Crate serde_dynamo
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DynamoDB is an AWS database that stores key/value and document data.
serde_dynamo provides a way to serialize and deserialize between data stored in these items and strongly-typed Rust data structures.
The full power of serde
serde_dynamo supports the full power of serde.
Most uses of DynamoDB will involve simple structs mapping keys to values in type-safe ways.
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(transparent)]
pub struct UserId(String);
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct User {
id: UserId,
name: String,
age: u8,
}
More advanced usage – including flattening, adjacently tagged enums, and untagged enums – is fully supported.
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Message {
id: String,
#[serde(flatten)]
message_type: MessageType,
sent: DateTime<Utc>,
}
/// What type of message this is.
///
/// By the power of Rust enums and serde serializating, we can guarantee that we _either_ have
/// an email with all of its required fields, _or_ an SMS with all of its required fields.
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case", tag = "message_type", content = "message_payload")]
enum MessageType {
Email(Email),
Sms(Sms),
}
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct Email {
email: String,
#[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
name: Option<String>,
subject: String,
body: String,
}
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
struct Sms {
phone_number: String,
body: String,
}
let input = r#"
{
"id": "HWCqBFBG2Gl4",
"message_type": "sms",
"message_payload": {
"phone_number": "5551234567",
"body": "Good morning!"
},
"sent": "1985-04-21T11:12:13Z"
}
"#;
let message: Message = serde_json::from_str(input)?;
let item = to_item(message)?;
aws-sdk support
serde_dynamo works well with aws-sdk-dynamodb.
Add the following to your dependencies.
[dependencies]
serde_dynamo = { version = "4", features = ["aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_24"] }
See aws_sdk_dynamodb_0_24
for examples and more information. See
aws_sdk_dynamodbstreams_0_24
for DynamoDb streams support.
aws_lambda_events support
serde_dynamo works well with aws_lambda_events.
Add the following to your dependencies.
[dependencies]
serde_dynamo = { version = "4", features = ["aws_lambda_events+0.7"] }
See aws_lambda_events_0_7
for examples and more information.
rusoto support
serde_dynamo works well with rusoto_dynamodb.
Add the following to your dependencies.
[dependencies]
serde_dynamo = { version = "4", features = ["rusoto_dynamodb+0.48"] }
See rusoto_dynamodb_0_48
for examples and more information.
JSON
DynamoDB’s items share strong similarities with JSON, and it is very common to store JSON data in DynamoDB either directly or as a subfield.
To support this, serde_dynamo supports serializing JSON just like any other Rust data structure.
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
struct IncludesJson {
id: String,
data: serde_json::Value,
}
In addition, serde_dynamo also maps strongly-typed data structures nearly identically as serde_json. This means that, in almost all cases, serializing to JSON first and then to an DynamoDb item will result in the exact same representation as serializing directly to a DynamoDb item. (The caveat here is for byte data, which loses fidelity because JSON doesn’t support byte data natively, but DynamoDB does.)
let user = User {
name: "Arthur Dent".to_string(),
age: 42,
};
// Serialize directly from the data structure to an item
let direct_item = to_item(user.clone())?;
// Serialize indirectly through JSON
let json = serde_json::to_value(user.clone())?;
let indirect_item = to_item(json)?;
// The result should be the same!
assert_eq!(direct_item, indirect_item);
Features
serde_dynamo is a stable library ready to use in production. Because of that, it’s major version is above 1.0.
This creates problems when supporting dynamodb libraries that have version numbers less than 1.0.
To avoid doing a major version bump for every release of aws-sdk-dynamodb
and
rusoto_dynamodb
, serde_dynamo uses features to opt into the correct version of the
dynamodb library.
See the modules section for all possible features. Feature names are largely
guessable: the library name, a plus, and the library version (with underscores instead of dots,
because crates.io doesn’t support feature names with dots). For example, support for
aws-sdk-dynamodb
version 0.13
is enabled with the feature aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_13
.
Modules
aws_lambda_events+0_6
aws_lambda_events+0_7
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_7
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_8
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_9
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_10
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_11
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_12
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_13
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_14
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_15
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_16
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_17
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_18
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_19
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_21
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_22
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_23
aws-sdk-dynamodb+0_24
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_8
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_9
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_10
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_11
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_12
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_13
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_14
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_15
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_16
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_17
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_18
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_19
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_21
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_22
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_23
aws-sdk-dynamodbstreams+0_24
rusoto_dynamodb+0_46
rusoto_dynamodb+0_47
rusoto_dynamodb+0_48
rusoto_dynamodbstreams+0_46
rusoto_dynamodbstreams+0_47
rusoto_dynamodbstreams+0_48
Structs
AttributeValue
s into Rust values.AttributeValue
s.Enums
Functions
AttributeValue
as an instance of type T
.Items
as a Vec<T>
.T
into an AttributeValue
.Type Definitions
Result
with the error type serde_dynamo::Error