Support Postgres network types (inet)

[001wwang]

Motivation

I would like to use Postgres network types (i.e. inet) in my Model definitions. I understand there may be workarounds, so this is not urgent but would be a quality-of-life improvement.

Proposed Solutions

I believe this is nearly/already supported in sea-query: SeaQL/sea-query#187. From my understanding, supporting this in sea-orm requires updating the logic that converts a query result into an instance of a Model: perhaps here.

Additional Information

Currently, attempts to use inet will result in a runtime error.

[billy1624]

Hey @001wwang, sorry for the delay. Network types are supported on SeaQuery, however, it's only supported by PostgreSQL but not by MySQL and SQLite.

So, the questions was do we want to bring the network types support to SeaORM for PostgreSQL only? Or, support it for MySQL and SQLite as well. We can simply serialize network types as string for MySQL and SQLite.

Thoughts?

CC @tyt2y3

[001wwang]

No worries at all, this is not a blocker for us. We only use PostgreSQL so I'll hold off on any judgement for MySQL and SQLite. Thanks for the context.

[ikrivosheev]

@billy1624 I think support network types only for PostgreSQL (for example SqlAlchemy, python ORM, support it only for PostgreSQL).

[ikrivosheev]

@tyt2y3 @billy1624 if it's, I can prepare PR)

[tyt2y3]

Let me think about it

[billy1624]

Any updates? @tyt2y3

[hut8]

I would like this feature! Question about implementation: to what Rust type would inet map? std::net::IpAddr seems like a logical choice, but Postgres's inet type also can contain the subnet. So I guess we would have to just discard that, right? Is there a better type?

[Razican]

One option would be ipnetwork, which is already supported by SQLx (and diesel), but it's not stable, and SQLx itself is not able keep the version up to date: launchbadge/sqlx#2148

Another option is ipnet, which has a stable API, many downloads and updates, and it's supported by diesel too, for example.

[holmofy]

What is the current progress on this issue? I found that sqlx already provides inet type support for postgresql ：https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/blob/main/sqlx-postgres/src/types/ipnetwork.rs

[tyt2y3]

The issue is still outstanding. No concrete plan for it yet.