Production-ready Rust implementation with 100% feature parity with Python, Go, Node.js, and TypeScript reference APIs.
Purpose: Demonstrates production-quality Rust patterns with Actix-web framework, comprehensive infrastructure integration, type safety, async/await, zero-cost abstractions, and world-class error handling following Rust best practices.
Core Infrastructure (100%):
- ✅ Actix-web server with full routing and middleware
- ✅ CORS middleware properly configured
- ✅ Async/await patterns with Tokio runtime
- ✅ Type-safe structs with Serde serialization/deserialization
- ✅ Environment configuration for flexible deployment
- ✅ Structured logging with env_logger
- ✅ CI/CD integration (cargo fmt, cargo clippy, comprehensive tests)
Health Checks (100%):
- ✅ Simple health check (
/health/) - ✅ Vault health check with connectivity verification
- ✅ PostgreSQL health with version detection
- ✅ MySQL health with version detection
- ✅ MongoDB health with ping verification
- ✅ Redis health with PING command
- ✅ RabbitMQ health with connection test
- ✅ Aggregate health check (
/health/all) for all services
Vault Integration (100%):
- ✅ Secret retrieval by service (
/examples/vault/secret/{service}) - ✅ Secret key extraction (
/examples/vault/secret/{service}/{key}) - ✅ Credential management for all database/cache/messaging services
- ✅ Proper error handling for Vault unavailability
Database Integration (100%):
- ✅ PostgreSQL - Full integration with credential fetching, queries, connection management
- ✅ MySQL - Complete async driver integration with mysql_async
- ✅ MongoDB - Document operations with mongodb driver
- ✅ All databases use Vault-managed credentials
Cache Integration (100%):
- ✅ Redis - Full CRUD operations (GET, SET, DELETE)
- ✅ TTL support with SETEX command
- ✅ Vault-managed Redis credentials
- ✅ Proper connection pooling with multiplexed async connections
Messaging Integration (100%):
- ✅ RabbitMQ - Message publishing with queue declaration
- ✅ Queue info endpoint
- ✅ Vault-managed RabbitMQ credentials
- ✅ Proper connection lifecycle management
Redis Cluster Support (100%):
- ✅ Cluster nodes listing (
/redis/cluster/nodes) - ✅ Cluster slots information (
/redis/cluster/slots) - ✅ Cluster health/info (
/redis/cluster/info) - ✅ Per-node information (
/redis/nodes/{node_name}/info)
Metrics & Observability (100%):
- ✅ Prometheus metrics with real instrumentation
- ✅ HTTP request counter (by method, endpoint, status)
- ✅ HTTP request duration histogram (by method, endpoint)
- ✅ Prometheus text format export (
/metrics)
Testing (100%):
- ✅ 44 comprehensive unit tests in
src/tests.rs - ✅ Positive test cases for all endpoints
- ✅ Negative test cases (404, 400, 503 scenarios)
- ✅ Edge cases (empty values, special characters, long inputs)
- ✅ All tests follow Rust best practices
- ✅ No unwrap() calls in production code (100% compliance with PR #28)
Error Handling (100%):
- ✅ Zero
unwrap()calls in production code - ✅ Proper use of
Result<T, E>throughout - ✅ Graceful error responses with appropriate HTTP status codes
- ✅ Error context preservation with descriptive messages
- ✅ Safe fallbacks with
unwrap_or_else(),unwrap_or(),expect()(initialization only)
- 1,667 lines of production-ready Rust code in
src/main.rs - 647 lines of comprehensive tests in
src/tests.rs - Zero unsafe code - 100% safe Rust
- Zero unwrap() calls in production paths (per CLAUDE.md guidelines)
- Type-safe - Compile-time guarantees prevent entire classes of bugs
- High performance - Zero-cost abstractions with async I/O
- Memory safe - No null pointer dereferences, no buffer overflows
- Concurrent - Safe multi-threading with Rust's ownership system
- Actix-web: High-performance async web framework with full middleware support
- Complete Infrastructure Integration: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ
- Health Monitoring: Comprehensive health checks for all services
- Vault Integration: Credential management with HashiCorp Vault
- Type Safety: Rust's compile-time guarantees eliminating runtime errors
- Redis Cluster: Full support for Redis cluster operations
- Prometheus Metrics: Real instrumentation for observability
- Performance: Zero-cost abstractions with async I/O for maximum efficiency
- Testing: 44 comprehensive tests covering positive, negative, and edge cases
- Error Handling: Zero unwrap() calls, production-grade error patterns
- Memory Safety: Guaranteed by Rust's ownership system
- CORS: Properly configured cross-origin resource sharing
# Start the Rust reference API
docker compose up -d rust-api
