Litestar Data Services

Litestar Data Services

Use this skill for repositories, service layers, CRUD boundaries, filters, and pagination.

Code Style Rules

• Match the existing persistence stack before choosing patterns.
• Keep handlers out of query construction and transaction management.
• Use filter dependency objects rather than ad hoc query params.
• Return typed pagination envelopes for collection endpoints.

Quick Reference

• Service patterns: services.md
• Pagination and filters: pagination.md
• Advanced Alchemy details: advanced-alchemy
• sqlspec details: sqlspec

Workflow

1. Identify the project's data stack.
2. Put persistence operations behind a service boundary.
3. Add filters and pagination through the stack's native pattern.
4. Return DTO-ready data to Controllers.

Guardrails

• Do not mix repository stacks in one feature.
• Do not place SQL or ORM session handling in route handlers.
• Do not hand-roll pagination query params.
• Do not return persistence internals when DTOs are required.

Validation Checkpoint

• Service methods own data access.
• Filters and pagination match the selected stack.
• Controller code stays thin.
• DTO conversion is explicit or handled by the service stack.

Example

class UserService(SQLAlchemyAsyncRepositoryService[User]):
    repository_type = UserRepository

References Index

• services.md
• pagination.md

Official References

• https://docs.litestar.dev/ - Litestar documentation
• https://docs.litestar.dev/latest/reference/ - Litestar API reference

Shared Styleguide Baseline

• General
• Python
• Litestar