PostgreSQLClient for Godot Engine (GDscript)

Godot PostgreSQL Client is a GDscript script / class that allows you to connect to a Postgres backend and run SQL commands there. It is able to send data and receive it from the backend. Useful for managing player user data on a multiplayer game, by saving a large amount of data on a dedicated Postgres server from GDscript.

The class is written in pure GDScript which allows it not to depend on GDNative. This makes it ultra portable for many platforms. You can see a taste of using the Postgresql connector for Godot 3.0 in the "Helloworld.gd" file.

There are still some minor features to add but now the script is ready for production.

There is also a version for Godot 4 which fixes some nasty errors in postgreSQLClient. Next semester, I will no longer support Godot 3.x, instead I will support Godot 4 (alpha branch of the repository currently not finalized).

INSTALLATION PROCEDURE:

It is assumed that you have installed the latest version of PostgreSQL and that you have created a database. Access Godot's AssetLib catalog search for PostgreSQLClient. Include the PostgreSQLClient.gd file in your project (only this file is really needed).

OR

Download the file "PostgreSQLClient.gd" then include it in your Godot project folders ("res: //").

The PostgreSQLClient class should now be accessible from any GDscript script. Otherwise, set the script to "Auto load" in your project settings.

HOW TO USE?:

Find an example of minimalist use in the Helloworld.gd file. Other examples will be provided later.

You can also watch Mitch McCollum (finepointcgi) video tutorial here:

DONATION:

This project is maintained by an enthusiast who develops it in his spare time. If you feel like it, you can buy me a cup of coffee.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

I get the error "The connection attempt failed. The backend does not want to establish a secure SSL/TLS connection", what does this mean?

---> please visit this link to understand: #29

PostgreSQLClient DOCUMENTATION (NOT FINALIZED):

This documentation concerns the version of the module intended for Godot 3. If you work with Godot 4 Look in the alpha branch!

PROPERTIES:

Type	Properties	Default value
float	PROTOCOL_VERSION const	3.0
Dictionary	parameter_status reader alone	{}
Dictionary	error_object reader alone	{}

METHODS:

Type	Method
Error	connect_to_host(url: String, ssl: bool = false, connect_timeout: int = 30)
Status	get_status()
Array	execute(sql: String)
void	rollback(process_id: int, process_key: int)
void	close(clean_closure: bool = true)
void	poll()

SIGNALS:

Signal
connection_closed(was_clean_close: bool)
connection_error()
authentication_error(error_object: Dictionnary)
connection_established()

ENUMARATIONS:

enum Status

• STATUS_DISCONNECTED = 0 --- A status representing a PostgreSQLClient that is disconnected.
• STATUS_CONNECTING = 1 --- A status representing a PostgreSQLClient that is connecting to a host.
• STATUS_CONNECTED = 2 --- A status representing a PostgreSQLClient that is connected to a host.
• STATUS_ERROR = 3 --- A status representing a PostgreSQLClient in error state.

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enum DataTypePostgreSQL

• BOOLEAN = 16 --- Postgresql data type of type boolean.
• SMALLINT = 21 --- Postgresql data type of type smallint.
• INTEGER = 23 --- Postgresql data type of type integer.
• BIGINT = 20 --- Postgresql data type of type bigint.
• REAL = 700 --- Postgresql data type of type real.
• DOUBLE_PRECISION = 701 --- Postgresql data type of type double precision.
• TEXT = 25 --- Postgresql data type of type text.
• CHARACTER = 1042 --- Postgresql data type of type character alias char.
• CHARACTER_VARYING = 3802 --- Postgresql data type of type character varying alias varchar.
• JSON = 114 --- Postgresql data type of type json.
• JSONB = 3802 --- Postgresql data type of type jsonb.
• XML = 142 --- Postgresql data type of type xml.
• BITEA = 17 --- Postgresql data type of type bitea.
• CIDR = 650 --- Postgresql data type of type cidr.
• INET = 869 --- Postgresql data type of type inet.
• MACADDR = 829 --- Postgresql data type of type macaddr.
• MACADDR8 = 774 --- Postgresql data type of type macaddr8.
• BIT = 1560 --- Postgresql data type of type bit.
• BIT_VARYING = 1562 --- Postgresql data type of type bit varying.
• UUID = 2950 --- Postgresql data type of type uuid.
• POINT = 600 --- Postgresql data type of type point.
• BOX = 603 --- Postgresql data type of type box.
• LSEG = 601 --- Postgresql data type of type lseg.
• LINE = 628 --- Postgresql data type of type line.
• CIRCLE = 718 --- Postgresql data type of type circle.
• DATE = 1082 --- Postgresql data type of type date.
• TIME = 1266 --- Postgresql data type of type time.

