# Zone Update
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A minimal Rust library providing CRUD-like operations on DNS records with various DNS providers.
## Overview
Zone Update is a lightweight library that provides a simple interface for
programmatically managing DNS zone records through provider APIs.
The library is both blocking and async, and supports multiple async runtimes
(see below).
### Supported DNS providers
Currently, Zone Update supports the following DNS providers:
* Cloudflare
* deSEC
* DigitalOcean
* Dnsimple
* DnsMadeEasy
* Gandi
* Linode
* Porkbun
See the [DNS providers matrix](docs/PROVIDERS.md) for more details.
### Supported platforms
`zone-update` supports both blocking and async APIs. For async the library
attempts to be as provider-agnostic; it is known (tested) to work with the
following runtimes:
* [tokio](https://tokio.rs/)
* [smol](https://docs.rs/smol/)
* [compio](https://compio.rs/)
* [monoio](https://github.com/bytedance/monoio)
* [glommio](https://github.com/DataDog/glommio)
`zone-update` is tested against Linux, Mac & Windows.
### Feature flags
Each DNS provider is gated behind their name, however all provider are enabled
by default. To limit the providers you can add `zone-update` to your
`Cargo.toml` in the following format:
```text
zone-update = { version = "*", default-features = false, features = ["digitalocean", "desec"] }
```
The other notable flag is `async`, which is not enabled by default.
## Usage
### Basic Example
```rust
use zone_update::{gandi, DnsProvider, errors::Result};
use std::net::Ipv4Addr;
fn update_gandi_record() -> Result<()> {
let config = zone_update::Config {
domain: "example.com".to_string(),
dry_run: false,
};
let auth = gandi::Auth::ApiKey("your-api-key".to_string());
let client = gandi::Gandi::new(config, auth);
let host = "www";
let new_ip = Ipv4Addr::new(192, 0, 2, 1);
// Update the A record for www.example.com
client.update_a_record(host, &new_ip)?;
Ok(())
}
```
### Provider lookup from configuration file
The `Provider` enum supports deserialisation with serde, which allows runtime
lookup of DNS providers from a configuration file:
```rust
use serde::Deserialize;
use zone_update::{Provider, errors::Result};
use std::net::Ipv4Addr;
const CONFIG_TOML: &str = r#"
domain = "example.com"
dry_run = true
[provider]
name = "porkbun"
key = "my_key"
secret = "my_secret"
"#;
#[derive(Deserialize)]
pub struct MyConfig {
domain: String,
dry_run: bool,
provider: Provider,
}
fn update_website_record() -> Result<()> {
let config: MyConfig = toml::from_str(CONFIG_TOML).unwrap();
let zu_config = zone_update::Config {
domain: config.domain,
dry_run: config.dry_run,
};
let client = config.provider
.blocking_impl(zu_config);
let host = "www";
let new_ip = Ipv4Addr::new(192, 0, 2, 1);
// Update the A record for www.example.com
client.update_a_record(host, &new_ip)?;
Ok(())
}
```
See the `examples` directory for other use-cases.
## Contributing
At this point the most useful contributions would be to add additional DNS
provider APIs. However other contributions are welcome.
### Steps for adding a new provider
This needs to be expanded, and the existing implementations are currently your
best reference, but is a basic checklist:
* Create a new module directory under `src` and add `mod.rs` and (recommended)
`types.rs`. Create the appropriate features flags in `Cargo.toml`.
* Add the necessary type structures with serde annotations; you will need to
consult the API documentation and/or experiment with `curl`.
* Create a structure for the provider implementation (usually just wrapping
`Auth` & `Config`.
* Implement the core CRUD operations in the `DnsProvider` trait for this
struct. This tends to be provider-specific, but most follow on of several
patterns. The existing implementations can be consulted as a reference.
* Use the `generate_helpers` macro to fill out the rest of the trait.
* Create a test module and use the `generate_tests` macro to create the standard
tests.
* Run the tests against a sandbox or working account (_Do Not Skip This Step_).
* Once the blocking API implemented the async implementation is generated by
macros. See an existing provider impl.
* Add you provider to the `Provider` enum and its impl.
* Raise a PR.
### AI Contribution Policy
This reason this project will not accept runtime code generated by
AI. Generation of _draft_ documentation and test code is acceptable, but should
be reviewed by the submitter before raising a PR.
## License
This project is licensed under either of:
- Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE-2.0.txt))
- MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT))
at your option.