# Ferrtable: Ferris the Crab's Favorite Airtable Client
Ferrtable provides async Rust bindings for a subset of the
[Airtable web API](https://airtable.com/developers/web/api/introduction).
Notably, it allows records to be read from and written to arbitrary Rust types
that implement the `Clone`, `serde::Deserialize`, and `serde::Serialize` traits.
This crate follows in the footsteps of the
[airtable-api](https://crates.io/crates/airtable-api) crate from Oxide Computer
Company, which appears to have been archived and unmaintained since 2022. By
comparison, Ferrtable aims to provide a more flexible and expressive client
interface as well as greater control over paginated responses with the help of
async [streams](https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-04-streams.html).
## Status: Work in Progress
Only a limited set of operations (e.g., creating and listing records) are
currently supported. The goal is to implement coverage for at least the full set
of non-enterprise API endpoints, but my initial emphasis is on getting a
relatively small subset built and tested well.
## Usage
```rust
use std::error::Error;
use futures::prelude::*;
// Ferrtable allows us to use any record types that implement Clone,
// Deserialize, and Serialize.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
struct MyRecord {
#[serde(rename = "Name")]
name: String,
#[serde(rename = "Notes")]
notes: String,
#[serde(rename = "Assignee")]
assignee: Option<String>,
#[serde(rename = "Status")]
status: Status,
#[serde(rename = "Attachments")]
attachments: Vec<ferrtable::cell_values::AttachmentRead>,
}
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Deserialize, Serialize)]
enum Status {
Todo,
#[serde(rename = "In progress")]
InProgress,
Done,
}
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
let client = ferrtable::Client::new_from_access_token("******").unwrap();
client
.create_records([MyRecord {
name: "Steal Improbability Drive".to_owned(),
notes: "Just for fun, no other reason.".to_owned(),
assignee: None,
status: Status::InProgress,
attachments: vec![],
}])
.with_base_id("***")
.with_table_id("***")
.execute()
.await?;
let mut rec_stream = client
.list_records()
.with_base_id("***")
.with_table_id("***")
.with_filter("{status} = 'Todo' || {status} = 'In Progress'")
.stream_items::<MyRecord>()?;
while let Some(result) = rec_stream.next().await {
dbg!(result?.fields);
}
Ok(())
}
```
## Crate Release Process
Maintainers: Eventually the release process should be automated, but until CI
runners are available for the repo, follow this checklist.
1. Lint:
```sh
cd ferrtable
cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy
cd ../ferrtable-test
cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy
```
2. Run integration tests:
```sh
cd ferrtable-test
cat <<EOF
access_token = "<AIRTABLE ACCESS TOKEN>"
base_id = "<BASE ID>"
table_id = "<TABLE ID>"
EOF > ferrtable-test.config.toml
cargo run
```
3. Run unit tests:
```sh
cd ferrtable
# At the time of this writing, nextest doesn't actually have anything to run,
# but it may in the future as tests are added outside of doc comments.
cargo nextest run --all-features --no-tests=warn
cargo test --doc
```
4. Bump `version` in `Cargo.toml`.
5. Update main package version in `ferrtable-test` lockfile:
```sh
cd ferrtable-test
cargo build
```
6. Commit and push changes.
7. Publish:
```sh
cargo publish
```