Chain Builder

A typed, dialect-aware SQL query builder for Rust.

Generic over a Dialect (PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQLite), with typed bind parameters, automatic identifier escaping, dialect-correct placeholders ($N for Postgres, ? for MySQL/SQLite), and an sqlx handoff for execution.

v2.0 is a ground-up redesign. Upgrading from 1.x? See CHANGELOG — the API is entirely new (typed binds, Dialect-generic, no serde_json::Value in the core).

Documentation

User guide — full documentation site (queries, binds, errors, sqlx, cookbook).
API reference — rustdoc on docs.rs.
Changelog — release notes and breaking changes.

Features

Dialect-generic — one builder, three dialects; mixing them is a compile error.
Typed binds — pass real Rust values (i64, &str, Option<T>, …) via IntoBind.
Injection-safe — identifiers always escaped, values always bound.
Full query surface — SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, WHERE (+ or/and groups), JOINs, CTEs (WITH/RECURSIVE), UNION, GROUP BY/HAVING/ORDER BY, LIMIT/OFFSET.
Upsert + RETURNING — on_conflict_merge/_do_nothing, dialect-correct.
Row locking — for_update/for_share + skip_locked/no_wait (no-op on SQLite).
Aggregates — select_count/sum/avg/min/max (+ _as) and select_as.
db() qualification — multi-tenant (one connection, many databases).
Typed fetch — fetch_all::<T>/fetch_one/count/fetch_scalar via sqlx.
Dynamic — when/when_else, paginate, distinct/distinct_on, ilike, jsonb.

Installation

[dependencies]
# pick the driver(s) you need; the builder itself is driver-agnostic
chain-builder = { version = "3", features = ["sqlx_postgres"] }
sqlx = { version = "0.9", features = ["postgres", "runtime-tokio-rustls"] }

Driver features: sqlx_mysql (default), sqlx_sqlite, sqlx_postgres — enable any combination. json enables Value::Json.

Quick Start

use chain_builder::{QueryBuilder, Postgres, Order};

let (sql, binds) = QueryBuilder::<Postgres>::table("users")
    .db("mydb")
    .select(["id", "name"])
    .where_eq("status", "active")
    .where_in("role", ["admin", "staff"])
    .order_by("created_at", Order::Desc)
    .paginate(2, 20)
    .to_sql();
// SELECT "id", "name" FROM "mydb"."users"
//   WHERE "status" = $1 AND "role" IN ($2, $3)
//   ORDER BY "created_at" DESC LIMIT $4 OFFSET $5

// upsert + RETURNING
use chain_builder::{QueryBuilder, Postgres};
let q = QueryBuilder::<Postgres>::table("users")
    .insert([("email", "a@b.c"), ("name", "A")])
    .on_conflict_merge(["email"])
    .returning(["id"]);
// INSERT INTO "users" ("email", "name") VALUES ($1, $2)
//   ON CONFLICT ("email") DO UPDATE SET "name" = EXCLUDED."name" RETURNING "id"

// execute with sqlx (feature sqlx_postgres)
// let rows: Vec<UserRow> = q.fetch_all(&pool).await?;

Same builder, different dialect → MySQL backticks + ?:

use chain_builder::{QueryBuilder, MySql};
QueryBuilder::<MySql>::table("users").select(["id"]).where_eq("status", "active");
// SELECT `id` FROM `users` WHERE `status` = ?

Security

Two axes of SQL-injection safety:

Values are always sent as bound parameters (? / $N), never inlined.
Identifiers (table/column/alias names) are dialect-escaped automatically; qualified names (users.id) are escaped segment-by-segment ("users"."id"), * preserved. Pass bare names — do not pre-quote (it would be double-escaped).

The *_raw methods (select_raw, where_raw, group_by_raw, order_by_raw, on_raw, having_raw) and the having* helpers are verbatim escape hatches — never pass untrusted input through them.

Feature Flags

sqlx_mysql (default) — MySQL driver + SqlxDialect for MySql
sqlx_sqlite — SQLite driver + SqlxDialect for Sqlite
sqlx_postgres — PostgreSQL driver + SqlxDialect for Postgres
json — Value::Json + IntoBind for serde_json::Value
uuid — Value::Uuid + IntoBind for uuid::Uuid
chrono — date/time Value variants + IntoBind for chrono types
decimal — Value::Decimal + IntoBind for rust_decimal::Decimal

The query builder (to_sql()) works with no driver feature; a driver feature is only needed for the sqlx handoff (to_sqlx_query, fetch_*). All three drivers can be enabled simultaneously.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

chain-builder 3.1.0