@httpx/dsn-parser

DSN & JDBC string parser with query params support in a light (~750B) and modern package.

Install

1$ npm install @httpx/dsn-parser
2$ yarn add @httpx/dsn-parser
3$ pnpm add @httpx/dsn-parser

Features

• 👉  Parse individual fields (ie: driver, user, password, host...)
• 🖖  Handle query string parameters and converts to boolean and numeric values.
• 🦄  Handle special characters like /, :... in the password (some libs won't).
• 🚀  Error with indicative message / reasons (discriminated union or throwable).
• 🛡️  Don't leak passwords in the error message.
• 🙏  Assertion and typeguard helpers
• 🤗  Ecosystem friendly (ie: zod integration).

Documentation

👉 Official website or Github Readme

Usage

parseDsnOrThrow

Usage with exceptions

1import { parseDsnOrThrow } from "@httpx/dsn-parser";
2
3const dsn = "redis://user:p@/ssword@localhost:6379/0?ssl=true";
4
5try {
6  const parsedDsn = parseDsnOrThrow(dsn);
7  assert.deepEqual(parsedDsn, {
8    driver: "redis",
9    pass: "p@/ssword",
10    host: "localhost",
11    user: "user",
12    port: 6379,
13    db: "0",
14    params: {
15      ssl: true,
16    },
17  });
18} catch (e) {
19  // example:
20  // e -> Error("Can't parse dsn: Invalid port: 12345678 (INVALID_PORT)")
21}

parseDsn

Usage with discriminated union.

1import { parseDsn } from "@httpx/dsn-parser";
2
3const dsn = "redis://user:p@/ssword@localhost:6379/0?ssl=true";
4
5const parsed = parseDsn(dsn);
6
7if (parsed.success) {
8  assert.deepEqual(parsed.value, {
9    driver: "redis",
10    pass: "p@/ssword",
11    host: "localhost",
12    user: "user",
13    port: 6379,
14    db: "0",
15    params: {
16      ssl: true,
17    },
18  });
19} else {
20  assert.deepEqual(parsed, {
21    success: false,
22    // Reasons might vary
23    reason: "INVALID_PORT",
24    message: "Invalid http port: 12345678",
25  });
26}

Options

1import { parseDsn, type ParseDsnOptions } from "@httpx/dsn-parser";
2
3const dsn = "mySql://localhost:6379/db";
4const parsed = parseDsn(dsn, {
5  lowercaseDriver: true,
6  // Overrides, allows to force some values (ParseDsnOptions)
7  overrides: {
8    db: "db3",
9    port: undefined,
10  },
11});
12
13assert.deepEqual(parsed.value, {
14  driver: "mysql",
15  host: "localhost",
16  db: "db3",
17});

Params	Type	Description
lowercaseDriver	boolean	Driver name in lowercase, default false
overrides	ParseDsnOptions	Overrides allows to force specific values

Utilities

Typeguard

1import { isParsableDsn, type ParsableDsn } from "@httpx/dsn-parser";
2
3const dsn = "postgresql://localhost:6379/db";
4
5if (isParsableDsn(dsn)) {
6  // known to be ParsableDsn
7}

Assertion

1import { assertParsableDsn, ParsableDsn } from "@httpx/dsn-parser";
2
3try {
4  assertParsableDsn("redis:/");
5  // Type is narrowed to string (ParsableDsn) if it
6  // didn't throw.
7} catch (e) {
8  assert.equal(e.message, "Cannot parse DSN (PARSE_ERROR)");
9}

ParsableDsn

ParsableDsn is a weak opaque type.

1declare const tag: unique symbol;
2export type WeakOpaqueContainer<Token> = {
3  readonly [tag]: Token;
4};
5export type ParsableDsn = string & WeakOpaqueContainer<'ParsableDsn'>;

It can be used to enforce that the isParsableDsn or assertParsableDsn have been used before usage.

1import type { ParsableDsn } from "./dsn-parser.type";
2import { assertParsableDsn } from "./assert-parsable-dsn";
3
4// to opt-in, just change the dsn param type to `ParsableDsn` instead of `string` 
5const fnWithWeakOpaqueType = (dsn: ParsableDsn) => {
6    // by explictly requiring a ParsableDsn, we can rely on typescript
7    // to be sure that a validation has occured before (isParsableDsn or assertParsableDsn)  
8}
9
10fnWithWeakOpaqueType('redis://localhost');  // ❌ typescript will complain
11
12const dsn = 'redis://localhost';
13assertParsableDsn(dsn);
14fnWithWeakOpaqueType(dsn);  // ✅ working cause it was checked before
15

PS: WeakOpaque usage is totally optional, a nice to have if applicable

convertJdbcToDsn

Utility to convert jdbc dsn. Useful for prisma using sqlserver.

