# GORM Yet Another ORM library for Go, aims for developer friendly ## Overview * Chainable API * Relations * Callbacks (before/after create/save/update/delete) * Soft Delete * Auto Migration * Every feature comes with tests * Convention Over Configuration * Developer Friendly ## Conventions ```go type User struct { // TableName: `users`, gorm will pluralize struct's name as table name Id int64 // Id: Database Primary key Birthday time.Time Age int64 Name string CreatedAt time.Time // Time of record is created, will be insert automatically UpdatedAt time.Time // Time of record is updated, will be updated automatically DeletedAt time.Time // Time of record is deleted, refer `Soft Delete` for more Email []Email // Embedded structs BillingAddress Address // Embedded struct BillingAddressId int64 // Embedded struct BillingAddress's foreign key ShippingAddress Address // Embedded struct ShippingAddressId int64 // Embedded struct ShippingAddress's foreign key } type Email struct { // TableName: `emails` Id int64 UserId int64 // Foreign key for above embedded structs Email string Subscribed bool } type Address struct { // TableName: `addresses` Id int64 Address1 string Address2 string Post string } ``` ## Opening a Database ```go import "github.com/jinzhu/gorm" import _ "github.com/lib/pq" // import _ "github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql" // import _ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3" db, err := Open("postgres", "user=gorm dbname=gorm sslmode=disable") // db, err = Open("mysql", "gorm:gorm@/gorm?charset=utf8&parseTime=True") // db, err = Open("sqlite3", "/tmp/gorm.db") // Set the maximum idle database connections db.SetPool(100) // By default, table name is plural of struct type, if you like singular table name db.SingularTable(true) // Gorm is goroutines friendly, so you can create a global variable to keep the connection and use it everywhere like this var DB gorm.DB func init() { DB, err = gorm.Open("postgres", "user=gorm dbname=gorm sslmode=disable") if err != nil { panic(fmt.Sprintf("Got error when connect database, the error is '%v'", err)) } } ``` ## Struct & Database Mapping ```go // Create table from struct db.CreateTable(User{}) // Drop table db.DropTable(User{}) ``` ### Automating Migrations Feel Free to update your struct, AutoMigrate will keep your database update to date. FYI, AutoMigrate will only add new columns, won't change column's type or delete unused columns, to make sure gorm won't harm your data. If table doesn't exist when AutoMigrate, it will run create table automatically. (only postgres and mysql supported) ```go db.AutoMigrate(User{}) ``` ## Create ```go user := User{Name: "jinzhu", Age: 18, Birthday: time.Now()} db.Save(&user) ``` ### Create With SubStruct Refer [Query With Related](#query-with-related) to find how to find associations ```go user := User{ Name: "jinzhu", BillingAddress: Address{Address1: "Billing Address - Address 1"}, ShippingAddress: Address{Address1: "Shipping Address - Address 1"}, Email: []Email{{Email: "jinzhu@example.com"}, {Email: "jinzhu-2@example@example.com"}}, } db.Save(&user) //// INSERT INTO "addresses" (address1) VALUES ("Billing Address - Address 1"); //// INSERT INTO "addresses" (address1) VALUES ("Shipping Address - Address 1"); //// INSERT INTO "users" (name,billing_address_id,shipping_address_id) VALUES ("jinzhu", 1, 2); //// INSERT INTO "emails" (user_id,email) VALUES (111, "jinzhu@example.com"); //// INSERT INTO "emails" (user_id,email) VALUES (111, "jinzhu-2@example.com"); ``` ## Query ```go // Get the first record db.First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY id LIMIT 1; // Search table `users` are guessed from the out struct type. // You are possible to specify the table name with Model() if no out struct for some methods like Pluck() // Or set table name with Table(), if so, it will ignore the out struct even have it. more details following. // Get the last record db.Last(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1; // Get a record without order by primary key db.Find(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 1; // Get first record as map db.First(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 1; // Get All records db.Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users; // Using a Primary Key db.First(&user, 10) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 10; ``` ### Query With Where (SQL like condition) ```go // Get the first matched record db.Where("name = ?", "jinzhu").First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = 'jinzhu' limit 1; // Get all matched records db.Where("name = ?", "jinzhu").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = 'jinzhu'; db.Where("name <> ?", "jinzhu").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name <> 'jinzhu'; // IN db.Where("name in (?)", []string{"jinzhu", "jinzhu 2"}).Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name IN ('jinzhu', 'jinzhu 2'); // LIKE db.Where("name LIKE ?", "%jin%").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name LIKE "%jin%"; // Multiple Conditions db.Where("name = ? and age >= ?", "jinzhu", "22").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = 'jinzhu' AND age >= 22; ``` ### Query With Where (Struct & Map) ```go // Search with struct db.Where(&User{Name: "jinzhu", Age: 20}).First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = "jinzhu" AND age = 20 LIMIT 1; // Search with map db.Where(map[string]interface{}{"name": "jinzhu", "age": 20}).Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = "jinzhu" AND age = 20; // IN For Primary Key db.Where([]int64{20, 21, 22}).Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE id IN (20, 21, 22); ``` ### Query With Not ```go // Attribute Not Equal db.Not("name", "jinzhu").First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name <> "jinzhu" LIMIT 1; // Not In db.Not("name", []string{"jinzhu", "jinzhu 2"}).Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name NOT IN ("jinzhu", "jinzhu 2"); // Not In for Primary Key db.Not([]int64{1,2,3}).First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE id NOT IN (1,2,3); db.Not([]int64{}).First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users; // Normal SQL db.Not("name = ?", "jinzhu").First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE NOT(name = "jinzhu"); // Not With Struct db.Not(User{Name: "jinzhu"}).First(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name <> "jinzhu"; ``` ### Query With Inline Condition ```go // Find with primary key db.First(&user, 23) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 23 LIMIT 1; // Normal SQL db.Find(&user, "name = ?", "jinzhu") //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = "jinzhu"; // Multiple Conditions db.Find(&users, "name <> ? and age > ?", "jinzhu", 20) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name <> "jinzhu" AND age > 20; // Inline Search With Struct db.Find(&users, User{Age: 20}) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE age = 20; // Inline Search With Map db.Find(&users, map[string]interface{}{"age": 20}) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE age = 20; ``` ### Query With Or ```go db.Where("role = ?", "admin").Or("role = ?", "super_admin").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE role = 'admin' OR role = 'super_admin'; // Or With Struct db.Where("name = 'jinzhu'").Or(User{Name: "jinzhu 2"}).Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = 'jinzhu' OR name = 'jinzhu 2'; // Or With Map db.Where("name = 'jinzhu'").Or(map[string]interface{}{"name": "jinzhu 2"}).Find(&users) ``` ### Query With Related ```go // Find emails from user with guessed foreign key db.Model(&user).Related(&emails) //// SELECT * FROM emails WHERE user_id = 111; // Find address from user with specified foreign key 'BillingAddressId' db.Model(&user).Related(&address1, "BillingAddressId") //// SELECT * FROM addresses WHERE id = 123; // 123 is the value of user's BillingAddressId // Find user from email with guessed primary key value from emails db.Model(&email).Related(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 111; // 111 is the value of email's UserId ``` ### Query Chains Gorm has a chainable API, so you could query like this ```go db.Where("name <> ?","jinzhu").Where("age >= ? and role <> ?",20,"admin").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name <> 'jinzhu' AND age >= 20 AND role <> 'admin'; db.Where("role = ?", "admin").Or("role = ?", "super_admin").Not("name = ?", "jinzhu").Find(&users) ``` ## Update ### Update an existing struct ```go user.Name = "jinzhu 2" user.Age = 100 db.Save(&user) //// UPDATE users SET name='jinzhu 2', age=100 WHERE id=111; ``` ### Update one attribute with `Update` ```go // Update an existing struct's name if name is different db.Model(&user).Update("name", "hello") //// UPDATE users SET name='hello' WHERE id=111; // Find out a struct, and update it if name is different db.First(&user, 111).Update("name", "hello") //// SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 1; //// UPDATE users SET name='hello' WHERE id=111; // Specify table name with where search db.Table("users").Where(10).Update("name", "hello") //// UPDATE users SET name='hello' WHERE id = 10; ``` ### Update multiple attributes with `Updates` ```go // Update an existing record if have any changed values db.Model(&user).Updates(User{Name: "hello", Age: 18}) //// UPDATE users SET name='hello', age=18 WHERE id = 111; // Updates with Map db.Table("users").Where(10).Updates(map[string]interface{}{"name": "hello", "age": 18}) //// UPDATE users SET