ormx

getting started

Add ormx and sqlx to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies.ormx]
version = "0.11"
features = ["postgres"]

[dependencies.sqlx]
version = "0.8"
features = ["postgres", "runtime-tokio-rustls"]

what does it do?

ormx provides macros for generating commonly used sql queries at compile time.
ormx is meant to be used together with sqlx. Everything it generates uses sqlx::query! under the hood, so every generated query will be checked against your database at compile time.

what doesn't it do?

ormx is not a full-fledged ORM nor a query builder. For everything except simple CRUD, you can always just use sqlx.

it is required that every table contains an id column, which uniquely identifies a row. probably, you would want to use an auto-incrementing integer for this. this is a central requirement of ormx, and if your table does not fulfill this requirement, ormx is not what you are looking for.

databases

[^1]: out of these three, the postgres backend is the most mature.
[^2]: the mysql backend does work with both MariaDB and MySQL, though the mariadb backend emits cleaner and probably faster queries.

example

first, start a postgres database.
if you have docker installed, you can do so using ./scripts/postgres.sh.
next, set the DATABASE_URL environment variable: export DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:admin@localhost/ormx.
now, inside example-postgres, use the sqlx cli to setup the database schema: cargo sqlx db setup.
finally, run cargo run.

help

if you encounter an issue or have questions, feel free to ask in #ormx on the sqlx discord.
The documentation currently is not what it should be, so don't be afraid to ask for help.

migrate

to 0.11

v0.11 updated the sqlx dependency to v0.8.
most notably, the semantics of the sqlx::Executor trait have somewhat changed. in most cases, this is fixed by adding a * here or there.

to 0.7

Since 0.7, id columns are not special anymore - if they are generated by the database, you must annotate them with #[ormx(default)].

a note on reborrowing

if you run into the issue that the compiler tells you that you can't re-use a &mut Connection because

• use of moved value and
• move occurs because 'con' has type '&mut Connection', which does not implement the 'Copy' trait

you'll have to manually reborrow the connection with &mut *con.