1import { convertJdbcToDsn } from "@httpx/dsn-parser";
2
3const jdbcDsn =
4  "sqlserver://localhost:1433;database=my-db;authentication=default;user=sa;password=pass03$;encrypt=true;trustServerCertificate=true";
5
6const dsn = convertJdbcToDsn(jdbc);
7
8// -> 'sqlserver://localhost:1433?database=my-db&authentication=default&user=sa&password=pass03$&encrypt=true&trustServerCertificate=true'

DSN parsing

Requirements

The minimum requirement for dsn parsing is to have a host and a driver (/[a-z0-9]+/i) defined. All other options are optional.

1export type ParsedDsn = {
2  driver: string;
3  host: string;
4  user?: string;
5  pass?: string;
6  port?: number;
7  db?: string;
8  /** Query params */
9  params?: Record<string, number | string | boolean>;
10};

DSN support

Things like:

1const validExamples = [
2  "postgresql://postgres:@localhost:5432/prisma-db",
3  "redis://us_er-name:P@ass-_:?/ssw/rd@www.example.com:6379/0?cache=true",
4  //...
5];

should work.

Query parameters

Simple query parameters are supported (no arrays, no nested). For convenience it will cast 'true' and 'false' to booleans, parse numeric string to numbers if possible. When a query parameter does not contain a value, it will be returned as true.

1const dsn = "redis://host?index=1&compress=false&ssl";
2const parsed = parseDsn(dsn);
3assert.deepEqual(parsed.value.params, {
4  index: 1,
5  compress: false,
6  ssl: true,
7});

Portability

parseDsn won't make any assumptions on default values (i.e: default port for mysql...).

Validation

parseDsn wraps its result in a discriminated union to allow the retrieval of validation errors. No try... catchneeded and full typescript support.

Reason codes are guaranteed in semantic versions and messages does not leak credentials

1const parsed = parseDsn("redis://localhost:65636");
2assert.deepEqual(parsed, {
3  success: false,
4  reason: "INVALID_PORT",
5  message: "Invalid port: 65636",
6});
7if (!parsed.success) {
8  // `success: false` narrows the type to
9  // {
10  //   reason: 'PARSE_ERROR'|'INVALID_ARGUMENT'|...
11  //   message: string
12  // }
13  log(parsed.reason);
14}

Reason	Message	Comment
'PARSE_ERROR'	Cannot parse DSN	Regexp failed
'INVALID_ARGUMENT'	DSN must be a string
'EMPTY_DSN'	DSN cannot be empty
'INVALID_PORT'	Invalid port: ${port}	[1-65535]

Ecosystem

Zod integration example

The isParsableDsn can be easily plugged into zod custom validation. Example:

1import { z } from "zod";
2import { isParsableDsn, type ParsableDsn } from "@httpx/dsn-parser";
3
4export const serverEnvSchema = z.object({
5  PRISMA_DATABASE_URL: z.custom<ParsableDsn>(
6    (dsn) => isParsableDsn(dsn),
7    "Invalid DSN format."
8  ),
9});
10
11serverEnvSchema.parse(process.env);

Faq

Why '/' in password matters

Some libs (ioredis...) still might fail parsing a password containing '/', unfortunately they're pretty convenient, i.e:

1openssl rand 60 | openssl base64 -A
2
3# YFUXIG9INIK7dFyE9aXtxLmjmnYL0zv6YluBJJbC6alKIBema/MwEGy3VUpx0oLAvWHUFGFMagAdLxrB

Bundle size

Bundle size is tracked by a size-limit configuration

Scenario (esm)	Size (compressed)
import { parseDsn } from '@httpx/dsn-parser	~ 750B

Compatibility

Level	CI	Description
Node	✅	CI for 20.x, 22.x & 24.x.
Browser	✅	Tested with latest chrome (vitest/playwright)
Browserslist	✅	> 95% on 01/2025. defaults, chrome >= 96, firefox >= 105, edge >= 113, safari >= 15, ios >= 15, opera >= 103, not dead
Edge	✅	Ensured on CI with @vercel/edge-runtime.
Cloudflare	✅	Ensured with @cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers (see wrangler.toml
Typescript	✅	TS 5.0 + / are-the-type-wrong checks on CI.
ES2022	✅	Dist files checked with es-check

For older browsers: most frontend frameworks can transpile the library (ie: nextjs...)

Contributors

Contributions are warmly appreciated. Have a look to the CONTRIBUTING document.

Sponsors

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Special thanks to

JetBrains	Embie.be

License

MIT © belgattitude and contributors.