Apache OpenDAL™ OCaml Binding (WIP)

An OCaml binding for Apache OpenDAL — access S3, GCS, Azure Blob, local filesystem, and 50+ more storage services through one API, backed by the Rust core.

Experimental / Work in Progress. APIs may change without notice. Not published to opam. Build from source only.

Useful Links

User guide: https://opendal.apache.org/docs/bindings/ocaml
Services & configuration: https://opendal.apache.org/services
Source: bindings/ocaml/

Requirements

OCaml >= 4.10 and < 5.0 (OCaml 5 is not yet supported)
Rust stable toolchain (for the build.rs native compilation step)
dune >= 2.1

Build & Install

Install opam and create a 4.x switch:

# Install opam (if needed)
bash -c "sh <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam/master/shell/install.sh)"

# macOS
brew install opam

# Debian/Ubuntu
apt-get install opam

# Arch
pacman -S opam

Initialize opam and create a switch:

opam init --bare -a -y          # use --disable-sandboxing on WSL1
opam switch create opendal-ocaml4.14 ocaml-base-compiler.4.14.0
eval $(opam env)

Install optional dev tools (recommended for IDE support):

opam install -y utop odoc ounit2 ocaml-lsp-server ocamlformat ocamlformat-rpc

Build and test:

cd bindings/ocaml
dune build
dune test

Quickstart

open Opendal

(* Create an operator for the local filesystem *)
let () =
  match Operator.new_operator "fs" [ ("root", "/tmp") ] with
  | Error err -> Printf.eprintf "Error: %s\n" err
  | Ok op ->

  (* Write a file *)
  ignore (Operator.write op "hello.txt" (Bytes.of_string "Hello, World!"));

  (* Read it back *)
  (match Operator.read op "hello.txt" with
  | Ok content ->
      let text = content |> Array.to_seq |> Bytes.of_seq |> Bytes.to_string in
      print_endline text    (* Hello, World! *)
  | Error err -> Printf.eprintf "Error: %s\n" err)

Every fallible function returns ('a, string) result. For S3 or other backends, change the scheme and pass the appropriate config keys:

match Operator.new_operator "s3"
  [ ("bucket", "my-bucket"); ("region", "us-east-1")
  ; ("access_key_id", "..."); ("secret_access_key", "...") ]
with
| Error err -> Printf.eprintf "Error: %s\n" err
| Ok _op -> ()   (* use _op here *)

See the user guide for examples covering streaming reads/writes, directory listing, and capability checks.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Standard OCaml style; format with ocamlformat before submitting. See the repository CONTRIBUTING.md for the general process.

License and Trademarks

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Apache OpenDAL, OpenDAL, and Apache are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation.