edgedb_codegen

Generate fully typed rust code from your EdgeDB schema and inline queries.

Installation

To install the edgedb_codegen crate you can use the following command.

cargo add edgedb_codegen

Or directly add the following to your Cargo.toml file.

edgedb_codegen = "0.2"

Follow the Quickstart Guide to make sure your edgedb instance is running. The macro relies on the running edgedb instance to parse the output of the provided query string.

Usage

When working with edgedb you often need to write queries and also provide the typed for both the input and output. Your code is only checked at runtime which increases the risk of bugs and errors.

Fortunately, edgedb has a query language that is typed and can be converted into types and queried for correctness at compile time.

Inline Queries

use edgedb_codegen::edgedb_query;
use edgedb_errors::Error;
use edgedb_tokio::create_client;

// Creates a module called `simple` with a function called `query` and structs
// for the `Input` and `Output`.
edgedb_query!(
	simple,
	"select { hello := \"world\", custom := <str>$custom }"
);

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
	let client = create_client().await?;
	let input = simple::Input {
		custom: String::from("custom"),
	};

	// For queries the following code can be used.
	let output = simple::query(&client, &input).await?;

	Ok(())
}

The macro above generates the following code:

pub mod simple {
	use ::edgedb_codegen::exports as e;
	/// Execute the desired query.
	#[cfg(feature = "query")]
	pub async fn query(
		client: &e::edgedb_tokio::Client,
		props: &Input,
	) -> core::result::Result<Output, e::edgedb_errors::Error> {
		client.query_required_single(QUERY, props).await
	}
	/// Compose the query as part of a larger transaction.
	#[cfg(feature = "query")]
	pub async fn transaction(
		conn: &mut e::edgedb_tokio::Transaction,
		props: &Input,
	) -> core::result::Result<Output, e::edgedb_errors::Error> {
		conn.query_required_single(QUERY, props).await
	}
	#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
	#[cfg_attr(feature = "builder", derive(e::typed_builder::TypedBuilder))]
	#[cfg_attr(feature = "query", derive(e::edgedb_derive::Queryable))]
	#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(e::serde::Serialize, e::serde::Deserialize))]
	pub struct Input {
		#[cfg_attr(feature = "builder", builder(setter(into)))]
		pub custom: String,
	}
	impl e::edgedb_protocol::query_arg::QueryArgs for Input {
		fn encode(
			&self,
			encoder: &mut e::edgedb_protocol::query_arg::Encoder,
		) -> core::result::Result<(), e::edgedb_errors::Error> {
			let map = e::edgedb_protocol::named_args! {
				"custom" => self.custom.clone(),
			};
			map.encode(encoder)
		}
	}
	#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
	#[cfg_attr(feature = "query", derive(e::edgedb_derive::Queryable))]
	#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(e::serde::Serialize, e::serde::Deserialize))]
	pub struct Output {
		pub hello: String,
		pub custom: String,
	}
	/// The original query string provided to the macro. Can be reused in your
	/// codebase.
	pub const QUERY: &str = "select { hello := \"world\", custom := <str>$custom }";
}

Query Files

Define a query file in the queries directory of your crate called select_user.edgeql.

# queries/select_user.edgeql

select User {
  name,
  bio,
  slug,
} filter .slug = <str>$slug;

Then use the edgedb_query macro to import the query.

use edgedb_codegen::edgedb_query;
use edgedb_errors::Error;
use edgedb_tokio::create_client;

// Creates a module called `select_user` with public functions `transaction` and
// `query` as well as structs for the `Input` and `Output`.
edgedb_query!(select_user);

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
	let client = create_client().await?;

	// Generated code can be run inside a transaction.
	let result = client
		.transaction(|mut txn| {
			async move {
				let input = select_user::Input {
					slug: String::from("test"),
				};
				let output = select_user::transaction(&mut txn, &input).await?;
				Ok(output)
			}
		})
		.await?;

	Ok(())
}

Future Work

This crate is still in early development and there are several features that are not yet implemented.

Missing Types

Currently the following types are not supported:

• enum - currently all enums are represented as strings.
• MultiRange - The macro will panic if a multirange is used.

enum

Currently all enums are represented as strings.