NOTE: Not all PostgreSQL data types are supported by PostgreSQLClient, but will be in a future release.

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Property Descriptions

• float PROTOCOL_VERSION const

Default value: 3.0

Version number (minor.major) of the PostgreSQL protocol used when connecting to the backend

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• Dictionary parameter_status reader alone

Default value: {}

A dictionary that contains various information about the execution state of the server. For security reasons the dictionary is always empty if the frontend is disconnected from the backend and updates once the connection is established.

Noted that the server is free to return whatever value it wants. Always remember to check the presence of the key before accessing the associated value.

Example of a typical value that a backend might return. Values may differ depending on the backend:

{"DateStyle":"ISO, DMY", "IntervalStyle":"postgres", "TimeZone":"Europe/Paris", "application_name":"", "client_encoding":"UTF8", "integer_datetimes":"on", "is_superuser":"off", "server_encoding":"UTF8", "server_version":"12.7 (Ubuntu 12.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)", "session_authorization":"samuel", "standard_conforming_strings":"on"}

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• Dictionary error_object reader alone

Default value: {}

A dictionary which contains various information on the execution errors of the last requests made on the backend (usually after using the execute() method). If the dictionary is empty, it means that the backend did not detect any error in the query. Should be used ideally after each use of the execute() method. For security reasons, the dictionary is empty when the frontend is not connected to the backend.

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Method Descriptions

• Error connect_to_host(url: String, ssl: bool = true, connect_timeout: int = 30)

Allows you to connect to a Postgresql backend at the specified url.

The url parameter is a PostgreSQL URL ideally in the form "postgresql://user:password@host:port/databasename". All other PostgreSQL URL syntaxes specified in this page [https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING] are not yet fully supported.

Noted that the default port for PostgreSQL is 5432.

If ssl is true, the frontend will try to establish a secure SSL/TLS connection with the backend. If the server is unfavorable, the connection will fail. Most of the time, all PostgreSQL backends are good at making an SSL/TLS connection. Old servers can be an exception. Passing the parameter to true is advisable for production use.

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• Array execute(sql: String)

Allows to send an SQL string to the backend that should run. The sql parameter can contain one or more valid SQL statements. Returns an Array of PostgreSQLQueryResult. There are as many PostgreSQLQueryResult elements in the array as there are SQL statements in sql (except in exceptional cases).

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• Status get_status()

Returns the status of the connection (see the Status enumeration).

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• void rollback(process_id : int, process_key : int)

Do not use because it is too unstable, will be subject to modification in future versions.

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• void close(clean_closure: bool = true)

Allows you to close the connection with the backend. If clean_closure is true, the frontend will notify the backend that it requests to close the connection. If false, the frontend forcibly closes the connection without notifying the backend (not recommended except in exceptional cases).

Has no effect if the frontend is not already connected to the backend.

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• void poll()

Poll the connection to check for incoming messages. Ideally, it should be called before PostgreSQLClient.execute() for it to work properly and called frequently in a loop.

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Signal Descriptions

• connection_closed(was_clean_close: bool)

Fires when the connection to the backend closes. was_clean_close is true if the connection was closed correctly otherwise false.

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• connection_error()

Do not listen to this signal, does not work. will be subject to change see removed in future versions.

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authentication_error(error_object: Dictionnary)

Triggered when the authentication process failed during contact with the target backend. The error_object parameter is a dictionary that contains various information during the nature of the error.

