MyAxumServ

This is a demonstration of a simple CRUD web service for Rust, using axum as its web framework.

Why Axum?

According to crates.io, when we search for HTTP Server packages and sort by recent downloads, axum is, by a large margin, currently the web framework with the most community support and activity.

Design

Concerns are separated in this way, using the "List Users" (GET /api/v1/users) operation as an example:

(For simplicity, I've implemented a simple file data store, to serve as a plain, local DB client)

Operations

GET:list_users

curl localhost:3000/api/v1/users

POST:create_user

curl localhost:3000/api/v1/users -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data "{\"username\":\"myUsername\"}"

Dependencies

Web framework

• axum: The star of the show! This web service is built using this framework. Is owned by the tokio team.
• tokio: Transitive dependency of axum. It's only main use here is the annotation on the main() method.
• tower-service: Axum uses their Service concept as a more complete way to separate routers from handlers
• tower-layer: Axum uses its Layer concept to separate the router from the middleware. Also depends on Service.

ORM

• serde: Axum uses this to serialize and deserialize structs. In this application, it's mostly used to label things.
• serde_json: Only used for reading and writing from the resources/local_db.json file, for DB storage.

Dependency Injection

• shaku: A popular dependency injection framework, according to crates.io.
• shaku_axum: Adds an Inject trait, which integrates with Axum, so that we can query it in method handler signatures.

Utility

• uuid: To set user ID fields as UUIDv4 strings.