Serve a RESTful API from any SQLite database

sqlite-rest is similar to PostgREST, but for SQLite. It's a standalone web server that adds a RESTful API to any SQLite database.

Installation

Build From Source

$ go install github.com/b4fun/sqlite-rest@latest
$ sqlite-rest
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Using docker image

$ docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/b4fun/sqlite-rest/server:main
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Quick Start

Suppose we are serving a book store database with the following schema:

CREATE TABLE books (
  id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
  title TEXT NOT NULL,
  author TEXT NOT NULL,
  price REAL NOT NULL
);

Create a database

$ sqlite3 bookstore.sqlite3 < examples/bookstore/data.sql

Start server

$ echo -n "topsecret" > test.token
$ sqlite-rest serve --auth-token-file test.token --security-allow-table books --db-dsn ./bookstore.sqlite3
{"level":"info","ts":1672528510.825417,"logger":"db-server","caller":"sqlite-rest/server.go:121","msg":"server started","addr":":8080"}
... <omitted logs>

Generate authentication token

NOTE: the following steps create a sample token for testing only, please use a strong password in production.

• Visit https://jwt.io/

• Choose HS256 as the algorithm

• Enter topsecret as the secret

• Copy the encoded JWT from the encoded output

• Export the token as an environment variable

  $ export AUTH_TOKEN=<encoded jwt>
  

Querying

Querying by book id

$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTH_TOKEN" http://127.0.0.1:8080/books?id=eq.1
[
 {
  "author": "Stephen King",
  "id": 1,
  "price": 23.54,
  "title": "Fairy Tale"
 }
]

Querying by book price

$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUTH_TOKEN" http://127.0.0.1:8080/books?price=lt.10
[
 {
  "author": "Alice Hoffman",
  "id": 2,
  "price": 1.99,
  "title": "The Bookstore Sisters: A Short Story"
 },
 {
  "author": "Caroline Peckham",
  "id": 4,
  "price": 8.99,
  "title": "Zodiac Academy 8: Sorrow and Starlight"
 }
]

Features

Parity with PostgRest

sqlite-rest aims to implement the same API as PostgRest. But currently not all of them are being implemented. Below is a list that features supported in sqlite-rest. If you need support for implementing a feature absent in the list, feel free to create an issue 😄

• Tables and Views
  • Horizontal Filtering (Rows)
  • Vrtical Filtering (Columns)
  • Unicode support
  • Ordering
  • Limit and Pagination
  • Exact Count
• Insertions
  • Specifying Columns
• Updates
• Upsert
• Deletions

Authentication

sqlite-rest provides built-in JWT based authentication. To use HS256 / HS384 / HS512 algorithm, please specific the token file to read from via --auth-token-file flag. To use RS256 / RS384 / RS512 algorithm, please specify the public key via --auth-rsa-public-key flag.

Tables/Views Access

By default, sqlite-rest exposes no tables/views from accessing. To allow access to specific tables/views, please use --security-allow-table flag:

one table

--security-allow-table books

multiple tables

--security-allow-table books,authors

Metrics

sqlite-rest exposes metrics via Prometheus format. By default, these metrics are exposed via :8081/metrics endpoint. To change the endpoint, please use --metrics-addr flag. To disable metrics, specific --metrics-addr to "".

Recorded metrics can be found in metrics.go.

Database Migrations

sqlite-rest supports database migrations via golang-migrate.

Apply migrations

$ sqlite-rest migrate --db-dsn ./bookstore.sqlite3 ./examples/migrations
{"level":"info","ts":1672614524.2731035,"logger":"db-migrator.up","caller":"sqlite-rest/migrate.go:136","msg":"applying operation"}
{"level":"info","ts":1672614524.3081956,"logger":"db-migrator.up","caller":"sqlite-rest/migrate.go:140","msg":"applied operation"}

Rollback migrations

$ sqlite-rest migrate --db-dsn ./bookstore.sqlite3 --direction down --step 1 ./examples/migrations

License

MIT