SurrealDB Erlang

SurrealDB driver for BEAM ecosystem

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SurrealDB Erlang, also referred to as "surreal", is a robust and maintainable SurrealDB driver for BEAM ecosystem.

The library draws inspiration from the official surrealdb.js implementation.

• Index
• Installation
• Getting Started
  • Creating a Connection
  • Example Usage
  • With Supervisor
  • Additional Examples
• Documentation
• Contributing
  • Note for Contributors
• License

SurrealDB Erlang is available on Hex.pm.

Add surreal to your list of dependencies in rebar.config file:

{deps, [{surreal, "2.1.0"}]}.

You can establish a database connection with surreal:start_link/2 (or surreal:start_link/3).

Check out SurrealDB URI format described in the documentation.

{ok, Pid} = surreal:start_link("surrealdb:https://root:root@localhost:8000/test/test", my_connection).

Alternatively, you can use the specified connection name, my_connection, in place of Pid, as shown below:

{ok, Users} = surreal:select(my_connection, "users").

SurrealDB Erlang offers users a clean API, demonstrated below:

1> {ok, User} = surreal:create(Pid, "users:meppu", #{<<"score">> => 10}).
   % {ok,#{<<"id">> => <<"users:meppu">>,<<"score">> => 10}}
2> {ok, NewUser} = surreal:merge(Pid, "users:meppu", #{<<"new">> => <<"key">>}).
   % {ok,#{<<"id">> => <<"users:meppu">>,<<"new">> => <<"key">>,
   %       <<"score">> => 10}}
3> [{ok, QueryResp}] = surreal:query(Pid, "SELECT * FROM users WHERE score = $score", #{<<"score">> => 10}).
   % [{ok,[#{<<"id">> => <<"users:meppu">>,<<"new">> => <<"key">>,
   %         <<"score">> => 10}]}]
4> {ok, RemovedUser} = surreal:delete(Pid, "users:meppu").
   % {ok,#{<<"id">> => <<"users:meppu">>,<<"new">> => <<"key">>,
   %       <<"score">> => 10}}
5> RemovedUser =:= NewUser.
   % true

The recommended approach to initialise a SurrealDB connection is through a supervisor.

You can use surreal:child_spec/1 to create a child specification for your supervisor, as shown below:

ChildSpecs = [
    surreal:child_spec({"surrealdb:https://root:root@localhost:8000/test/test", db_conn, #{}})
],

See additional examples in examples/ folder.

For detailed documentation, please refer to HexDocs.

Feel free to report bugs and request features through GitHub Issues.

If you wish to submit a pull request, ensure that your code is well-formatted and easily comprehensible.

Please send your pull requests to v2 branch instead of the main branch.

This helps us demostrate a stable version on the main branch while allowing for ongoing development and improvements on the v2 branch.

SurrealDB Erlang is licensed under the MIT License.