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SeaORM
SeaORM is a relational ORM to help you build web services in Rust with the familiarity of dynamic languages.
Getting Started
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Integration examples
- Actix v4 Example
- Actix v3 Example
- Axum Example
- GraphQL Example
- jsonrpsee Example
- Poem Example
- Rocket Example
- Salvo Example
- Tonic Example
Features
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Async
Relying on SQLx, SeaORM is a new library with async support from day 1.
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Dynamic
Built upon SeaQuery, SeaORM allows you to build complex queries without âfighting the ORMâ.
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Testable
Use mock connections to write unit tests for your logic.
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Service Oriented
Quickly build services that join, filter, sort and paginate data in APIs.
A quick taste of SeaORM
Entity
use sea_orm::entity::prelude::*;
#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DeriveEntityModel)]
#[sea_orm(table_name = "cake")]
pub struct Model {
#[sea_orm(primary_key)]
pub id: i32,
pub name: String,
}
#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, EnumIter, DeriveRelation)]
pub enum Relation {
#[sea_orm(has_many = "super::fruit::Entity")]
Fruit,
}
impl Related<super::fruit::Entity> for Entity {
fn to() -> RelationDef {
Relation::Fruit.def()
}
}
Select
// find all models
let cakes: Vec<cake::Model> = Cake::find().all(db).await?;
// find and filter
let chocolate: Vec<cake::Model> = Cake::find()
.filter(cake::Column::Name.contains("chocolate"))
.all(db)
.await?;
// find one model
let cheese: Option<cake::Model> = Cake::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let cheese: cake::Model = cheese.unwrap();
// find related models (lazy)
let fruits: Vec<fruit::Model> = cheese.find_related(Fruit).all(db).await?;
// find related models (eager)
let cake_with_fruits: Vec<(cake::Model, Vec<fruit::Model>)> =
Cake::find().find_with_related(Fruit).all(db).await?;
Insert
let apple = fruit::ActiveModel {
name: Set("Apple".to_owned()),
..Default::default() // no need to set primary key
};
let pear = fruit::ActiveModel {
name: Set("Pear".to_owned()),
..Default::default()
};
// insert one
let pear = pear.insert(db).await?;
// insert many
Fruit::insert_many([apple, pear]).exec(db).await?;
Update
use sea_orm::sea_query::{Expr, Value};
let pear: Option<fruit::Model> = Fruit::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let mut pear: fruit::ActiveModel = pear.unwrap().into();
pear.name = Set("Sweet pear".to_owned());
// update one
let pear: fruit::Model = pear.update(db).await?;
// update many: UPDATE "fruit" SET "cake_id" = NULL WHERE "fruit"."name" LIKE '%Apple%'
Fruit::update_many()
.col_expr(fruit::Column::CakeId, Expr::value(Value::Int(None)))
.filter(fruit::Column::Name.contains("Apple"))
.exec(db)
.await?;
Save
let banana = fruit::ActiveModel {
id: NotSet,
name: Set("Banana".to_owned()),
..Default::default()
};
// create, because primary key `id` is `NotSet`
let mut banana = banana.save(db).await?;
banana.name = Set("Banana Mongo".to_owned());
// update, because primary key `id` is `Set`
let banana = banana.save(db).await?;
Delete
// delete one
let orange: Option<fruit::Model> = Fruit::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let orange: fruit::Model = orange.unwrap();
fruit::Entity::delete(orange.into_active_model())
.exec(db)
.await?;
// or simply
let orange: Option<fruit::Model> = Fruit::find_by_id(1).one(db).await?;
let orange: fruit::Model = orange.unwrap();
orange.delete(db).await?;
// delete many: DELETE FROM "fruit" WHERE "fruit"."name" LIKE 'Orange'
fruit::Entity::delete_many()
.filter(fruit::Column::Name.contains("Orange"))
.exec(db)
.await?;
Learn More
Whoâs using SeaORM?
The following products are powered by SeaORM:
![]() A lightweight web security auditing toolkit |
The enterprise ready webhooks service |
A personal search engine |
SeaORM is the foundation of:
- StarfishQL: an experimental graph database
- Seaography: GraphQL framework for SeaORM
For more projects, see Built with SeaORM.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
SeaORM is a community driven project. We welcome you to participate, contribute and together help build Rustâs future.
A big shout out to our contributors:
Mascot
A friend of Ferris, Terres the hermit crab is the official mascot of SeaORM. His hobby is collecting shells.

