[#593] To create indexes in database instead of writing IndexCreateStatement manually, you can derive it from Entity using Schema::create_index_from_entity.

use sea_orm::{sea_query, tests_cfg::*, Schema};

let builder = db.get_database_backend();
let schema = Schema::new(builder);

let stmts = schema.create_index_from_entity(indexes::Entity);
assert_eq!(stmts.len(), 2);

let idx = sea_query::Index::create()
.name("idx-indexes-index1_attr")
.table(indexes::Entity)
.col(indexes::Column::Index1Attr)
.to_owned();
assert_eq!(builder.build(&stmts[0]), builder.build(&idx));

let idx = sea_query::Index::create()
.name("idx-indexes-index2_attr")
.table(indexes::Entity)
.col(indexes::Column::Index2Attr)
.to_owned();
assert_eq!(builder.build(&stmts[1]), builder.build(&idx));
Proposed by:

Jochen GΓΆrtler
Contributed by:

Nick Burrett

Our GitHub Sponsor profile is up! If you feel generous, a small donation will be greatly appreciated.

A big shout out to our sponsors πŸ˜‡:

Γ‰mile Fugulin
Zachary Vander Velden
Dean Sheather
Shane Sveller
Sakti Dwi Cahyono
Unnamed Sponsor

Community​

SeaQL is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together build for Rust's future.

Here is the roadmap for SeaORM 0.8.x.

GSoC 2022​

We are super excited to be selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization. Prospective contributors, please visit our GSoC 2022 Organization Profile!

Β· 2 min read
SeaQL Team

GSoC 2022 Organization Profile

We are super excited to be selected as a Google Summer of Code 2022 mentor organization. Thank you everyone in the SeaQL community for your support and adoption!

In 2020, when we were developing systems in Rust, we noticed a missing piece in the ecosystem: an ORM that integrates well with the Rust async ecosystem. With that in mind, we designed SeaORM to have a familiar API that welcomes developers from node.js, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby and your favourite language.

The first piece of tool we released is SeaQuery, a query builder with a fluent API. It has a simplified AST that reflects SQL syntax. It frees you from stitching strings together in case you needed to construct SQL dynamically and safely, with the advantages of Rust typings.

The second piece of tool is SeaSchema, a schema manager that allows you to discover and manipulate database schema. The type definition of the schema is database-specific and thus reflecting the features of MySQL, Postgres and SQLite tightly.

The third piece of tool is SeaORM, an Object Relational Mapper for building web services in Rust, whether it's REST, gRPC or GraphQL. We have "async & dynamic" in mind, so developers from dynamic languages can feel right at home.

But why stops at three?

This is just the foundation to setup Rust to be the best language for data engineering, and we have many more ideas on our idea list!

Your participation is what makes us unique; your adoption is what drives us forward.

Thank you everyone for all your karma, it's the Rust community here that makes it possible. We will gladly take the mission to nurture open source developers during GSoC.

Prospective contributors, stay in touch with us. We also welcome any discussion on the future of the Rust ecosystem and the SeaQL organization.

GSoC 2022 Idea List

Β· 5 min read
SeaQL Team

πŸŽ‰ We are pleased to release SeaORM 0.6.0 today! Here are some feature highlights 🌟:

Migration​

[#335] Version control you database schema with migrations written in SeaQuery or in raw SQL. View migration docs to learn more.

  1. Setup the migration directory by executing sea-orm-cli migrate init.

    migration
    β”œβ”€β”€ Cargo.toml
    β”œβ”€β”€ README.md
    └── src
    β”œβ”€β”€ lib.rs
    β”œβ”€β”€ m20220101_000001_create_table.rs
    └── main.rs
  2. Defines the migration in SeaQuery.

    use sea_schema::migration::prelude::*;

    pub struct Migration;

    impl MigrationName for Migration {
    fn name(&self) -> &str {
    "m20220101_000001_create_table"
    }
    }

    #[async_trait::async_trait]
    impl MigrationTrait for Migration {
    async fn up(&self, manager: &SchemaManager) -> Result<(), DbErr> {
    manager
    .create_table( ... )
    .await
    }

    async fn down(&self, manager: &SchemaManager) -> Result<(), DbErr> {
    manager
    .drop_table( ... )
    .await
    }
    }
  3. Apply the migration by executing sea-orm-cli migrate.

    $ sea-orm-cli migrate
    Applying all pending migrations
    Applying migration 'm20220101_000001_create_table'
    Migration 'm20220101_000001_create_table' has been applied
Designed by:

Chris Tsang
Contributed by:

Billy Chan

Support DateTimeUtc & DateTimeLocal in Model​

[#489] Represents database's timestamp column in Model with attribute of type DateTimeLocal (chrono::DateTime<Local>) or DateTimeUtc (chrono::DateTime<Utc>).

#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "satellite")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub satellite_name: String,
pub launch_date: DateTimeUtc,
pub deployment_date: DateTimeLocal,