serde_rusqlite

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Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
serde_rusqlite = "0.10"

Serde Rusqlite

This crate provides convenience functions to bridge serde and rusqlite. With their help you can "deserialize" rusqlite Row's into serde Deserialize types and "serialize" types implementing Serialize into bound query arguments (positional or named) that rusqlite expects.

Serialization of named bound arguments is only supported from structs and maps because other serde types lack column name information. Likewise, serialization of positional bound arguments is only supported from tuples, sequences and primitive non-iterable types. In the latter case the result will be single-element vector. Each serialized field or element must implement rusqlite::types::ToSql.

SQLite only supports 5 types: NULL (None), INTEGER (i64), REAL (f64), TEXT (String) and BLOB (Vec<u8>). Corresponding rust types are inside brackets.

Some types employ non-trivial handling, these are described below:

• Serialization of u64 will fail if it can't be represented by i64 due to sqlite limitations.

• Simple enums will be serialized as strings so:

  enum Gender {
     M,
     F,
  }
  

  will have two possible TEXT options in the database "M" and "F". Deserialization into enum from TEXT is also supported.

• bools are serialized as INTEGERs 0 or 1, can be deserialized from INTEGER and REAL where 0 and 0.0 are false, anything else is true.

• f64 and f32 values of NaN are serialized as NULLs. When deserializing such value Option<f64> will have value of None and f64 will have value of NaN. The same applies to f32.

• Bytes, ByteBuf from serde_bytes are supported as optimized way of handling BLOBs.

• unit serializes to NULL.

• Only sequences of u8 are serialized and deserialized, BLOB database type is used. It's more optimal though to use Bytes and ByteBuf from serde_bytes for such fields.

• unit_struct serializes to struct name as TEXT, when deserializing the check is made to ensure that struct name coincides with the string in the database.

Examples

extern crate rusqlite;
#[macro_use]
extern crate serde_derive;
extern crate serde_rusqlite;

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, PartialEq)]
struct Example {
   id: i64,
   name: String,
}

fn main() {
   let connection = rusqlite::Connection::open_in_memory().unwrap();
   connection.execute("CREATE TABLE example (id INT, name TEXT)", &[]).unwrap();

   // using structure to generate named bound query arguments
   let row1 = Example{ id: 1, name: "first name".into() };
   connection.execute_named("INSERT INTO example (id, name) VALUES (:id, :name)", &serde_rusqlite::to_params_named(&row1).unwrap().to_slice()).unwrap();

   // using tuple to generate positional bound query arguments
   let row2 = (2, "second name");
   connection.execute("INSERT INTO example (id, name) VALUES (?, ?)", &serde_rusqlite::to_params(&row2).unwrap().to_slice()).unwrap();

   // deserializing data using query() and from_rows()
   let mut statement = connection.prepare("SELECT * FROM example").unwrap();
   let columns = serde_rusqlite::columns_from_statement(&statement);
   let mut res = serde_rusqlite::from_rows::<Example>(statement.query(&[]).unwrap(), &columns);
   assert_eq!(res.next().unwrap(), row1);
   assert_eq!(res.next().unwrap(), Example{ id: 2, name: "second name".into() });

   // deserializing data using query_map() and from_row()
   let mut statement = connection.prepare("SELECT * FROM example").unwrap();
   let columns = serde_rusqlite::columns_from_statement(&statement);
   let mut rows = statement.query_map(&[], |row| serde_rusqlite::from_row::<Example>(row, &columns).unwrap()).unwrap();
   assert_eq!(rows.next().unwrap().unwrap(), row1);
   assert_eq!(rows.next().unwrap().unwrap(), Example{ id: 2, name: "second name".into() });

   // deserializing data using query() and from_rows_ref()
   let mut statement = connection.prepare("SELECT * FROM example").unwrap();
   let columns = serde_rusqlite::columns_from_statement(&statement);
   let mut rows = statement.query(&[]).unwrap();
   {
      // only first record is deserialized here
      let mut res = serde_rusqlite::from_rows_ref::<Example>(&mut rows, &columns);
      assert_eq!(res.next().unwrap(), row1);
   }
   // the second record is deserialized using the original Rows iterator
   assert_eq!(serde_rusqlite::from_row::<Example>(&rows.next().unwrap().unwrap(), &columns).unwrap(), Example{ id: 2, name: "second name".into() });

}