Re-exports
pub use sea_query;
pub use strum;
pub use entity::*;
pub use error::*;
pub use query::*;
pub use schema::*;
Modules
- Module for the Entity type and operations
- Error types for all database operations
- Holds types and methods to perform metric collection
- Holds types and methods to perform queries
- Holds types that defines the schemas of an Entity
Macros
- Non-debug version
- Helper to get a raw SQL string from an object that impl
QueryTrait
. - Helper to get a
Statement
from an object that implQueryTrait
.
Structs
- Defines the configuration options of a database
- Cursor pagination
- Defines a database
- Defines a database transaction, whether it is an open transaction and the type of backend to use
- The result of a DELETE operation
- Handles DELETE operations in a ActiveModel using DeleteStatement
- Defines the result of executing an operation
- The result of an INSERT operation on an ActiveModel
- Defines a structure to perform INSERT operations in an ActiveModel
- Define a structure containing the numbers of items and pages of a Paginator
- MockDatabase
mock
Defines a Mock database suitable for testing - Defines a connection for the MockDatabase
- Defines a database driver for the MockDatabase
- MockExecResult
mock
Defines the results obtained from a MockDatabase - MockRow
mock
- OpenTransaction
mock
Defines a transaction that is has not been committed - Defined a structure to handle pagination of a result from a query operation on a Model
- Defines the result of a query operation on a Model
- The self-referencing struct.
- Get tuple from query result based on column index
- Get tuple from query result based on a list of column identifiers
- Defines a type to get a Model
- Defines a type to get two Models
- Defines a type to do
SELECT
operations through a SelectStatement on a Model - Performs a raw
SELECT
operation on a model - Defines the [sqlx::mysql] connector
- Defines a sqlx MySQL pool
- Defines the [sqlx::postgres] connector
- Defines a sqlx PostgreSQL pool
- Defines the [sqlx::sqlite] connector
- Defines a sqlx SQLite pool
- Defines an SQL statement
- Transaction
mock
Defines a database transaction as it holds a Vec<Statement> - The self-referencing struct.
- The result of an update operation on an ActiveModel
- Defines an update operation
Enums
- Access mode
- The type of database backend for real world databases. This is enabled by feature flags as specified in the crate documentation
- Handle a database connection depending on the backend enabled by the feature flags. This creates a database pool.
- Isolation level
- Defines errors for handling transaction failures
- An error from trying to get a row from a Model
- Value variants
Traits
- The generic API for a database connection that can perform query or execute statements. It abstracts database connection and transaction
- A trait for any type that can be turn into a cursor
- Identifier
- Identifier
- IntoMockRow
mock
A trait to get a MockRow from a type useful for testing in the MockDatabase - A Trait for any type wanting to perform operations on the MockDatabase
- A Trait for any type that can paginate results
- A Trait for any type that can perform SELECT queries
- Any type that can build a Statement
- Stream query results
- Spawn database transaction
- Try to convert a type to a u64
- An interface to get a value from the query result
- An interface to get a JSON from the query result
- An interface to get a tuple value from the query result
Functions
- Converts an [sqlx::error] connection error to a DbErr
- Converts an [sqlx::error] execution error to a DbErr
- Converts an [sqlx::error] query error to a DbErr
Type Definitions
- The same as DatabaseBackend just shorter :)
- The same as a DatabaseConnection
- Pin a Model so that stream operations can be performed on the model
Derive Macros
- A derive macro to implement
sea_orm::ActiveEnum
trait for enums. - The DeriveActiveModel derive macro will implement ActiveModelTrait for ActiveModel which provides setters and getters for all active values in the active model.
- Models that a user can override
- The DeriveColumn derive macro will implement [ColumnTrait] for Columns. It defines the identifier of each column by implementing Iden and IdenStatic. The EnumIter is also derived, allowing iteration over all enum variants.
- Derive a column if column names are not in snake-case
- Create an Entity
- This derive macro is the âalmightyâ macro which automatically generates Entity, Column, and PrimaryKey from a given Model.
- Derive into an active model
- The DeriveMigrationName derive macro will implement
sea_orm_migration::MigrationName
for a migration. - The DeriveModel derive macro will implement ModelTrait for Model, which provides setters and getters for all attributes in the mod It also implements FromQueryResult to convert a query result into the corresponding Model.
- The DerivePrimaryKey derive macro will implement [PrimaryKeyToColumn] for PrimaryKey which defines tedious mappings between primary keys and columns. The [EnumIter] is also derived, allowing iteration over all enum variants.
- The DeriveRelation derive macro will implement RelationTrait for Relation.
- Creates a new type that iterates of the variants of an enum.
- Convert a query result into the corresponding Model.