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• connection_established()

Trigger when the connection between the frontend and the backend is established. This is usually a good time to start making requests to the backend with execute ().

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DOCUMENTATION PostgreSQLQueryResult:

Descriptions

The PostgreSQLQueryResult class is a subclass of PostgreSQLClient which is not intended to be created manually. It represents the result of an SQL query and provides an information and method report to use the result of the query. It is usually returned by the PostgreSQLClient.execute() method in an array of PostgreSQLQueryResult.

PROPERTIES:

Type	Properties	Default value
int	number_of_fields_in_a_row reader alone	0
Array	row_description reader alone	[]
Array	data_row reader alone	[]
String	command_tag reader alone	""
Dictionary	notice reader alone	{}

METHODS:

Type	Method
Array	get_field_values(field_name: String)
PostgreSQLClient.DataTypePostgreSQL	field_data_type(field_name: String)

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Property Descriptions

int number_of_fields_in_a_row const

Default value: 0

Specifies the number of fields in a row (can be zero).

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Array row_description const

Default value: []

An array that contains dictionaries. these dictionaries represent the description of the rows where the query was executed. The number of dictionary depends on the number of fields resulting from the result of the query which was executed.

Each dictionary is structured like this:

{
	"field_name": field_name,
	"table_object_id": table_object_id,
	"column_index": column_index,
	"type_object_id": type_object_id,
	"data_type_size": data_type_size,
	"type_modifier": type_modifier,
	"format_code": format_code
}

• Where the field_name value is a String that represents the name of the field.
• Where the value table object_id is an int which represents the identifier of the table object whether the field can be identified as a column from a specific table; otherwise 0.
• Where the column_index value is an int which represents the attribute number of the column if the field can be identified as a column from a specific table; otherwise zero.
• Where the type_object_id value is an PostgreSQLClient.DataTypePostgreSQL which represents the object ID of the data type of the field.
• Where the data_type_size value is an int which represents the size of the data type. Note: that negative values indicate variable width types.
• Where the type_modifier value is an int which represents the type modifier. Note: The meaning of the modifier is type specific.
• Where the format_code value is an int which represents the format code used for the field. Currently will be 0 (text) or 1 (binary). In a RowDescription returned by the instruction variant of Describe, the format code is not yet known and will always be zero. This value is low-level PostgreSQL protocol information that is not useful in most cases. You can ignore this value.

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Array data_row const

Default value: []

An Array that contains sub-arrays. these sub-arrays represent for most of the queries the rows of the table where the query was executed. The number of sub-tables depends on the query that has been made. These sub-arrays contain as many elements as number_of_fields_in_a_row. These elements are native GDscript types that represent the data resulting from the query.

Example return value:

[[1, "Hello my id is 1"], [2, "Hello my id is 2"], [3, "Hello my id is 3"]]

There are 3 rows. Each row contains the value of 2 fields: The row identifier and a character string.

Table of type PostgreSQL equivalent to Godot

Types postgres	Type Godot
null	null
smallint, integer, bigint	int
real, double precision	float
text, character alias char, character varying alias varchar, json, jsonb, xml, cidr, inet, macaddr, macaddr8, bit, bit varying, uuid, date, time	String
bitea	PoolByteArray
point	Vector2
box	Rect2
lseg	PoolVector2Array
line, circle	Vector3

Note:

• Not all PostgreSQL types are supported yet.

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String command_tag const

Default value: ""

This is usually a single word that identifies which SQL command was completed.

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Dictionary notice const

Default value: {}

Represents various information about the execution status of the query notified by the backend. Can be empty.

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Method Descriptions

Array get_field_values(field_name: String)

Returns all the values of a field. field_name is the name of the field on which we get the values. Can be empty if the field name is unknown. The field_name parameter is case sensitive.

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PostgreSQLClient.DataTypePostgreSQL field_data_type(field_name: String)

Returns the object ID of the data type of the field. field_name is the name of the field whose type we get. Can return -1 if the field name is unknown. The field_name parameter is case sensitive.

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