In order to support full enum generation the edgedb-protocol crate needs to be updated to use the binary protocol 2.0. In the current 1.0 version the enum descriptors are returned without the name property.

Once this is implemented the macro will be able to generate the correct code.

However end users probably don't want multiple enums for each generated query module as this would break sharing. To get around this, there should be a macro for generating the shared types used by all other.

// lib.rs
use edgedb_codegen::generate_shared_types;

generate_shared_types!(); // exports the shared types to the `edb` module.

MultiRange

These are not currently exported by the edgedb-protocol so should be added in a PR to the edgedb-protocol crate, if they are still supported in the new protocol.

Configuration

Currently everything is hardcoded and the macro is not configurable.

The following configuration options should be added:

• Name of input struct (optional) - Input by default.
• Name of output struct (optional) - Output by default.
• Name of query function (optional) - query by default.
• Name of transaction function (optional) - transactionby default.
• Default location of queries (optional) - queries by default.
• Default crate export name for shared types (optional) - edb by default.
• Default edgedb instance (optional) - $EDGEDB_INSTANCE by default.
• Default edgedb branch (optional) - $EDGEDB_BRANCH by default.

Probably these should be read from the Cargo.toml file and parsed manually to prevent slowdowns from parsing the file.

LSP parsing

Currently the macro depends on having a running edgedb instance to parse the query string.

Once an LSP is created for edgedb it would make sense to switch from using string to using inline edgedb queries.

use edgedb_codegen::edgedb_query;

edgedb_query!(
	example,
	select User {**}
);

CLI

Create a edgedb_codegen_cli crate which supports generating the typed code into rust files rather than inline queries. This is useful for larger projects to prevent constantly compiling the queries on every change / build.

Features

• default — The default feature is with_all.
• with_bigint — Include the num-bigint dependency.
• with_bigdecimal — Use the bigdecimal crate.
• with_chrono — Use the chrono crate for all dates.
• with_all (enabled by default) — Include all additional types. This is included by default. Use default-features = false to disable.
• builder — Use the typed-builder crate to generate the builders for the generated Input structs.
• query — Turn on the query and transaction methods and anything that relies on edgedb-tokio. The reason to separate this feature is to enable usage of this macro in browser environments where edgedb-tokio is not feasible.
• serde — Enable serde for the generated code.

Contributing

devenv is used to provide a reproducible development environment for this project. Follow the getting started instructions.

To automatically load the environment you should install direnv and then load the direnv.

# The security mechanism didn't allow to load the `.envrc`.
# Since we trust it, let's allow it execution.
direnv allow .

At this point you should see the nix commands available in your terminal.

Run the following commands to install all the required dependencies.

install:all

This installs all the cargo binaries locally so you don't need to worry about polluting your global namespace.

At this point you must setup the edgedb instance.

db:setup # setup the edgedb instance

Now you can make your changes and run tests.

test:all

Available Commands

• build:all: Build all crates with all features activated.
• build:docs: Build documentation site.
• coverage:all: Test all files and generate a coverage report for upload to codecov.
• db:destroy: Destroy the local database.
• db:setup: Setup the local database.
• db:up: Watch changes to the local database.
• fix:all: Fix all fixable lint issues.
• fix:clippy: Fix fixable lint issues raised by rust clippy.
• fix:format: Fix formatting for entire project.
• install:all: Install all dependencies.
• install:cargo:bin: Install cargo binaries locally.
• lint:all: Lint all project files.
• lint:clippy: Check rust clippy lints.
• lint:format: Check all formatting is correct.
• setup:ci: Setup the github ci environment.
• setup:helix: Setup the helix editor for development.
• setup:vscode: Setup the vscode editor for development.
• test:all: Test all project files.
• update:deps: Update dependencies.

Upgrading devenv

If you have an outdated version of devenv you can update it by running the following commands. If you have an easier way, please create a PR and I'll update these docs.

nix profile list # find the index of the devenv package
nix profile remove <index>
nix profile install ---accept-flake-config nixpkgs#devenv

Editor Setup

To setup recommended configuration for your favorite editor run the following commands.

setup:vscode # Setup vscode with recommended configuration

setup:helix # Setup helix with recommended configuration

License

Unlicense, see the license file.