ehmicky / autoserver

Create a full-featured REST/GraphQL API from a configuration file

Create a full-featured REST/GraphQL API from a configuration file.

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Development status

This project is still in active development, and is not ready for production. Key features are currently missing.

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Overview

Create a simple configuration file describing your data model:

engine: 0
collections:
  users:
    description: User of the API
    attributes:
      id:
        type: string
      age:
        type: integer
      score:
        type: number
        alias: high_score
        default: 10
        validate:
          minimum: 20
      reports:
        type: reports[]
  reports:
    attributes:
      id:
        type: string
      content:
        type: string
  default:
    database: mongodb
databases:
  mongodb:
    hostname: localhost
    password: secret_mongodb_password
    dbname: my_database_name
protocols:
  http:
    port: 5001

Then start a full-featured web API.

$ autoserver

Clients will now be able to perform GraphQL requests:

{
  find_users(
    filter: { score: { _gt: 100 } }
    order: "score"
  ) {
    id
    age
    score
    reports: { content }
  }
}

Or REST requests:

GET /rest/users/?filter.score._gt=100&order=score&populate=reports

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "15",
      "age": 32,
      "score": 150,
      "reports": { "id": "65", "content": "..." }
    },
    {
      "id": "251",
      "age": 24,
      "score": 168,
      "reports": { "id": "67", "content": "..." }
    },
    {
      "id": "7",
      "age": 51,
      "score": 192,
      "reports": { "id": "10", "content": "..." }
    }
  ]
}

Features

• Multiple RPC systems, including REST, GraphQL and JSON-RPC
• GraphQL debugging, including introspection, interactive debugger and GraphQL schema printing
• Multiple databases support, including MongoDB and an in-memory database. Different databases can be used at the same time.
• Multiple protocols handling, with support for HTTP/1.1 only at the moment
• Multiple formats support for the configuration files, the client request payloads and the server responses, including JSON, YAML, x-www-form-urlencoded, JavaScript, Hjson, JSON5 and INI
• automatic logging and performance monitoring
• extensive error handling and reporting
• CRUD commands: find, create, patch, upsert, delete. Each command can be performed on a single model or on several models.
• Advanced mutations like incrementing, regular expression replacement, cross-attributes mutations, slicing, etc.
• relations, nested commands and populating between models, including for mutations
• filtering
• sorting
• selecting
• renaming attributes
• pagination
• input validation
• authorization, including readonly attributes
• default values
• computed attributes and normalization
• aliases
• automatic attributes: created_time, updated_time, created_by, updated_by
• compression of both the response and the request, for any protocol. Brotli support.
• dry runs
• silent outputs
• plugins
• custom logic can be added in JavaScript

Documentation

The documentation is here.

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autoserver's Issues

Tests

Hi, just discovered this repo, looks cool.
I would love to contribute, would you mind if I start adding a few unit tests? So I can take a bit of confidence with the project.

I saw your roadmap and testing doesn't look too far from the top right? 😄

MySQL/MariaDB support

I'm working on porting an app to autoserver, mostly to investigate how autoserver works and what the eventual benefits of it will be. The app is currently backed by a MySQL/MariaDB database. Could support for MySQL be added?

If I've missed a trick and it's already supported, could it be documented?