tokio-postgres-mapper

tokio_postgres-mapper is a proc-macro designed to make mapping from postgresql tables to structs simple.

Why?

It can be frustrating to write a lot of boilerplate and, ultimately, duplicated code for mapping from postgres Rows into structs.

For example, this might be what someone would normally write:

extern crate postgres;

use postgres::rows::Row;

pub struct User {
    pub id: i64,
    pub name: String,
    pub email: Option<String>,
}

impl From<Row> for User {
    fn from(row: Row) -> Self {
        Self {
            id: row.get("id"),
            name: row.get("name"),
            email: row.get("email"),
        }
    }
}

// code to execute a query here and get back a row
let user = User::from(row); // this can panic

This becomes worse when manually implementating using the non-panicking get_opt method variant.

Using this crate, the boilerplate is removed, and panicking and non-panicking implementations are derived:

#[macro_use] extern crate tokio_postgres_mapper_derive;
extern crate tokio_postgres_mapper;

use tokio_postgres_mapper::FromPostgresRow;

#[derive(PostgresMapper)]
pub struct User {
    pub id: i64,
    pub name: String,
    pub email: Option<String>,
}

// Code to execute a query here and get back a row might now look like:
let stmt = "SELECT * FROM user WHERE username = $1 AND password = $2";

let user = client.query_one(stmt, &[&5, "asdf"]).await?;
let user = User::from(user);

The two crates

This repository contains two crates: postgres-mapper which contains an Error enum and traits for converting from a postgres or tokio-postgres Row without panicking, and postgres-mapper-derive which contains the proc-macro.

postgres-mapper-derive has 3 features that can be enabled (where T is the struct being derived with the provided PostgresMapper proc-macro):

• postgres-support, which derives impl<'a> From<::postgres::rows::Row<'a>> for T and impl<'a> From<&'a ::postgres::Row<'a>> for T implementations
• tokio-postgres-support, which derives impl From<::tokio_postgres::rows::Row> for T and impl From<&::tokio_postgres::rows::Row> for T implementations
• tokio-postgres-mapper which, for each of the above features, implements tokio-postgres-mapper's FromPostgresRow and/or FromTokioPostgresRow traits

tokio-postgres-mapper has two features, postgres-support and tokio-postgres-support. When one is enabled in tokio-postgres-mapper-derive, it must also be enabled in tokio-postgres-mapper.

Installation

Add the following to your Cargo.toml:

tokio-postgres-mapper = { git = "https://github.com/githubaccount624/tokio-postgres-mapper" }
tokio-postgres-mapper-derive = { git = "https://github.com/githubaccount624/tokio-postgres-mapper" }

This will derive implementations for converting from owned and referenced tokio-postgres::rows::Rows, as well as implementing tokio-postgres-mapper's FromTokioPostgresRow trait for non-panicking conversions.

License

ISC.