teridex 0.5.0

A terminal-native database IDE. Keyboard-first, async, pluggable.

Teridex 📟

A terminal-native database IDE. Keyboard-first, async, pluggable.

Teridex is a TUI database client built on a clean async core and a plugin-first architecture. It combines a rich query editor, lazy schema browser, virtualized result tables, and a fuzzy command palette — all inside your terminal.

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✨ Key Features

• ⚡ Asynchronous Execution: Multi-threaded, fully cancellable database queries. Long-running queries won't block the TUI layout or cursor.
• ⌨️ Keyboard-First Design: Optimized for hands-on-keyboard speed. Support for both standard and Vim-style keybindings (press ? in the TUI to toggle the active keybindings list).
• 🔌 Pluggable Architecture: Easily write plugins to add custom panels, new commands to the palette, or listen to event hooks.
• 🗃️ Built-in Database Drivers: First-class support for DuckDB, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
• 📝 Rich Workspace Layout:
  • Live Schema Tree: Real-time introspection of schemas, tables, columns, indexes, and foreign keys (with full index and foreign key support implemented for DuckDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite).
  • Multi-Tab SQL Editor: Edit multiple queries side-by-side with SQL syntax highlighting.
  • Interactive Results Table: Search, filter, and scroll through large result sets cleanly using pagination/batch loading. Features a dynamic row display limit configuration dialog (set row limit on the fly via the command palette).
  • Command Palette: Quick actions, screen switching, and plugin commands.
• ⚙️ Configuration Layer: Customize the look and feel (including Monokai and Nord themes) and define saved connections.

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📐 Package Architecture & Layering

Teridex follows a clean, layered architecture with strict dependency boundaries:

graph TD
    core["teridex_core (Pure Domain)"]
    adapters["teridex_adapters (DB Drivers)"]
    plugins["teridex_plugins (Plugin API)"]
    engine["teridex_engine (Orchestration)"]
    tui["teridex_tui (Textual TUI)"]
    cli["teridex_cli (Typer CLI)"]

    adapters --> core
    plugins --> core
    engine --> adapters
    engine --> plugins
    tui --> engine
    cli --> engine

[!IMPORTANT] Dependency Isolation: Inner packages must never depend on outer packages. Specifically, teridex_core has no dependencies on any other internal package. These boundaries are strictly verified via mypy --strict.

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python >= 3.13
• The uv package manager (recommended) or standard pip.

Installation

Install Teridex using uv or standard Python package managers:

# Install core package
pip install teridex

# Install with support for all database drivers (Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB)
pip install "teridex[all]"

# Install with specific drivers
pip install "teridex[postgres]"
pip install "teridex[duckdb]"

Alternatively, clone the repository for local development:

git clone https://github.com/salvatorecorvaglia/teridex.git
cd teridex
./scripts/dev.sh

Running the TUI

Start the workspace by pointing it to a database DSN (Data Source Name):

# Open with a temporary in-memory DuckDB
teridex tui --dsn duckdb:///:memory:

# Connect to a local SQLite database file
teridex tui --dsn sqlite:///path/to/database.db

# Connect to a PostgreSQL instance
teridex tui --dsn postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/mydatabase

One-Shot CLI Execution

Run query statements directly from the command line and view results rendered as a styled table:

teridex run --dsn duckdb:///:memory: "SELECT 'Hello, Teridex!' AS message"

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⚙️ Configuration

Configure Teridex via the config file located at ~/.config/teridex/config.toml.

Refer to the config.example.toml file for available options:

[ui]
theme = "monokai"       # "monokai" (warm) or "nord" (cool)
keymap = "default"      # "default" or "vim"
show_status_bar = true
row_batch_size = 1000   # Rows per batch to fetch from adapters
max_display_rows = 10000 # Max rows held in results grid (0 for unlimited)

[engine]
default_timeout_seconds = 60.0
max_history_entries = 1000
pool_size = 5

[logging]
level = "INFO"

[plugins]
enabled = []            # Specify IDs of plugins to load (empty loader registers all)
disabled = []           # Specify IDs of plugins to exclude

[connections]
# Save connection profiles to reference by name
# local-duckdb = "duckdb:///:memory:"
# local-pg     = "postgres://user:pass@localhost:5432/dbname"

Environment Overrides

You can override configuration keys using environment variables using the structure: TERIDEX_<SECTION>__<FIELD>. For example:

TERIDEX_UI__THEME=nord teridex tui

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🔌 Extensibility: Writing Plugins

Plugins are discovered using Python entry points registered under the teridex.plugins group in your package's metadata.

A plugin needs to implement the Plugin protocol.

1. Define the Manifest and Hooks

Create a class with a manifest property, on_load, and on_unload methods:

from teridex_plugins import PluginContext, Command, hook
from teridex_core.protocols.plugin import PluginManifest

class MyPlugin:
    manifest = PluginManifest(
        id="custom-notifier",
        name="Custom Notifier",
        version="0.1.0",
        description="Warns users when executing risky SQL queries.",
        requires_teridex=">=0.1.0"
    )

    def on_load(self, ctx: PluginContext) -> None:
        # Register command palette action
        ctx.register_command(
            Command(
                id="notify-hello",
                title="Hello Notifier",
                handler=self.hello_handler,
                default_binding="ctrl+h"
            )
        )
        ctx.logger.info("Custom Notifier plugin successfully loaded!")

    def on_unload(self, ctx: PluginContext) -> None:
        ctx.logger.info("Custom Notifier plugin unloaded.")

    async def hello_handler(self, ctx: PluginContext) -> None:
        ctx.publish(SomeNotificationEvent("Hello from plugin!"))

    @hook("query.before_execute")
    async def warn_on_drop(self, ctx: PluginContext, sql: str) -> None:
        if "drop table" in sql.lower():
            ctx.logger.warning("Risky query detected!", sql=sql)

Refer to api.py and context.py for the complete plugin-facing API surface.

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🛠️ Extensibility: Custom Database Adapters

Add adapters by subclassing AbstractAdapter:

1. Subclass AbstractAdapter and set the driver names and URL schemas.
2. Implement _do_connect, _do_close, ping, execute, stream, begin, and introspect.
3. Register your driver class in registry.py.

[!TIP] All database adapters automatically support asynchronous context manager usage (async with adapter: ...) via AbstractAdapter to guarantee clean connection teardown.

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🛠️ Local Development & Testing

We provide helper scripts inside the scripts/ directory to run checks, tests, and formatting easily:

• Run All Quality Gates: ./scripts/check.sh (Runs linting, typing, formatting, and unit tests).
• Format Code: ./scripts/fmt.sh (Using Ruff).
• Lint & Type Checking: ./scripts/lint.sh (Ruff and Mypy strict).
• Unit Tests: ./scripts/test.sh (Pytest).
• Integration Tests: TERIDEX_TEST_MARKERS=integration ./scripts/test.sh (using testcontainers if Docker is running).

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

🔐 Security

If you discover a security vulnerability, please see our Security Policy.

📝 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

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Author: Salvatore Corvaglia