caddymodule

hazedb as a Caddy module

This package wraps hazedb as a Caddy HTTP handler, so a single Caddy binary serves your site and an in-process SQL store — no separate database process, no network hop.

It exposes five endpoints. POST /query and POST /exec take a JSON body {"sql": "...", "args": [...]}; the GET routes take URL parameters.

GET /meta takes no parameters; it reports the table count, the store-wide total_rows / total_approx_bytes, and per table the row / column / index counts and an approximate in-RAM byte size — for dashboards and health checks. The byte sizes are deliberate estimates (sampled, biased slightly high), not exact accounting.

args is an optional positional list for ? placeholders. JSON → SQL value mapping: number → INT, bool → BOOL, null → NULL, string → STRING, except a string in canonical UUID form (8-4-4-4-12 hex) → UUID — so you can address and insert UUID columns from JSON.

Build a Caddy binary with the module

Uses xcaddy. Until the core hazedb version that ships db_registry.go + wire.go is tagged, build against the local checkout (the submodule's replace points at ../):

# from a checkout of this repo
xcaddy build \
    --with github.com/VeloxCoding/hazedb/caddymodule=./caddymodule \
    --with github.com/VeloxCoding/hazedb=.

After the core is published, the plain form works:

xcaddy build --with github.com/VeloxCoding/hazedb/caddymodule

Configure (Caddyfile)

:8080 {
    handle /db/* {
        hazedb {
            wal_level      1                        # 0 memory-only, 1 background fsync, 2 fsync-per-write
            wal_path       /var/lib/hazedb/wal      # directory for the WAL segments (required when wal_level > 0)
            wal_rotation   5s                       # how often the active segment is sealed (default 5s)
            sqlite_path    /var/lib/hazedb/hazedb.db # on-disk SQLite mirror (recovery source; requires wal_level > 0)
            init_sql       /etc/hazedb/schema.sql   # CREATE TABLE + seed, run once at startup
            registry_name  default                  # name the *DB is published under for the PHP extension
            max_body_bytes 4194304                  # POST body cap for /query and /exec (default 4 MiB)
        }
    }
}

All subdirectives are optional. With wal_level unset (or 0) the store is memory-only and wal_path is not needed. Tables are created at runtime: put your CREATE TABLE statements in the init_sql file, or POST them to /exec.

Schema / tables

hazedb creates tables at runtime, so the module opens with an empty schema. Define tables one of two ways:

• init_sql — a file of ;-separated statements run once at startup (typical: CREATE TABLE ... plus any seed rows). Don't put a ; inside a string literal in that file.
• POST /exec — send CREATE TABLE ... like any other write.

Sharing the instance with PHP

The module publishes its *DB in hazedb's process-wide registry under registry_name (default "default"). The FrankenPHP/PHP extension (addons/frankenphp-ext) looks up that same name, so PHP calls and HTTP calls hit one identical database — no second copy.

WAL + config reload caveat

With wal_path set, a Caddy graceful config reload runs the new handler's Provision (which opens the WAL file) before the old handler's Cleanup (which closes it) — briefly two writers on one file. Memory mode reloads cleanly. For durable deployments, prefer a full restart over a graceful reload when changing this handler.