rete-cli

rete-cli installs the rete command for building, inspecting, verifying, and querying immutable .rete RDF graph files.

This is a 0.x release: the .rete format is already at stable generation 1, but the CLI surface carries no semantic-versioning promise until 1.0.0. Pin the exact version while the crates are 0.x:

cargo install rete-cli --version 0.5.2 --locked

Build and query

rete build graph.ttl -o graph.rete --pyramid-algo types --card
rete verify graph.rete
rete sparql graph.rete "SELECT ?s ?o WHERE { ?s <urn:knows> ?o } LIMIT 20"

Query a hosted file without downloading it first:

rete sparql-url https://example.net/graph.rete \
  "SELECT * WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } LIMIT 20"

The remote commands use HTTP byte ranges. Serve exact ranges with 206 and configure CORS for browser consumers. Exposing Content-Range saves an extra length probe for ordinary .rete files; see the hosting guide for fallback behavior.

For source builds, use the repository's Docker Compose/devcontainer toolchain; it pins Rust, Clippy, rustfmt, the WASM target, wasm-pack, Python, and uv.

See the CLI reference, the format compatibility policy, and docs.rs.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.