multitenancy

gorm-multitenancy

There are three common approaches to multitenancy in a database:

• Shared database, shared schema
• Shared database, separate schemas
• Separate databases

This package implements the shared database, separate schemas approach. It uses the gorm ORM to manage the database and provides custom drivers to support multitenancy. It also provides HTTP middleware to retrieve the tenant from the request and set the tenant in context.

Database compatibility

Current supported databases are listed below. Pull requests for other drivers are welcome.

• PostgreSQL

Router compatibility

Current supported routers are listed below. Pull requests for other routers are welcome.

• echo
• net/http

Installation

go get -u github.com/bartventer/gorm-multitenancy

Usage

PostgreSQL driver

For a complete example, refer to the examples section.

import (
    "gorm.io/gorm"
    "github.com/bartventer/gorm-multitenancy/drivers/postgres"
)

// For models that are tenant specific, ensure that TenantTabler is implemented
// This classifies the model as a tenant specific model when performing subsequent migrations

// Tenant is a public model
type Tenant struct {
    gorm.Model // Embed the gorm.Model
    postgres.TenantModel // Embed the TenantModel
}

// Implement the gorm.Tabler interface
func (t *Tenant) TableName() string {return "tenants"}

// Book is a tenant specific model
type Book struct {
    gorm.Model // Embed the gorm.Model
    Title string
}

// Implement the gorm.Tabler interface
func (b *Book) TableName() string {return "books"}

// Implement the TenantTabler interface
func (b *Book) IsTenantTable() bool {return true}

func main(){
    // Create the database connection
    db, err := gorm.Open(postgres.New(postgres.Config{
        DSN:                  "host=localhost user=postgres password=postgres dbname=postgres port=5432 sslmode=disable",
    }), &gorm.Config{})
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Register the models
    // Models are categorized as either public or tenant specific, which allow for simpler migrations
    postgres.RegisterModels(
        db,        // Database connection
        // Public models (does not implement TenantTabler or implements TenantTabler with IsTenantTable() returning false)
        &Tenant{},  
        // Tenant specific model (implements TenantTabler)
        &Book{},
        )

    // Migrate the database
    // Calling AutoMigrate won't work, you must either call MigratePublicSchema or CreateSchemaForTenant
    // MigratePublicSchema will create the public schema and migrate all public models
    // CreateSchemaForTenant will create the schema for the tenant and migrate all tenant specific models

    // Migrate the public schema (migrates all public models)
    if err := postgres.MigratePublicSchema(db); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Create a tenant
    tenant := &Tenant{
        TenantModel: postgres.TenantModel{
            DomainURL: "tenant1.example.com",
            SchemaName: "tenant1",
        },
    }
    if err := db.Create(tenant).Error; err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Migrate the tenant schema
    // This will create the schema and migrate all tenant specific models
    if err := postgres.CreateSchemaForTenant(db, tenant); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // Operations on tenant specific schemas (e.g. CRUD operations on books)
    // Refer to Examples section for more details on how to use the middleware

    // Drop the tenant schema
    // This will drop the schema and all tables in the schema
    if err := postgres.DropSchemaForTenant(db, tenant); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // ... other operations
}

Examples

• PostgreSQL with echo
• PostgreSQL with net/http

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome! Open a pull request to request a feature or submit a bug report.