name='hello', age=18 WHERE id = 10; // Updates with Struct db.Model(User{}).Updates(User{Name: "hello", Age: 18}) //// UPDATE users SET name='hello', age=18; ``` ## Delete ### Delete an existing struct ```go db.Delete(&email) // DELETE from emails where id=10; ``` ### Batch Delete with search ```go db.Where("email LIKE ?", "%jinzhu%").Delete(Email{}) // DELETE from emails where email LIKE "%jinhu%"; ``` ### Soft Delete If a struct has DeletedAt field, it will get soft delete ability automatically! For those don't have the filed, will be deleted from database permanently ```go db.Delete(&user) //// UPDATE users SET deleted_at="2013-10-29 10:23" WHERE id = 111; // Batch delete when search db.Where("age = ?", 20).Delete(&User{}) //// UPDATE users SET deleted_at="2013-10-29 10:23" WHERE age = 20; // For structs have DeletedAt field, when do query, will ignore deleted records by default db.Where("age = 20").Find(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE age = 100 AND (deleted_at IS NULL AND deleted_at <= '0001-01-02'); // Find out all records including those deleted with Unscoped db.Unscoped().Where("age = 20").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE age = 20; // Permanently delete a record with Unscoped db.Unscoped().Delete(&order) // DELETE FROM orders WHERE id=10; ``` ## FirstOrInit Try to load the first record, if fails, initialize struct with search conditions. (only support map or struct conditions, SQL like conditions are not supported) ```go db.FirstOrInit(&user, User{Name: "non_existing"}) //// User{Name: "non_existing"} db.Where(User{Name: "Jinzhu"}).FirstOrInit(&user) //// User{Id: 111, Name: "Jinzhu", Age: 20} db.FirstOrInit(&user, map[string]interface{}{"name": "jinzhu"}) //// User{Id: 111, Name: "Jinzhu", Age: 20} ``` ### FirstOrInit With Attrs Attr's arguments would be used to initialize struct if no record found, but won't be used for search ```go db.Where(User{Name: "non_existing"}).Attrs(User{Age: 20}).FirstOrInit(&user) //// SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE name = 'non_existing'; //// User{Name: "non_existing", Age: 20} // Above code could be simplified if has only one attribute db.Where(User{Name: "noexisting_user"}).Attrs("age", 20).FirstOrInit(&user) // If a record found, Attrs would be just ignored db.Where(User{Name: "Jinzhu"}).Attrs(User{Age: 30}).FirstOrInit(&user) //// SELECT * FROM USERS WHERE name = jinzhu'; //// User{Id: 111, Name: "Jinzhu", Age: 20} ``` ### FirstOrInit With Assign Assign's arguments would be used to set the struct even a record found, but won't be used for search ```go db.Where(User{Name: "non_existing"}).Assign(User{Age: 20}).FirstOrInit(&user) //// User{Name: "non_existing", Age: 20} db.Where(User{Name: "Jinzhu"}).Assign(User{Age: 30}).FirstOrInit(&user) //// User{Id: 111, Name: "Jinzhu", Age: 30} ``` ## FirstOrCreate Try to load the first record, if fails, initialize struct with search conditions and save it ```go db.FirstOrCreate(&user, User{Name: "non_existing"}) //// User{Id: 112, Name: "non_existing"} db.Where(User{Name: "Jinzhu"}).FirstOrCreate(&user) //// User{Id: 111, Name: "Jinzhu"} db.FirstOrCreate(&user, map[string]interface{}{"name": "jinzhu", "age": 30}) //// user -> User{Id: 111, Name: "jinzhu", Age: 20} ``` ### FirstOrCreate With Attrs Attr's arguments would be used to initialize struct if no record found, but won't be used for search ```go db.Where(User{Name: "non_existing"}).Attrs(User{Age: 20}).FirstOrCreate(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = 'non_existing'; //// User{Id: 112, Name: "non_existing", Age: 20} db.Where(User{Name: "jinzhu"}).Attrs(User{Age: 30}).FirstOrCreate(&user) //// User{Id: 111, Name: "jinzhu", Age: 20} ``` ### FirstOrCreate With Assign Assign's arguments would be used to initialize the struct if not record found, If any record found, will assign those values to the record, and save it back to database. ```go db.Where(User{Name: "non_existing"}).Assign(User{Age: 20}).FirstOrCreate(&user) //// user -> User{Id: 112, Name: "non_existing", Age: 20} db.Where(User{Name: "jinzhu"}).Assign(User{Age: 30}).FirstOrCreate(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = 'jinzhu'; //// UPDATE users SET age=30 WHERE id = 111; //// User{Id: 111, Name: "jinzhu", Age: 30} ``` ## Select ```go db.Select("name, age").Find(&users) //// SELECT name, age FROM users; ``` ## Order ```go db.Order("age desc, name").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY age desc, name; db.Order("age desc").Order("name").Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY age desc, name; // ReOrder db.Order("age desc").Find(&users1).Order("age", true).Find(&users2) //// SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY age desc; (users1) //// SELECT * FROM users ORDER BY age; (users2) ``` ## Limit ```go db.Limit(3).Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 3; // Cleanup limit with -1 db.Limit(10).Find(&users1).Limit(-1).Find(&users2) //// SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 10; (users1) //// SELECT * FROM users; (users2) ``` ## Offset ```go db.Offset(3).Find(&users) //// SELECT * FROM users OFFSET 3; // Cleanup offset with -1 db.Offset(10).Find(&users1).Offset(-1).Find(&users2) //// SELECT * FROM users OFFSET 10; (users1) //// SELECT * FROM users; (users2) ``` ## Count ```go db.Where("name = ?", "jinzhu").Or("name = ?", "jinzhu 2").Find(&users).Count(&count) //// SELECT * from USERS WHERE name = 'jinzhu' OR name = 'jinzhu 2'; (users) //// SELECT count(*) FROM users WHERE name = 'jinzhu' OR name = 'jinzhu 2'; (count) // Set table name with Model db.Model(User{}).Where("name = ?", "jinzhu").Count(&count) //// SELECT count(*) FROM users WHERE name = 'jinzhu' OR name = 'jinzhu 2'; (count) // Set table name with Table db.Table("deleted_users").Count(&count) //// SELECT count(*) FROM deleted_users; ``` ## Pluck Get struct's attribute as map ```go var ages []int64 db.Find(&users).Pluck("age", &ages) // Set Table With Model var names []string db.Model(&User{}).Pluck("name", &names) //// SELECT name FROM users; // Set Table With Table db.Table("deleted_users").Pluck("name", &names) //// SELECT name FROM deleted_users; ``` ## Callbacks Callback is a function defined to a struct, the function would be run when reflect a struct to database. If the function return an error, will prevent following operations. (for example, stop inserting, updating) Those callbacks are defined now: `BeforeCreate`, `AfterCreate` `BeforeUpdate`, `AfterUpdate` `BeforeSave`, `AfterSave` `BeforeDelete`, `AfterDelete` ```go func (u *User) BeforeUpdate() (err error) { if u.readonly() { err = errors.New("Read Only User") } return } ``` ## Specify Table Name ```go // When Create Table from struct db.Table("deleted_users").CreateTable(&User{}) // When Pluck db.Table("users").Pluck("age", &ages) //// SELECT age FROM users; // When Query var deleted_users []User db.Table("deleted_users").Find(&deleted_users) //// SELECT * FROM deleted_users; // When Delete db.Table("deleted_users").Where("name = ?", "jinzhu").Delete() //// DELETE FROM deleted_users WHERE name = 'jinzhu'; ``` ### Specify Table Name for Struct You are possible to specify table name for a struct by defining method TableName ```go type Cart struct { } func (c Cart) TableName() string { return "shopping_cart" } func (u User) TableName() string { if u.Role == "admin" { return "admin_users" } else { return "users" } } ``` ## Run Raw SQl ```go db.Exec("drop table users;") ``` ## Error Handling ```go query := db.Where("name = ?", "jinzhu").First(&user) query := db.First(&user).Limit(10).Find(&users) //// query.Error keep the latest error happened //// query.Errors keep all errors happened //// If an error happened, gorm will stop do query, insert, update, delete // I often use below code to do error handling in real applicatoins err = db.Where("name = ?", "jinzhu").First(&user).Error ``` ## Advanced Usage With Query Chain Already excited about above usage? Let's see some magic! ```go db.First(&first_article).Count(&total_count).Limit(10).Find(&first_page_articles).Offset(10).Find(&second_page_articles) //// SELECT * FROM articles LIMIT 1; (first_article) //// SELECT count(*) FROM articles; (count) //// SELECT * FROM articles LIMIT 10; (first_page_articles) //// SELECT * FROM articles LIMIT 10 OFFSET 10; (second_page_articles) db.Where("created_at > ?", "2013-10-10").Find(&cancelled_orders, "state = ?", "cancelled").Find(&shipped_orders, "state = ?", "shipped") //// SELECT * FROM orders WHERE created_at > '2013/10/10' AND state = 'cancelled'; (cancelled_orders) //// SELECT * FROM orders WHERE created_at > '2013/10/10' AND state = 'shipped'; (shipped_orders) db.Where("product_name = ?", "fancy_product").Find(&orders).Find(&shopping_carts) //// SELECT * FROM orders WHERE product_name = 'fancy_product'; (orders) //// SELECT * FROM carts WHERE product_name = 'fancy_product'; (shopping_carts) // Do you noticed the table is different? db.Where("mail_type = ?", "TEXT").Find(&users1).Table("deleted_users").First(&user2) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE mail_type = 'TEXT'; (users1) //// SELECT * FROM deleted_users WHERE mail_type = 'TEXT'; (users2) db.Where("email = ?", "x@example.org").Attrs(User{FromIp: "111.111.111.111"}).FirstOrCreate(&user) //// SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = 'x@example.org'; //// INSERT INTO "users" (email,from_ip) VALUES ("x@example.org", "111.111.111.111") (if no record found) // Open your mind, add more cool examples ``` ## TODO * Index, Unique, Valiations * SQL Log * SQL Query with goroutines # Author **jinzhu** * * *