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jmoiron / sqlx

sqlx

general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

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37Mentions
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general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

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Observed mentions: 2014-01-26 17:40:23 UTC to 2026-07-31 20:40:25 UTC.

024682014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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sqlx sqlx is a library which provides a set of extensions on go's standard database/sql library. The sqlx versions of sql.DB, sql.TX, sql.Stmt, et al. all leave the underlying interfaces untouched, so that their interfaces are a superset on the standard ones. This makes it relatively painless to integrate existing codebases using database/sql with sqlx. Major additional concepts are: Marshal rows into structs (with embedded struct support), maps, and slices Named parameter support including prepared statements Get and Select to go quickly from query to struct/slice In addition to the godoc API documentation, there is also some user documentation that explains how to use database/sql along with sqlx. Recent Changes 1.3.0: sqlx.DB.Connx(context.Context) *sqlx.Conn sqlx.BindDriver(driverName, bindType) support for []map[string]interface{} to do "batch" insertions allocation & perf improvements for sqlx.In DB.Connx returns an sqlx.Conn, which is an sql.Conn-alike consistent with sqlx's wrapping of other types. BindDriver allows users to control the bindvars that sqlx will use for drivers, and add new drivers at runtime. This results in a very slight performance hit when resolving the driver into a bind type (~40ns per call), but it allows users to specify what bindtype their driver uses even when sqlx has not been updated to know about it by default. Backwards Compatibility Compatibility with the most recent two versions of Go is a requirement for any new changes. Compatibility beyond that is not guaranteed. Versioning is done with Go modules. Breaking changes (eg. removing deprecated API) will get major version number bumps. install go get github.com/jmoiron/sqlx issues Row headers can be ambiguous (SELECT 1 AS a, 2 AS a), and the result of Columns() does not fully qualify column names in queries like: SELECT a.id, a.name, b.id, b.name FROM foos AS a JOIN foos AS b ON a.parent = b.id; making a struct or map destination ambiguous. Use AS in your queries to give columns distinct names, rows.Scan to scan them manually, or SliceScan to get a slice of results. usage Below is an example which shows some common use cases for sqlx. Check sqlx_test.go for more usage. package main import ( "database/sql" "fmt" "log" _ "github.com/lib/pq" "github.com/jmoiron/sqlx" ) var schema = ` CREATE TABLE person ( first_name text, last_name text, email text ); CREATE TABLE place ( country text, city text NULL, telcode integer )` type Person struct { FirstName string `db:"first_name"` LastName string `db:"last_name"` Email string } type Place struct { Country string City sql.NullString TelCode int } func main() { // this Pings the database trying to connect // use sqlx.Open() for sql.Open() semantics db, err := sqlx.Connect("postgres", "user=foo dbname=bar sslmode=disable") if err != nil { log.Fatalln(err) } // exec the schema or fail; multi-statement Exec behavior varies between // database drivers; pq will exec them all, sqlite3 won't, ymmv db.MustExec(schema) tx := db.MustBegin() tx.MustExec("INSERT INTO person (first_name, last_name, email) VALUES ($1, $2, $3)", "Jason", "Moiron", "jmoiron@jmoiron.net") tx.MustExec("INSERT INTO person (first_name, last_name, email) VALUES ($1, $2, $3)", "John", "Doe", "johndoeDNE@gmail.net") tx.MustExec("INSERT INTO place (country, city, telcode) VALUES ($1, $2, $3)", "United States", "New York", "1") tx.MustExec("INSERT INTO place (country, telcode) VALUES ($1, $2)", "Hong Kong", "852") tx.MustExec("INSERT INTO place (country, telcode) VALUES ($1, $2)", "Singapore", "65") // Named queries can use structs, so if you have an existing struct (i.e. person := &Person{}) that you have populated, you can pass it in as &person tx.NamedExec("INSERT INTO person (first_name, last_name, email) VALUES (:first_name, :last_name, :email)", &Person{"Jane", "Citizen", "jane.citzen@example.com"}) tx.Commit() // Query the database, storing results in a []Person (wrapped in []interface{}) people := []Person{} db.Select(&people, "SELECT * FROM person ORDER BY first_name ASC") jason, john := people[0], people[1] fmt.Printf("%#v\n%#v", jason, john) // Person{FirstName:"Jason", LastName:"Moiron", Email:"jmoiron@jmoiron.net"} // Person{FirstName:"John", LastName:"Doe", Email:"johndoeDNE@gmail.net"} // You can also get a single result, a la QueryRow jason = Person{} err = db.Get(&jason, "SELECT * FROM person WHERE first_name=$1", "Jason") fmt.Printf("%#v\n", jason) // Person{FirstName:"Jason", LastName:"Moiron", Email:"jmoiron@jmoiron.net"} // if you have null fields and use SELECT *, you must use sql.Null* in your struct places := []Place{} err = db.Select(&places, "SELECT * FROM place ORDER BY telcode ASC") if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } usa, singsing, honkers := places[0], places[1], places[2] fmt.Printf("%#v\n%#v\n%#v\n", usa, singsing, honkers) // Place{Country:"United States", City:sql.NullString{String:"New York", Valid:true}, TelCode:1} // Place{Country:"Singapore", City:sql.NullString{String:"", Valid:false}, TelCode:65} // Place{Country:"Hong Kong", City:sql.NullString{String:"", Valid:false}, TelCode:852} // Loop through rows using only one struct place := Place{} rows, err := db.Queryx("SELECT * FROM place") for rows.Next() { err := rows.StructScan(&place) if err != nil { log.Fatalln(err) } fmt.Printf("%#v\n", place) } // Place{Country:"United States", City:sql.NullString{String:"New York", Valid:true}, TelCode:1} // Place{Country:"Hong Kong", City:sql.NullString{String:"", Valid:false}, TelCode:852} // Place{Country:"Singapore", City:sql.NullString{String:"", Valid:false}, TelCode:65} // Named queries, u
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I've started using Echo[1] and it seems to provide most of what I'm looking for (routing, context, sessions, CSRF protection, form/json binding, etc). For templating, I'm using QuickTemplate[2] which creates statically generated templates, but Pongo2[3] and Jet[4] also look reasonable. sqlx[5], gorm[6], and sqlboiler[7] all seem reasonable for database access, depending on what your style is (sqlx being oriented toward manual statements, gorm being reflection-based orm-ish, and sqlboiler using go generate's code generation to make statically generated access for you). If you don't want to piece things together yourself (and want a more Rails-like experience), Buffalo[8] is probably your best bet. [1] https://echo.labstack.com/ [2] https://github.com/valyala/quicktemplate [3] https://github.com/flosch/pongo2 [4] https://github.com/Cloudy
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In Ask HN: What is your Golang web-dev tech stack?
The Go standard library has most of what you need for basic API servers. However as has been stated here, some things are not worth spending time crafting yourself. Also for modern Docker/Kubernetes ops environments you need some additional infrastructure for table stakes. Here's my standard Nulladmin.com stack: Routing - https://github.com/go-chi/chi Command flags - https://github.com/spf13/pflag Config - https://github.com/spf13/viper Logging - https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus Metrics - https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus SQL helper - https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx OpenTracing - https://github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go
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