(* Copyright (C) 2024--2025 Petter A. Urkedal * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your * option) any later version, with the LGPL-3.0 Linking Exception. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public * License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * and the LGPL-3.0 Linking Exception along with this library. If not, see * and , respectively. *) [@@@alert caqti_unstable "This library is a preview; expect incompatible changes without prior notice."] (** {2 Primitives} These modules are part of the stable API, but the casual user may find it sufficient to use the {!Create} module. *) (** {3 Prerequisities} *) module Shims = Shims module Version = Version module Dialect = Dialect (** {3 Data Types} *) module Constructor = Constructor module Field_type = Field_type module Row_type = Row_type module Row_mult = Row_mult module Row = Row module Type : sig include Row_type.STD include module type of Request_type.Infix end (** This module imports everything needed to describe a request type, including the parameter type, row type, and row multiplicity. *) (** {3 Request Templates} *) module Query = Query module Query_fmt = Query_fmt module Request = Request (** {2 Convenience} *) module type CREATE = sig (** This is a convenience API which collects everything needed to create {{!Caqti_template.Request} request templates}. A request template describes a database query and how to encode parameters and decode the result. {1 Basic Usage} Consider the example: {[ let bounds_upto_req = let open Caqti_template.Create in static T.(t2 int32 float -->! option (t2 float float)) "SELECT min(y), max(y) FROM samples WHERE series_id = ? AND x < ?" ]} First we opening the current module. We then pick the function {!static} to create a template for prepared queries where the query template has static lifetime. The first argument describes the parameter type and the result row type combined with an arrow which describes the multiplicity of the result rows. The exclamation mark in the arrow indicates that precisely one result row is expected. The second argument is the query template, here in the form of a string. In the query template, [?] refer to parameters, but you can also use the [PostgreSQL]-style [$1], [$2], etc. if you prefer, as long as you stick to the same convention for a given query template. Caqti drivers translate parameter references to fit the database system, rearranging parameters if necessary. Caqti provides a way to handle dialectical differences between database systems apart from the parameter syntax. The example above uses a shortcut, since it does not need this functionality. In the full form it looks like: {[ let bounds_upto_req = let open Caqti_template.Create in static_gen T.(t2 int32 float -->! option (t2 float float)) @@ Fun.const @@ Q.parse "SELECT min(y), max(y) FROM samples WHERE series_id = ? AND x < ?" ]} The callback receives a {!Dialect.t} and returns a {!Query.t}. We can now see that the still same query string is explicitly parsed. {!Query} and {!Query_fmt} provides alternative ways of constructing query template which is more suitable for dynamically generated queries. The following example makes use of the dialect argument to handle dialectical differences regarding string concatenation: {[ let concat_req = let open Caqti_template.Create in static_gen T.(t2 string string -->! string) @@ function | D.Mysql _ -> Q.parse "SELECT concat(?, ?)" | _ -> Q.parse "SELECT ? || ?" ]} In summary - Pick the main function according to the lifetime of prepared queries and whether to use the simplified or generic callback. - In the request type argument, the arrow decoration selects the expected multiplicity of result rows: [-->.] for zero, [-->!] for one, [-->?] for zero or one, [-->*] for zero or more. {1 Supplementing} If needed, you can supplement the current module with custom types: {[ module Ct : sig open Caqti_template include Caqti_template.CREATE module T : sig include module type of T val password : string Row_type.t val uri : Uri.t Row_type.t end end = struct open Caqti_template include Caqti_template.Create module T = struct include T let password = redacted string (* a string redacted from logs *) let uri = let encode x = Ok (Uri.to_string x) in let decode s = Ok (Uri.of_string s) in Row_type.custom ~encode ~decode string end end ]} *) (** {1 Reference} *) (** {2 Type Descriptors} *) module T = Type (** {2 Dialect Descriptors} *) module D = Dialect include module type of Version.Infix (** {2 Query Templates} *) module Q = Query module Qf = Query_fmt include module type of Query.Infix (** {2 Request Templates} The following are shortcuts for {!Request.create} and {!Query.parse} In particular {!static}, {!dynamic}, and {!direct} covers the most common case of sending a pre-composed query string to the database while the {!static_gen}, {!dynamic_gen}, and {!direct_gen} are the correspending fully generic variants. *) val static : ('a, 'b, 'm) Request_type.t -> string -> ('a, 'b, 'm) Request.t (** Creates a template of static lifetime for prepared requests where the query template is provided as a string to be parsed by {!Query.parse}. *) val static_gen : ('a, 'b, 'm) Request_type.t -> (Dialect.t -> Query.t) -> ('a, 'b, 'm) Request.t (** Creates a template of static lifetime for prepared requests where the query template is dialect-dependent and explicitly constructed by the caller. *) val dynamic : ('a, 'b, 'm) Request_type.t -> string -> ('a, 'b, 'm) Request.t (** Creates a template of static lifetime for prepared requests where the query template is provided as a string to be parsed by {!Query.parse}. *) val dynamic_gen : ('a, 'b, 'm) Request_type.t -> (Dialect.t -> Query.t) -> ('a, 'b, 'm) Request.t (** Creates a template of static lifetime for prepared requests where the query template is dialect-dependent and explicitly constructed by the caller. *) val direct : ('a, 'b, 'm) Request_type.t -> string -> ('a, 'b, 'm) Request.t (** Creates a template for non-prepared requests where the query template is provided as a string to be parsed by {!Query.parse}. If non-prepared requests are not unsupported by the driver, a temporarily prepared request is used instead. *) val direct_gen : ('a, 'b, 'm) Request_type.t -> (Dialect.t -> Query.t) -> ('a, 'b, 'm) Request.t (** Creates a template for non-prepared requests where the query template is dialect-dependent and explicitly constructed by the caller. If non-prepared requests are not unsupported by the driver, a temporarily prepared request is used instead. *) end module Create : CREATE