docs: note about Geo and add container-like data types examples (#147)

README.md

@@ -398,11 +398,36 @@ See [examples](https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-rs/tree/main/examples).
     }
     ```
     </details>
-* `JSON` and `Geo` aren't supported for now.
+* `Geo` types are supported. `Point` behaves like a tuple `(f64, f64)`, and the rest of the types are just slices of points. 
+    <details>
+    <summary>Example</summary>
+
+    ```rust,ignore
+    type Point = (f64, f64);
+    type Ring = Vec<Point>;
+    type Polygon = Vec<Ring>;
+    type MultiPolygon = Vec<Polygon>;
+    type LineString = Vec<Point>;
+    type MultiLineString = Vec<LineString>;
+  
+    #[derive(Row, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+    struct MyRow {
+        point: Point,
+        ring: Ring,
+        polygon: Polygon,
+        multi_polygon: MultiPolygon,
+        line_string: LineString,
+        multi_line_string: MultiLineString,
+    }
+    ```
+    </details>
+
+* `JSON`, `Variant`, `Dynamic` types are not supported for now.
 
 See also the additional examples:
 
 * [Simpler ClickHouse data types](examples/data_types_derive_simple.rs)
+* [Container-like ClickHouse data types](examples/data_types_derive_containers.rs)
 
 ## Mocking
 The crate provides utils for mocking CH server and testing DDL, `SELECT`, `INSERT` and `WATCH` queries.

examples/README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ If something is missing, or you found a mistake in one of these examples, please
 ### Data types
 
 - [data_types_derive_simple.rs](data_types_derive_simple.rs) - deriving simpler ClickHouse data types in a struct. Required cargo features: `time`, `uuid`.
+- [data_types_derive_containers.rs](data_types_derive_containers.rs) - deriving container-like (Array, Tuple, Map, Nested, Geo) ClickHouse data types in a struct.
 
 ### Special cases
 

examples/data_types_derive_containers.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+use rand::distributions::Alphanumeric;
+use rand::Rng;
+
+use clickhouse::sql::Identifier;
+use clickhouse::{error::Result, Client};
+
+// This example covers derivation of container-like ClickHouse data types.
+// See also:
+// - https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/data-types
+// - data_types_derive_simple.rs
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    let table_name = "chrs_data_types_derive_containers";
+    let client = Client::default().with_url("http://localhost:8123");
+
+    client
+        .query(
+            "
+            CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE ?
+            (
+                arr               Array(String),
+                arr2              Array(Array(String)),
+                map               Map(String, UInt32),
+                tuple             Tuple(String, UInt32),
+                nested            Nested(name String, count UInt32),
+                point             Point,
+                ring              Ring,
+                polygon           Polygon,
+                multi_polygon     MultiPolygon,
+                line_string       LineString,
+                multi_line_string MultiLineString
+            ) ENGINE MergeTree ORDER BY ();
+            ",
+        )
+        .bind(Identifier(table_name))
+        .execute()
+        .await?;
+
+    let mut insert = client.insert(table_name)?;
+    insert.write(&Row::new()).await?;
+    insert.end().await?;
+
+    let rows = client
+        .query("SELECT ?fields FROM ?")
+        .bind(Identifier(table_name))
+        .fetch_all::<Row>()
+        .await?;
+
+    println!("{rows:#?}");
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+// See https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/data-types/geo
+type Point = (f64, f64);
+type Ring = Vec<Point>;
+type Polygon = Vec<Ring>;
+type MultiPolygon = Vec<Polygon>;
+type LineString = Vec<Point>;
+type MultiLineString = Vec<LineString>;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(clickhouse::Row, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
+pub struct Row {
+    arr: Vec<String>,
+    arr2: Vec<Vec<String>>,
+    map: Vec<(String, u32)>,
+    tuple: (String, u32),
+    // Nested columns are internally represented as arrays of the same length
+    // https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/sql-reference/data-types/nested-data-structures/nested
+    #[serde(rename = "nested.name")]
+    nested_name: Vec<String>,
+    #[serde(rename = "nested.count")]
+    nested_count: Vec<u32>,
+    // Geo types
+    point: Point,
+    ring: Ring,
+    polygon: Polygon,
+    multi_polygon: MultiPolygon,
+    line_string: LineString,
+    multi_line_string: MultiLineString,
+}
+
+impl Row {
+    pub fn new() -> Self {
+        let mut rng = rand::thread_rng();
+        Row {
+            arr: vec![random_str()],
+            arr2: vec![vec![random_str()]],
+            map: vec![(random_str(), 42)],
+            tuple: (random_str(), 144),
+            // Nested
+            // NB: the length of all vectors/slices representing Nested columns must be the same
+            nested_name: vec![random_str(), random_str()],
+            nested_count: vec![rng.gen(), rng.gen()],
+            // Geo
+            point: random_point(),
+            ring: random_ring(),
+            polygon: random_polygon(),
+            multi_polygon: vec![random_polygon()],
+            line_string: random_ring(), // on the type level, the same as the Ring
+            multi_line_string: random_polygon(), // on the type level, the same as the Polygon
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Default for Row {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self::new()
+    }
+}
+
+fn random_str() -> String {
+    rand::thread_rng()
+        .sample_iter(&Alphanumeric)
+        .take(3)
+        .map(char::from)
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn random_point() -> Point {
+    let mut rng = rand::thread_rng();
+    (rng.gen(), rng.gen())
+}
+
+fn random_ring() -> Ring {
+    vec![random_point(), random_point()]
+}
+
+fn random_polygon() -> Polygon {
+    vec![random_ring(), random_ring()]
+}