Toolkit for API in Rust
API Tools is a Rust library providing utilities for developing robust, consistent, and secure APIs.
It offers ready-to-use layers, extractors, error handling, and helpers designed to simplify API development,
especially with the Axum framework.
The toolkit aims to standardize common API patterns and reduce boilerplate in your Rust projects.
§Features list
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|
axum | Enable Axum feature | ❌ |
prometheus | Enable Prometheus metrics feature | ❌ |
full | Enable all features | ❌ |
§Components
§Value objects
| Name | Description |
|---|
UtcDateTime | A wrapper around chrono::DateTime to handle date and time values in UTC |
Timezone | A wrapper around chrono_tz::Tz to handle time zones |
Pagination | A struct to handle pagination parameters, including page number, page size and total count |
QuerySort | A struct to handle sorting query parameters, including field and direction |
§Axum
§Security
| Name | Description |
|---|
Jwt | A wrapper for JWT generation and parsing |
§Layers
| Name | Description |
|---|
BasicAuthLayer | Provides HTTP Basic Authentication middleware for protecting routes with username and password |
CorsLayer | Adds Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) headers to responses, allowing or restricting resource sharing between different origins |
HttpErrorsLayer | Middleware for intercepting and customizing HTTP error responses, enabling standardized error handling across your API |
LoggerLayer | Logs incoming requests and outgoing responses, useful for debugging and monitoring API activity |
RequestId | Middleware that generates and attaches a unique request identifier (UUID) to each incoming request for traceability |
TimeLimiterLayer | Middleware that restricts API usage to specific time slots. Outside of these allowed periods, it returns a 503 Service Unavailable error |
PrometheusLayer | Middleware that collects and exposes Prometheus-compatible metrics for monitoring API performance and usage |
SecurityHeadersLayer | Middleware add security headers like (CSP, etc.) |
§Utility functions
| Name | Description |
|---|
body_from_parts | Construct a response body from Parts, status code, message and headers |
header_value_to_str | Convert HeaderValue to &str |
| Name | Description |
|---|
ExtractRequestId | Extracts the unique request identifier (UUID) from the request headers |
Path | Extracts and deserializes path parameters from the request URL |
Query | Extracts and deserializes query string parameters from the request URL |
§Response helpers
| Name | Description |
|---|
ApiSuccess | Represents a successful API response (Status code and data in JSON). It implements the IntoResponse trait |
ApiError | Represents a list of HTTP errors |
ApiErrorResponse | Encapsulates the details of an API error response, including the status code and the error message |
§Handlers
| Name | Description |
|---|
PrometheusHandler | Handler that exposes Prometheus metrics endpoint, allowing metrics scraping by Prometheus servers |