3rd-party surrealdb.com client for Dart

by Flutter Awesome

Experimental Dart support for SurrealDB. This package is a port of surreal.js.

Features

  • connect(url) – Connects to a local or remote database endpoint
  • wait() – Waits for the connection to the database to succeed
  • close() – Closes the persistent connection to the database
  • use(ns, db) – Switch to a specific namespace and database
  • signup(vars) – Signs this connection up to a specific authentication scope
  • signin(vars) – Signs this connection in to a specific authentication scope
  • invalidate() – Invalidates the authentication for the current connection
  • authenticate(token) – Authenticates the current connection with a JWT token
  • let(key, val) – Assigns a value as a parameter for this connection
  • query(sql, vars) – Runs a set of SurrealQL statements against the database
  • select(thing) – Selects all records in a table, or a specific record
  • create(thing, data) – Creates a record in the database
  • update(thing, data) – Updates all records in a table, or a specific record
  • change(thing, data) – Modifies all records in a table, or a specific record
  • modify(thing, data) – Applies JSON Patch changes to all records in a table, or a specific record
  • delete(thing) – Deletes all records, or a specific record

Getting started

For installation instructions and SurrealQL introduction visit SurrealDB docs.

Usage

  // Tell the client where to find your Surreal instance on the network.
  final client = SurrealClient(url: '...');
  
  // Sign in and specify which namespace and database client should be referring to.
  await client.signIn({'user': 'root', 'pass': 'root'});
  await client.use('test', 'test');

  // Create and read an article.
  await client.create('article', {'title': 'SurrealDB for Dart'});
  print(await client.select('article'));
  
  // Close the connection.
  client.close();

Additional information

This is a 3rd-party integration which happens to also be an experimental one. Keep that in mind when considering this package as a foundation of your project.

Contributions are welcome.

Planned improvements:

  • Add web support
  • Add types to outputs
  • Provide streams for client events

GitHub

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