Surreal .NET

Database driver for SurrealDB available for REST and RPC sessions.

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Surreal .NET is a database driver for SurrealDB. The connector can access the database via JSON-RPC as well as REST.

Primary NuGet Packages

Name	Description	Nuget
`SurrealDB.Driver.Rpc`	Websocket RPC based database driver for SurrealDB
`SurrealDB.Driver.Rest`	REST based database driver for SurrealDB.
`SurrealDB.Extensions.Service`	Service integration into the ASP.NET Core ecosystem.

Documentation

The API Documentation is available here

Quick-start

Firstly install SurrealDB on your system. See the installation instructions:

# Brew
brew install surrealdb/tap/surreal
# Linux
curl -sSf https://install.surrealdb.com | sh
# Windows - system
choco install surreal --pre
# Windows - user
iwr https://windows.surrealdb.com -useb | iex

While Surreal .NET can be registered as a ASP.NET Core service for usage in a web API, the library can also be included in a console app.

I highly recommend taking a looksie at the examples, but for now let's review a basic console app with the RPC library.

<PackageReference Include="SurrealDB.Driver.Rest" Version="1.0.8" />

using SurrealDB.Configuration;
using SurrealDB.Driver.Rpc;
using SurrealDB.Models;

// start server: surreal start -b 0.0.0.0:8082 -u root -p root --log debug
// Create a configuration for the sever specified above.
Config cfg = Config.Create()
    .WithEndpoint("127.0.0.1:8082")
    .WithDatabase("test")
    .WithNamespace("test")
    .WithBasicAuth("root", "root")
    // Tell the configuration to connect to the server using RPC, and without TLS.
    .WithRpc(insecure: true).Build();

// Create a RPC database connection with the configuration.
DatabaseRpc db = new(cfg);
// Connect using the defined connection.
await db.Open();
// Create a struct with the fields we want to insert, nesting is supported.
Person you = new("Max Mustermann", 39, new("Musterstraße 1", 12345, "Musterstadt"), "0123456789", "max@mustermann.de");
// Insert the struct into the database, table = person, id = maxmustermann.
// If id` is not specified it will be random-generated, the id can be read from the response.
RpcResponse create = await db.Create("person:maxmustermann", you);
// Read the struct from the database to verify it was inserted correctly.
RpcResponse select = await db.Select("person:maxmustermann");
if (select.TryGetResult(out Result result)) {
    // Prints: {"address":{"city":"Musterstadt","street":"Musterstraße 1","zip":12345},"age":39,"email":"max@mustermann.de","id":"test:maxmustermann","name":"Max Mustermann","phone":"0123456789"}
    Console.WriteLine(result.Inner);
    Person alsoYou = result.GetObject<Person>();
    // Prints: Yes we equals? True
    Console.WriteLine($"Yes we equals? {you == alsoYou}");
}


/// <summary>
/// A Person.
/// </summary>
record struct Person(string name, int age, Address address, string phone, string email);

/// <summary>
/// The address of one or more people.
/// </summary>
record struct Address(string street, int zip, string city);

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