This guide shows you how to stand up a sample Hello World application, built with Rocket, that connects to EventStoreDB.
The sample exposes a simple HTTP endpoint http://localhost:8080/hello-world?visitor={visitor}
that shows how to append to and read from a stream in EventStoreDB.
When a visitor says hello via hello-world?visitor={visitor}
, an event is appended to a stream to record the fact they have been greeted.
The stream is then read from beginning to end to return the full log of visitors on each call to /hello-world?visitor={visitor}
.
You can see how this is done in the source code here.
Before running the application, make sure you have the following installed on your system:
- Docker: Get Docker
- Docker Compose: Install Docker Compose
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/EventStore/samples.git cd samples/Quickstart/Rust/esdb-sample-rust
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Run the application and database using Docker Compose:
docker compose up -d
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Verify the containers are up and running:
docker compose ps
Output:
NAME IMAGE ... STATUS PORTS esdb-sample-rust-esdb-local-1 eventstore/eventstore:latest ... Up 7 seconds (healthy) 1112-1113/tcp, 0.0.0.0:2113->2113/tcp esdb-sample-rust-esdb-sample-rust-1 esdb-sample-rust ... Up 7 seconds 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp
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Test the application:
Say hello as
Ouro
:curl localhost:8080/hello-world?visitor=Ouro
Say hello as
YourName
:curl localhost:8080/hello-world?visitor=YourName
Output:
1 visitors have been greeted, they are: [Ouro]
2 visitors have been greeted, they are: [Ouro, YourName]
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To stop and remove the containers, use:
docker compose down
For more in-depth and detailed examples of using EventStoreDB and the Rust Client, refer to:
- EventStoreDB: Getting Started With EventStoreDB
- Rust Client: Rust Client Samples