Jacquard#

A suite of Rust crates for the AT Protocol. Docs

Goals and Features#

Validated, spec-compliant, easy to work with, and performant baseline types
Batteries-included, but easily replaceable batteries.
- Easy to extend with custom lexicons using code generation or handwritten api types
- Straightforward OAuth
- stateless options (or options where you handle the state) for rolling your own
- all the building blocks of the convenient abstractions are available
lexicon Value type for working with unknown atproto data (dag-cbor or json)
order of magnitude less boilerplate than some existing crates
use as much or as little from the crates as you need

Example#

Dead simple API client. Logs in with OAuth and prints the latest 5 posts from your timeline.

// Note: this requires the `loopback` feature enabled (it is currently by default)
use clap::Parser;
use jacquard::CowStr;
use jacquard::api::app_bsky::feed::get_timeline::GetTimeline;
use jacquard::client::{Agent, FileAuthStore};
use jacquard::oauth::client::OAuthClient;
use jacquard::oauth::loopback::LoopbackConfig;
use jacquard::types::xrpc::XrpcClient;
use miette::IntoDiagnostic;

#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
#[command(author, version, about = "Jacquard - OAuth (DPoP) loopback demo")]
struct Args {
    /// Handle (e.g., alice.bsky.social), DID, or PDS URL
    input: CowStr<'static>,

    /// Path to auth store file (will be created if missing)
    #[arg(long, default_value = "/tmp/jacquard-oauth-session.json")]
    store: String,
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> miette::Result<()> {
    let args = Args::parse();

    // Build an OAuth client with file-backed auth store and default localhost config
    let oauth = OAuthClient::with_default_config(FileAuthStore::new(&args.store));
    // Authenticate with a PDS, using a loopback server to handle the callback flow
    let session = oauth
        .login_with_local_server(
            args.input.clone(),
            Default::default(),
            LoopbackConfig::default(),
        )
        .await?;
    // Wrap in Agent and fetch the timeline
    let agent: Agent<_> = Agent::from(session);
    let timeline = agent
        .send(&GetTimeline::new().limit(5).build())
        .await?
        .into_output()?;
    for (i, post) in timeline.feed.iter().enumerate() {
        println!("\n{}. by {}", i + 1, post.post.author.handle);
        println!(
            "   {}",
            serde_json::to_string_pretty(&post.post.record).into_diagnostic()?
        );
    }

    Ok(())
}

Component crates#

Jacquard is broken up into several crates for modularity. The correct one to use is generally jacquard itself, as it re-exports the others.

jacquard: Main crate
jacquard-common: Foundation crate
jacquard-api: Autogenerated API bindings
jacquard-axum: Axum extractor and other helpers
jacquard-oauth: atproto OAuth implementation
jacquard-identity: Identity resolution
jacquard-lexicon: Lexicon parsing and code generation
jacquard-derive: Macros for lexicon types

Changelog#

CHANGELOG.md

Highlights:

A ton of new lexicons included in jacquard-api
jacquard-axum Axum extractor and a number of improvements to lifetimes and (de)serialization required to make that work (thanks @thoth.ptnote.dev for helping provide feedback and sample code to test against)
from_data, from_raw_data, to_data, and to_raw_data to serialize to and deserialize from the loosely typed value data formats (think serde_json::from_value and company). Particularly useful for second-stage deserialization of type "unknown" fields in lexicons, such as PostView.record.
better API code generation

Development#

This repo uses Flakes from the get-go.

# Dev shell
nix develop

# or run via cargo
nix develop -c cargo run

# build
nix build

There's also a justfile for Makefile-esque commands to be run inside of the devShell, and you can generally cargo ... or just ... whatever just fine if you don't want to use Nix and have the prerequisites installed.

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