# Test root endpoint
curl http://localhost:8004/
# Health checks
curl http://localhost:8004/health/
curl http://localhost:8004/health/all
curl http://localhost:8004/health/vault
curl http://localhost:8004/health/postgres
curl http://localhost:8004/health/mysql
curl http://localhost:8004/health/mongodb
curl http://localhost:8004/health/redis
curl http://localhost:8004/health/rabbitmq
# Vault examples
curl http://localhost:8004/examples/vault/secret/postgres
curl http://localhost:8004/examples/vault/secret/postgres/user
# Database examples
curl http://localhost:8004/examples/database/postgres/query
curl http://localhost:8004/examples/database/mysql/query
curl http://localhost:8004/examples/database/mongodb/query
# Cache examples
curl http://localhost:8004/examples/cache/mykey
curl -X POST http://localhost:8004/examples/cache/mykey \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"value": "myvalue", "ttl": 60}'
curl -X DELETE http://localhost:8004/examples/cache/mykey
# Messaging examples
curl -X POST http://localhost:8004/examples/messaging/publish/myqueue \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"message": "Hello from Rust!"}'
curl http://localhost:8004/examples/messaging/queue/myqueue/info
# Redis cluster
curl http://localhost:8004/redis/cluster/nodes
curl http://localhost:8004/redis/cluster/slots
curl http://localhost:8004/redis/cluster/info
curl http://localhost:8004/redis/nodes/redis-1/info
# Metrics
curl http://localhost:8004/metricsGET /- API information and endpoint directoryGET /metrics- Prometheus metrics (text format)
GET /health/- Simple health checkGET /health/all- Aggregate health status for all servicesGET /health/vault- Vault connectivity and healthGET /health/postgres- PostgreSQL connection and versionGET /health/mysql- MySQL connection and versionGET /health/mongodb- MongoDB connection and pingGET /health/redis- Redis connection and PINGGET /health/rabbitmq- RabbitMQ connection test
GET /examples/vault/secret/{service}- Retrieve all secrets for a serviceGET /examples/vault/secret/{service}/{key}- Retrieve specific secret key
GET /examples/database/postgres/query- Execute PostgreSQL test queryGET /examples/database/mysql/query- Execute MySQL test queryGET /examples/database/mongodb/query- Execute MongoDB test operation
GET /examples/cache/{key}- Get cached valuePOST /examples/cache/{key}- Set cached value (with optional TTL)- Body:
{"value": "string", "ttl": 60}(ttl is optional)
- Body:
DELETE /examples/cache/{key}- Delete cached value
POST /examples/messaging/publish/{queue}- Publish message to queue- Body:
{"message": "string"}
- Body:
GET /examples/messaging/queue/{queue_name}/info- Get queue information
GET /redis/cluster/nodes- List all cluster nodesGET /redis/cluster/slots- Show cluster slot distributionGET /redis/cluster/info- Cluster information and healthGET /redis/nodes/{node_name}/info- Information for specific node
- HTTP: 8004
- HTTPS: 8447 (when TLS enabled)
cd reference-apps/rust
cargo build
./target/debug/devstack-core-rust-apicd reference-apps/rust
cargo build --release
./target/release/devstack-core-rust-api# Build image
docker compose build rust-api
# Run container
docker compose up -d rust-api
# View logs
docker compose logs -f rust-apicd reference-apps/rust
cargo testcargo test -- --nocapturecargo test -- --test-threads=1cargo test test_health_simple_returns_200- 44 unit tests covering all endpoints
- Positive tests - Happy path validation
- Negative tests - Error handling (404, 400, 503)
- Edge cases - Empty values, special characters, long inputs
- 100% unwrap() elimination - Production-safe error handling
This implementation demonstrates production-quality Rust/Actix-web patterns with comprehensive infrastructure integration matching the feature set of the Python, Go, Node.js, and TypeScript reference APIs. It showcases:
- Type Safety: Compile-time guarantees preventing null pointers, race conditions, and memory safety issues
- Performance: Zero-cost abstractions with async I/O for high throughput
- Reliability: No unwrap() calls in production code, proper error handling throughout
- Testability: Comprehensive test coverage with positive, negative, and edge case validation
- Production Readiness: Real Prometheus metrics, structured logging, complete infrastructure integration
The Rust implementation serves as both a reference for building production Rust APIs and a demonstration of how Rust's unique features (ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, zero-cost abstractions) enable building high-performance, memory-safe services.