# Behavior traces — SeaQL/sea-orm

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# Behavior traces — SeaQL/sea-orm

Scanned commit db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245 (2026-09-27). Generated by codevetter codevetter 1.15.0 on 2026-10-02.

Source inspection; upstream code and tests were not executed.

The inspected traces follow application startup, database writes and reads, CLI generation, migrations, authorization, and file-backed conversion. Each sequence identifies its relevant functions and branches. These are source-derived execution paths, not observed runtime traces.
- Actix startup proceeds from the binary main to actix_example_api::main, start, environment loading, Database::connect, Migrator::up, Tera loading, AppState creation, route registration, listener adoption or bind, and server.run. — [examples/actix_example/src/main.rs#L1-L3](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/examples/actix_example/src/main.rs#L1-L3) [examples/actix_example/api/src/lib.rs#L167-L227](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/examples/actix_example/api/src/lib.rs#L167-L227)
- POST / calls create, extracts post::Model, and invokes Mutation::create_post; the service sets title/text and calls save, which takes the missing-primary-key insert branch, runs before_save, executes insertion with model retrieval, runs after_save, and returns an HTTP redirect. — [examples/actix_example/api/src/lib.rs#L74-L89](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/examples/actix_example/api/src/lib.rs#L74-L89) [examples/actix_example/api/src/service/mutation.rs#L7-L18](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/examples/actix_example/api/src/service/mutation.rs#L7-L18) [src/entity/active_model.rs#L225-L235](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/src/entity/active_model.rs#L225-L235) [src/entity/active_model.rs#L375-L403](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/src/entity/active_model.rs#L375-L403)
- GET / calls list, defaults page to 1 and page size to 5, then find_posts_in_page builds an ID-ordered paginator, counts pages, and fetches page-1; fetch_page applies LIMIT/OFFSET, queries and decodes rows, and the handler renders index.html.tera. — [examples/actix_example/api/src/lib.rs#L37-L61](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/examples/actix_example/api/src/lib.rs#L37-L61) [examples/actix_example/api/src/service/query.rs#L12-L24](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/examples/actix_example/api/src/service/query.rs#L12-L24) [src/executor/paginator.rs#L53-L99](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/src/executor/paginator.rs#L53-L99)
- Entity generation runs binary main → CLI main/Cli::parse → run_generate_command → backend sqlx_connect/SchemaDiscovery → EntityTransformer::transform → EntityWriter::generate → file writes → rustfmt; preservation fallback can make the final command return an error after writing output. — [sea-orm-cli/src/bin/main.rs#L17-L19](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-cli/src/bin/main.rs#L17-L19) [sea-orm-cli/src/cli.rs#L423-L456](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-cli/src/cli.rs#L423-L456) [sea-orm-cli/src/commands/generate.rs#L299-L325](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-cli/src/commands/generate.rs#L299-L325) [sea-orm-cli/src/commands/generate.rs#L369-L436](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-cli/src/commands/generate.rs#L369-L436)
- sea migrate up launches cargo run against the migration manifest; the template calls run_cli, which constructs the connection and dispatches up. MigratorTrait::up creates SchemaManager, exec_up installs tracking and selects pending migrations, and exec_up_with runs each migration and records its version, optionally within a transaction. — [sea-orm-cli/src/commands/migrate.rs#L30-L74](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-cli/src/commands/migrate.rs#L30-L74) [sea-orm-migration/src/cli.rs#L15-L51](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-migration/src/cli.rs#L15-L51) [sea-orm-migration/src/migrator.rs#L234-L282](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-migration/src/migrator.rs#L234-L282) [sea-orm-migration/src/migrator/exec.rs#L259-L282](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-migration/src/migrator/exec.rs#L259-L282)
- Nested ActiveModelEx::save calls generated action(Save), begins a transaction, performs prerequisite relation actions, persists the parent when changed or genuinely new, performs subsequent relation actions, and commits; unchanged existing parents skip the scalar write. — [sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_model_ex.rs#L713-L719](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_model_ex.rs#L713-L719) [sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_model_ex.rs#L744-L793](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-macros/src/derives/active_model_ex.rs#L744-L793)
- RBAC use proceeds through load_rbac → load_rbac_from → RbacEngine::load_from → replace, then restricted_for(user); structured execution calls user_can_run and audits every request, while raw SQL calls return RbacError without forwarding. — [src/database/db_connection.rs#L619-L648](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/src/database/db_connection.rs#L619-L648) [src/database/restricted_connection.rs#L54-L90](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/src/database/restricted_connection.rs#L54-L90) [src/database/restricted_connection.rs#L526-L557](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/src/database/restricted_connection.rs#L526-L557)
- The synchronous Parquet example converts generated ActiveModels with to_arrow, writes ArrowWriter output, reads Parquet RecordBatches, restores models with from_arrow, compares rows, recreates a SQLite target, applies the entity schema, and executes insert_many. — [sea-orm-sync/examples/parquet_example/src/main.rs#L59-L101](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-sync/examples/parquet_example/src/main.rs#L59-L101) [sea-orm-sync/examples/parquet_example/src/main.rs#L104-L121](https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/blob/db40a19a7bde7be8e1c4b346b1b70d72e87f0245/sea-orm-sync/examples/parquet_example/src/main.rs#L104-L121)

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