rquery-orm

Lightweight ORM for Rust providing a SQL style query builder over SQL Server and PostgreSQL. It exposes a small set of traits and a derive macro so your structs become database entities, while all SQL is generated through a typed DSL.

Connecting to the database

use rquery_orm::connect_postgres;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
    // PostgreSQL connection
    let db = connect_postgres("localhost", 5432, "mydb", "postgres", "secret").await?;
    Ok(())
}

For SQL Server use connect_mssql instead.

Declaring an entity

Annotate your struct with #[derive(Entity)] and mark each column:

use chrono::NaiveDateTime;
use rquery_orm::Entity;

#[derive(Entity, Debug, Clone)]
#[table(name = "Employees")]
pub struct Employees {
    #[key(is_identity = true)]
    pub employee_id: i32,
    #[column]
    pub first_name: String,
    #[column]
    pub last_name: String,
    #[column]
    pub age: i32,
    #[column]
    pub hire_date: NaiveDateTime,
}

Building queries

All queries start from a GenericRepository tied to an entity. Chaining methods configures the SQL without executing it until an async terminal call:

use rquery_orm::{col, on, condition, GenericRepository, JoinType, QueryExecutor};

let repo = GenericRepository::<Employees>::new(db);
let rows = repo
    .Select()
    .Join(JoinType::Left, on!(Employees::country_id == Countries::country_id))
    .Where(condition!(Employees::country_id == "Mex"))
    .OrderBy("Employees.HireDate DESC")
    .Top(10)
    .to_list_async()
    .await?;

Join

• Typed (recommended): uses compile-time entity and field names.

use rquery_orm::{on, JoinType};
let rows = repo
    .Select()
    .Join(JoinType::Left, on!(Employees::country_id == Countries::country_id))
    .to_list_async()
    .await?;

• String-based (aliasing): handy for complex/manual joins or aliases.

use rquery_orm::{col, JoinType};
let rows = repo
    .Select()
    .Join(
        JoinType::Left,
        "Countries C",
        col!("Employees.CountryId").eq(col!("C.CountryId")),
    )
    .to_list_async()
    .await?;

Where

• Column = value (typed):

use rquery_orm::condition;
let rows = repo
    .Select()
    .Where(condition!(Employees::country_id == "Mex"))
    .to_list_async()
    .await?;

• Column = column (typed):

use rquery_orm::{on, condition, JoinType};
let rows = repo
    .Select()
    .Join(JoinType::Left, on!(Employees::country_id == Countries::country_id))
    .Where(condition!(Employees::country_id == Countries::country_id))
    .to_list_async()
    .await?;

• With aliases or ad-hoc paths (string literal):

use rquery_orm::condition;
let rows = repo
    .Select()
    .Where(condition!("E.CountryId" == "Mex"))
    .to_list_async()
    .await?;

Insert

let employee = Employees { employee_id: 0, first_name: "Ann".into(), last_name: "Lee".into(), age: 30, hire_date: chrono::Utc::now().naive_utc() };
repo.insert_async(&employee).await?;

Update

let mut e = rows[0].clone();
e.last_name = "Updated".into();
repo.update_async(&e).await?;

Delete

repo.delete_by_key_async(val!(e.employee_id)).await?;

Validations

Columns can declare validation rules so validate() and CRUD operations fail fast before reaching the database:

use rquery_orm::Entity;

#[derive(Entity)]
#[table(name = "Users")]
pub struct User {
    #[key(is_identity = true)]
    pub id: i32,
    #[column(required, max_length = 30, error_required = "Username is required", error_max_length = "Max 30 chars")]
    pub username: String,
    #[column(regex = "^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$", error_regex = "Invalid email format")]
    pub email: String,
}

let user = User { id: 0, username: "".into(), email: "bad".into() };
if let Err(errors) = user.validate() {
    for e in errors { println!("{e}"); }
}

When using repository methods like insert_async or update_async, validation runs automatically; failed validation aborts the operation.

Dual repository + typed join

use rquery_orm::{on, GenericRepository, JoinType};
let pairs: Vec<(Employees, Countries)> = GenericRepository::<(Employees, Countries)>::new(db)
    .Select()
    .Join(JoinType::Left, on!(Employees::country_id == Countries::country_id))
    .Top(10)
    .to_list_async()
    .await?;

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See examples/usage.rs and the tests folder for additional scenarios.