flowglad-rs

A Rust client library for the FlowGlad billing API.

Overview

FlowGlad is an open-source billing infrastructure platform. This library provides a type-safe, ergonomic Rust interface to the FlowGlad API, with support for:

Customer management (create, retrieve, update, list)
Billing details and subscription information
Strongly-typed request/response models
Automatic retries with exponential backoff
Comprehensive error handling

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
flowglad = "0.1"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

Quick Start

use flowglad::{Client, Config};
use flowglad::types::customer::CreateCustomer;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    // Initialize the client
    let config = Config::new("sk_test_your_api_key");
    let client = Client::new(config)?;

    // Create a customer
    let customer = client
        .customers()
        .create(
            CreateCustomer::new("user_123", "Jane Doe")
                .email("jane@example.com")
        )
        .await?;

    println!("Created customer: {}", customer.id);

    // Retrieve the customer by external ID
    let retrieved = client.customers().get("user_123").await?;
    println!("Retrieved: {}", retrieved.name.unwrap_or_default());

    Ok(())
}

Configuration

Basic Configuration

use flowglad::Config;

let config = Config::new("sk_test_your_api_key");

Environment Variables

use flowglad::Config;

// Reads from FLOWGLAD_API_KEY environment variable
let config = Config::from_env()?;

Advanced Configuration

use flowglad::Config;
use std::time::Duration;

let config = Config::builder()
    .api_key("sk_test_your_api_key")
    .timeout(Duration::from_secs(60))
    .max_retries(5)
    .build()?;

Features

Type Safety

The library uses Rust's type system to prevent common mistakes:

use flowglad::types::customer::CreateCustomer;

// Compile-time enforcement of required fields
let customer = CreateCustomer::new("external_id", "customer_name")
    .email("optional@email.com")
    .phone("+1-555-0123");

Error Handling

Comprehensive error types for robust error handling:

use flowglad::Error;

match client.customers().get("user_123").await {
    Ok(customer) => println!("Found: {}", customer.id),
    Err(Error::Api { status, message, .. }) => {
        eprintln!("API error {}: {}", status, message);
    }
    Err(Error::Network(e)) => {
        eprintln!("Network error: {}", e);
    }
    Err(Error::RateLimit { retry_after }) => {
        eprintln!("Rate limited. Retry after: {:?}", retry_after);
    }
    Err(e) => {
        eprintln!("Error: {}", e);
    }
}

Automatic Retries

The client automatically retries failed requests with exponential backoff for:

500 Internal Server Error
502 Bad Gateway
503 Service Unavailable
504 Gateway Timeout

Configurable via Config::builder().max_retries().

Metadata Support

Store custom key-value data with any resource:

use serde_json::json;

let customer = client
    .customers()
    .create(
        CreateCustomer::new("user_123", "Jane Doe")
            .metadata("plan", json!("premium"))
            .metadata("tier", json!(3))
            .metadata("features", json!(["api_access", "sso"]))
    )
    .await?;

Examples

The examples/ directory contains comprehensive examples:

basic_customers.rs - CRUD operations for customers
customer_metadata.rs - Working with metadata
error_handling.rs - Robust error handling patterns

Run an example with:

FLOWGLAD_API_KEY=sk_test_... cargo run --example basic_customers

API Coverage

Customers

client.customers().create() - Create a new customer
client.customers().get() - Retrieve a customer by external ID
client.customers().update() - Update customer information
client.customers().list() - List all customers
client.customers().get_billing() - Get billing details for a customer

Testing

Running Tests

# Run unit tests
cargo test

# Run integration tests (requires API key)
FLOWGLAD_API_KEY=sk_test_... cargo test --test integration_tests

Environment Setup

For local development, create a .env file:

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and add your test API key

Integration tests will automatically load environment variables from .env if it exists.

Design Principles

External ID vs Internal ID

The FlowGlad API uses your system's identifiers (external IDs) for most operations:

// Create with your ID
let customer = client.customers()
    .create(CreateCustomer::new("user_123", "Jane"))
    .await?;

// customer.id is FlowGlad's internal ID (e.g., "cus_abc")
// customer.external_id is your ID ("user_123")

// Use external_id for retrieval and updates
let customer = client.customers().get("user_123").await?;

Builder Pattern

All create and update operations use the builder pattern for ergonomic, self-documenting code:

CreateCustomer::new("required_id", "required_name")
    .email("optional@example.com")  // Optional fields
    .phone("+1-555-0123")            // chain naturally
    .metadata("key", json!("value"));

Documentation

Full API documentation is available at docs.rs/flowglad.

Build documentation locally:

cargo doc --open

Requirements

Rust 1.70 or later
Tokio runtime for async support

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Before submitting:

# Run tests
cargo test --all-targets

# Check formatting
cargo fmt --check

# Run clippy
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Support

Documentation: docs.rs/flowglad
API Reference: FlowGlad API Docs
Issues: GitHub Issues

Acknowledgments

Built for the FlowGlad open-source billing platform.

flowglad 0.1.0