graphql-engine/dc-agents/sqlite

Data Connector Agent for SQLite

This directory contains an SQLite implementation of a data connector agent. It can use local SQLite database files as referenced by the "db" config field.

Capabilities

The SQLite agent currently supports the following capabilities:

• GraphQL Schema
• GraphQL Queries
• Relationships
• Aggregations
• Prometheus Metrics
• Exposing Foreign-Key Information
• Mutations
• Native (Interpolated) Queries
• Subscriptions
• Streaming Subscriptions

Note: You are able to get detailed metadata about the agent's capabilities by GETting the /capabilities endpoint of the running agent.

Requirements

• NodeJS 16
• SQLite >= 3.38.0 or compiled in JSON support
  • Required for the json_group_array() and json_group_object() aggregate SQL functions
  • https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html#jgrouparray
• Note: NPM is used for the TS Types for the DC-API protocol

Build & Run

npm install
npm run build
npm run start

Or a simple dev-loop via entr:

echo src/**/*.ts | xargs -n1 echo | DB_READONLY=y entr -r npm run start

Docker Build & Run

> docker build . -t dc-sqlite-agent:latest
> docker run -it --rm -p 8100:8100 dc-sqlite-agent:latest

You will want to mount a volume with your database(s) so that they can be referenced in configuration.

Options / Environment Variables

Note: Boolean flags {FLAG} can be provided as 1, true, t, yes, y, or omitted and default to false.

ENV Variable Name	Format	Default	Info
PORT	INT	8100	Port for agent to listen on.
PERMISSIVE_CORS	{FLAG}	false	Allows all requests - Useful for testing with SwaggerUI. Turn off on production.
DB_CREATE	{FLAG}	false	Allows new databases to be created.
DB_READONLY	{FLAG}	false	Makes databases readonly.
DB_ALLOW_LIST	DB1[,DB2]*	Any Allowed	Restrict what databases can be connected to.
DB_PRIVATECACHE	{FLAG}	Shared	Keep caches between connections private.
DEBUGGING_TAGS	{FLAG}	false	Outputs xml style tags in query comments for deugging purposes.
PRETTY_PRINT_LOGS	{FLAG}	false	Uses pino-pretty to pretty print request logs
LOG_LEVEL	fatal | error | info | debug | trace | silent	info	The minimum log level to output
METRICS	{FLAG}	false	Enables a /metrics prometheus metrics endpoint.
QUERY_LENGTH_LIMIT	INT	Infinity	Puts a limit on the length of generated SQL before execution.
DATASETS	{FLAG}	false	Enable dataset operations
DATASET_DELETE	{FLAG}	false	Enable DELETE /datasets/:name
DATASET_TEMPLATES	DIRECTORY	./dataset_templates	Directory to clone datasets from.
DATASET_CLONES	DIRECTORY	./dataset_clones	Directory to clone datasets to.
MUTATIONS	{FLAG}	false	Enable Mutation Support.

Agent usage

The agent is configured as per the configuration schema. The valid configuration properties are:

Property	Type	Default
db	string
tables	string[]	null
include_sqlite_meta_tables	boolean	false
explicit_main_schema	boolean	false

The only required property is db which specifies a local sqlite database to use.

The schema is exposed via introspection, but you can limit which tables are referenced by

• Explicitly enumerating them via the tables property, or
• Toggling the include_sqlite_meta_tables to include or exclude sqlite meta tables.

The explicit_main_schema field can be set to opt into exposing tables by their fully qualified names (ie ["main", "MyTable"] instead of just ["MyTable"]).

Dataset

The dataset used for testing the reference agent is sourced from:

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lerocha/chinook-database/master/ChinookDatabase/DataSources/Chinook_Sqlite.sql

Datasets

Datasets support is enabled via the ENV variables:

• DATASETS
• DATASET_DELETE
• DATASET_TEMPLATES
• DATASET_CLONES

Templates will be looked up at ${DATASET_TEMPLATES}/${template_name}.sqlite or ${DATASET_TEMPLATES}/${template_name}.sql. The .sqlite templates are just SQLite database files that will be copied as a clone. The .sql templates are SQL script files that will be run against a blank SQLite database in order to create a clone.

Clones will be copied to ${DATASET_CLONES}/${clone_name}.sqlite.

Testing Changes to the Agent

Ensure you run the agent with DATASETS=1 DATASET_DELETE=1 MUTATIONS=1 in order to enable testing of mutations.

Then run:

cabal run dc-api:test:tests-dc-api -- test --agent-base-url http://localhost:8100 sandwich --tui

From the HGE repo.

Known Issues

• Using "returning" in insert/update/delete mutations where you join across relationships that are affected by the insert/update/delete mutation itself may return inconsistent results. This is because of this issue with SQLite: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/9470611066

TODO

• Prometheus metrics hosted at /metrics
• Pull reference types from a package rather than checked-in files
• Health Check
• DB Specific Health Checks
• Schema
• Capabilities
• Query
• Array Relationships
• Object Relationships
• Ensure everything is escaped correctly - https://sequelize.org/api/v6/class/src/sequelize.js~sequelize#instance-method-escape
• Or... Use parameterized queries if possible - https://sequelize.org/docs/v6/core-concepts/raw-queries/#bind-parameter
• Run test-suite from SDK
• Remove old queries module
• Relationships / Joins
• Rename resultTT and other badly named types in the schema.ts module
• Add ENV Variable for restriction on what databases can be used
• Update to the latest types
• Port back to hge codebase as an official reference agent
• Make escapeSQL global to the query module
• Make CORS permissions configurable
• Optional DB Allowlist
• Fix SDK Test suite to be more flexible about descriptions
• READONLY option
• CREATE option
• Don't create DB option
• Aggregate queries
• Verbosity settings
• Cache settings
• Missing WHERE clause from object relationships
• Reuse find_table_relationship in more scenarios
• ORDER clause in aggregates breaks SQLite parser for some reason
• Check that looped exist check doesn't cause name conflicts
• NOT EXISTS IS NULL != EXISTS IS NOT NULL
• Mutation support