Hood

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROJECT IS CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF DEFINING IT'S API. IT CANNOT BE ASSUMED THAT THE API IS FIXED YET. IF YOU PLAN TO USE HOOD, PLEASE FORK IT!

Hood is a database agnostic ORM for Go developed by @eaignr. It was written with following points in mind:

• Chainable API
• Transaction support
• Model validations
• Model event hooks
• Database dialect interface
• No implicit fields
• Clean and testable codebase

Dialects currently supported

• Postgres using github.com/bmizerany/pq
• Sqlite3 ** (by lbolla) using github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3

** not registered by default, requires some packages installed on the system

Adding a dialect is as simple as copying the original postgres.go, replacing the statement and field values with the new dialect versions.

Documentation

GoDoc

Open

If the dialect is registered, you can open the database directly using

hd, err := hood.Open("postgres", "user=<username> dbname=<database>")

or you can pass an existing database and dialect to hood.New(*sql.DB, hood.Dialect)

hd, err := hood.New(db, &Postgres{})

Schemas

Schemas can be declared using the following syntax (only for demonstration purposes, would not produce valid SQL since it has 2 primary keys)

type Person struct {
	// Auto-incrementing int field 'id'
	Id hood.Id

	// Custom primary key field 'first_name', with presence validation
	FirstName string `sql:"pk" validate:"presence"`

	// Varchar field 'last_name' with size 128, NOT NULL
	LastName hood.VarChar `sql:"size(128),notnull"`

	// Varchar field 'tag' with size 255, default value 'customer'
	Tag hood.VarChar `sql:"default('customer')"`

	// You can also combine tags, default value 'orange'
	CombinedTags hood.VarChar `sql:"size(128),default('orange')"`
	Updated      time.Time    // timestamp field 'updated'
	Data         []byte       // data field 'data'
	IsAdmin      bool         // boolean field 'is_admin'
	Notes        string       // text field 'notes'

	// Validates number range
	Balance int `validate:"range(10:20)"`

	// ... and other built in types (int, uint, float...)
}

Schema creation is completely optional, you can use any other tool you like.

The following built in field properties are defined (via sql: tag):

• pk the field is a primary key
• notnull the field must be NOT NULL
• size(x) the field must have the specified size, e.g. for varchar size(128)
• default(x) the field has the specified default value, e.g. default(5) or default('orange')

Validation

Besides the sql: struct tag, you can specify a validate: tag for model validation:

• presence validates that a field is set
• len(min:max) validates that a string or VarChar field’s length lies within the specified range
  • len(min:) validates that it has the specified min length,
  • len(:max) or max length
• range(min:max) validates that an int value lies in the specific range
  • range(min:) validates that it has the specified min value,
  • range(:max) or max value

You can also define multiple validations on one field, e.g. validate:"len(:12),presence"

For more complex validations you can use custom validation methods. The methods are added to the schema and must start with Validate and return an error.

For example:

func (u *User) ValidateUsername() error {
	rx := regexp.MustCompile(`[a-z0-9]+`)
	if !rx.MatchString(u.Name) {
		return NewValidationError(1, "username contains invalid characters")
	}
	return nil
}

Hooks

You can add hooks to a model to run on a specific action like so:

func (u *User) BeforeUpdate() error {
	u.Updated = time.Now()
	return nil
}

If the hook returns an error on a Before- action it is not performed!

The following hooks are defined:

• Before/AfterSave
• Before/AfterInsert
• Before/AfterUpdate
• Before/AfterDelete

Example

package main

import (
	"hood"
)

func main() {
	// Open a DB connection, use New() alternatively for unregistered dialects
	hd, err := hood.Open("postgres", "user=hood dbname=hood_test sslmode=disable")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	// Create a table
	type Fruit struct {
		Id    hood.Id
		Name  string `validate:"presence"`
		Color string
	}

	err = hd.CreateTable(&Fruit{})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fruits := []Fruit{
		Fruit{Name: "banana", Color: "yellow"},
		Fruit{Name: "apple", Color: "red"},
		Fruit{Name: "grapefruit", Color: "yellow"},
		Fruit{Name: "grape", Color: "green"},
		Fruit{Name: "pear", Color: "yellow"},
	}

	// Start a transaction
	tx := hd.Begin()

	ids, err := tx.SaveAll(&fruits)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("inserted ids:", ids) // [1 2 3 4 5]

	// Commit changes
	err = tx.Commit()
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	// Ids are automatically updated
	if fruits[0].Id != 1 || fruits[1].Id != 2 || fruits[2].Id != 3 {
		panic("id not set")
	}

	// If an id is already set, a call to save will result in an update
	fruits[0].Color = "green"

	ids, err = hd.SaveAll(&fruits)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("updated ids:", ids) // [1 2 3 4 5]

	if fruits[0].Id != 1 || fruits[1].Id != 2 || fruits[2].Id != 3 {
		panic("id not set")
	}

	// Let's try to save a row that does not satisfy the required validations
	_, err = hd.Save(&Fruit{})
	if err == nil || err.Error() != "value not set" {
		panic("does not satisfy validations, should not save")
	}

	// Find
	//
	// The markers are db agnostic, so you can always use '?'
	// e.g. in Postgres they are replaced with $1, $2, ...
	var results []Fruit
	err = hd.Where("color = ?", "green").OrderBy("name").Limit(1).Find(&results)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("results:", results) // [{1 banana green}]

	// Delete
	ids, err = hd.DeleteAll(&results)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("deleted ids:", ids) // [1]

	results = nil
	err = hd.Find(&results)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Println("results:", results) // [{2 apple red} {3 grapefruit yellow} {4 grape green} {5 pear yellow}]

	// Drop
	hd.DropTable(&Fruit{})
}