Rust Client for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise

[chwzr]

I am a bit confused about choosing the correct client library for a new Project.
I plan to use InfluxDB 3 Core locally (Docker) to develop a MVP, then migrate this to a AWS Managed InfluxDB 3 Core, and eventually when we need longer data retention to a AWS Managed InfluxDB 3 Enterprise.

As our Backend will be written in Rust, which client crate should I use to avoid rewriting the whole thing?

In this repo there is a influxdb3_client crate.
Is this published to crates.io ?
Should I use it? Or is this just an internal crate used by other language clients as a backend?

[philjb]

Hi @chwzr --

Here is our docs page about v3 client libraries. The ones features are maintained via the influx community primarily. There isn't a rust client on that docs page or in the community. You are welcome to use the in-tree rust client you identified in the influxdb core repo. We use that client internally for the cli tools and for integration testing.

You may create a new Client and use it.

https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/blob/37db7bfa24388a9165734f7b42d12ba0b501934b/influxdb3_client/src/lib.rs#L95C1-L97C84

If you see gaps in the client, please let us know. We want to enable everyone to access core and enterprise with tooling such as this.

[philjb]

@chwzr --

One of my teammates mentions a caveat or two (paraphrasing):

The API of influxdb3_client is not stable and some APIs take short cuts (e.g., returning Bytes instead of a structured type for what is returned for a given API request). Eventually, influxdb3_client will be the official Rust client offered by us, but it's not at the moment.

[chwzr]

Thanks for the quick feedback!
Will use the one in your core repo for now and see if that works out for us :)