rustybeds/claude.md

# CLAUDE.md — BEDS Rust Rewrite

This file provides guidance to Claude Code when working in this repository.

## What This Project Is

**BEDS (Back End Data System)** is a Rust rewrite of a proven PHP microservice backend framework (codenamed Namaste). The PHP version ran 952 days in production without error, handled 40,000+ transactions per second on a single node, and demonstrated ~200ms round-trip latency from Baja California to West Virginia for destructive CRUD operations fanning out into dozens of concurrent DB calls.

This is not a greenfield project. The architecture is proven. The Rust rewrite exists to:
1. Eliminate PHP memory leak workarounds (planned broker obsolescence via SIGCHLD)
2. Dramatically increase throughput (5-10x expected)
3. Enable single binary deployment with no runtime dependency
4. Protect IP through compilation
5. Add an AI-driven database object generation layer

## Core Architecture Principles

**Never violate these — they are the product:**

1. **AMQP-first** — all data access flows through RabbitMQ message brokers. No direct database connections from the application layer. Ever.
2. **Database agnostic** — the framework supports MySQL/MariaDB and MongoDB through a unified trait/factory pattern. No database-specific logic leaks into the broker or factory layers.
3. **DBA-owned schema** — developers never write queries. All data access goes through named database objects (views, stored procedures, functions). The application layer calls template names, not SQL.
4. **Template-driven CRUD** — each data domain is a Rust struct implementing the `NamasteCore` trait. Adding a domain means adding a struct. Nothing else changes.
5. **Single codebase, config-driven nodes** — all service nodes run the same binary. Node role (appServer, admin, segundo, tercero) is determined entirely by startup configuration.

## Project Structure

```
rustybeds/
├── src/
│   ├── config/
│   │   ├── mod.rs            # load() + load_from() — layered TOML config
│   │   └── structs.rs        # Typed config structs (serde Deserialize)
│   ├── amqp.rs               # RabbitMQ transport — validate(), future channel/queue ops
│   ├── mongo.rs              # MongoDB transport — validate_all(), future adapter ops
│   ├── lib.rs                # Public API surface for integration test harness
│   ├── logging.rs            # tracing + journald + console mirror init
│   └── main.rs               # ipl() sequence + main()
├── config/
│   ├── beds.toml             # Base config — checked in, no credentials
│   ├── env_dev.toml          # Dev overrides — gitignored
│   ├── env_qa.toml           # QA overrides — gitignored
│   └── env_prod.toml         # Prod overrides — gitignored
├── templates/
│   ├── example_rec.toml      # Canonical self-documenting REC template
│   └── mst_logger_rec.toml   # Logger collection template (msLogs)
├── tests/
│   ├── common/mod.rs         # Shared test helpers — load_test_config()
│   └── fixtures/
│       └── beds_test.toml    # Canonical test config fixture
├── Cargo.toml
└── CLAUDE.md
```

### Planned additions (not yet implemented)

```
src/
├── core/
│   ├── trait.rs              # NamasteCore trait definition
│   ├── factory.rs            # Template name → adapter dispatch
│   └── meta.rs               # Request metadata parsing
├── adapters/
│   ├── mysql.rs              # gacPDO equivalent
│   └── mongodb.rs            # gacMongoDB equivalent
└── brokers/
    ├── pool.rs               # Broker pool management
    └── broker.rs             # Individual broker task
```

## Key Rust Mappings from PHP

| PHP | Rust |
|-----|------|
| `gaaNamasteCore` abstract class | `NamasteCore` trait |
| `gacMongoDB`, `gacPDO` | Structs implementing `NamasteCore` |
| `gacFactory::grabWidget()` | Match/dispatch returning `Box<dyn NamasteCore>` |
| Broker process pool | `tokio::spawn` task pool |
| SIGCHLD/planned obsolescence | Eliminated — Tokio tasks don't leak |
| XML config layering | TOML with environment override file |
| `.class.inc` template files | Rust modules in `src/templates/` |
| `gasResourceManager` | Connection pool via `sqlx`/`deadpool` |

## NamasteCore Trait Interface

The core CRUD interface. Every database adapter and every template must implement this:

```rust
pub trait NamasteCore {
    async fn create_record(&self, payload: &Payload) -> Result<Response, BEDSError>;
    async fn fetch_records(&self, query: &Query) -> Result<Vec<Response>, BEDSError>;
    async fn update_record(&self, payload: &Payload) -> Result<Response, BEDSError>;
    async fn delete_record(&self, id: &str) -> Result<Response, BEDSError>;
}
```

## Dependencies (Cargo.toml)

```toml
[dependencies]
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
lapin = "2"              # AMQP/RabbitMQ
sqlx = { version = "0.7", features = ["mysql", "runtime-tokio-native-tls"] }
mongodb = "2"            # MongoDB async driver
serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1"
config = "0.14"          # TOML config management
thiserror = "1"
tracing = "0.1"
tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
tracing-journald = "0.3"
```

## Service Nodes

All nodes run the same binary. Startup config determines role:

| Node | Role | Brokers |
|------|------|---------|
| appServer | Main application | rBroker, wBroker, mBroker |
| admin | Administration | adminBrokerIn/Out, adminLogsBroker, adminSyslogBroker, adminGraphBroker |
| segundo | Warehouse/cool storage | whBroker, cBroker |
| tercero | User management | uBroker, sBroker |

## Scaling Model

- **Horizontal** — increase broker count in config when node has available resources
- **Vertical** — add nodes to broker pool when a node saturates
- **Hot-swap** — nodes can be replaced without touching application code; broker pool absorbs the change

## AI Admin Layer (Planned — Phase 2)

A DBA describes a data domain in natural language. The AI layer generates:
1. Database schema (table/collection definitions)
2. Views and stored procedures/functions
3. BEDS template struct implementing `NamasteCore`
4. API documentation (markdown)

This is the primary market differentiator. No competitor combines database-agnostic transport + AMQP broker layer + DBA-enforced schema gatekeeping + AI-driven object generation.

## Development Conventions

- All errors use `thiserror` — no `.unwrap()` in production paths
- All database operations are async — no blocking calls on the Tokio runtime
- Broker tasks are supervised — a failed task is logged and replaced, not silently dropped
- Config is loaded once at startup and passed as shared state — no runtime config reads
- One template per file in `src/templates/` — file name matches domain name

## Performance Baseline

The PHP implementation achieved:
- 40,000+ tp/s single node
- ~200ms round-trip Baja → West Virginia with dozens of concurrent DB fanout calls
- 952 days continuous production uptime

The Rust rewrite must meet or exceed these numbers. Run benchmarks before any architectural change that touches the broker pool or factory dispatch path.

## Prior Art

The PHP implementation lives in the `namaste` repository. Refer to it for:
- Domain template patterns (`classes/templates/*.class.inc`)
- Config structure (`config/namaste.xml`)
- Error catalog (`common/errorCatalog.php`)
- DB catalog (`common/dbCatalog.php`)
- Schema definitions (`schema/pdo/`)

Do not copy PHP code into this repository. Use it as architectural reference only.

## Author

gramps@llamachile.shop