pimbrouwers/Donald

Donald is a .NET library that provides a functional, type-safe API for ADO.NET database interactions. It simplifies data access by offering dedicated methods for commands, parameters, and execution, while replacing generic error handling with structured exceptions for better debugging. The library supports synchronous and asynchronous workflows across various ADO.NET providers and targets .NET 6, 7, and 8.

The repository now includes the initial release of Donald, a .NET library designed to provide a cleaner, type-safe API for ADO.NET. The release includes a build script (Build.ps1) and deployment automation (Deploy.ps1) for packaging and pushing NuGet packages. The library exposes functional-style methods like Db.newCommand, Db.setParams, Db.query, and Db.exec to simplify data access, supporting both synchronous and asynchronous workflows across various ADO.NET providers.

(repo-wide) · high confidence

The library now defines specific exception types—DbConnectionException, DbExecutionException, DbTransactionException, and DbReaderException—each carrying contextual details like connection strings, SQL statements, or field names to aid debugging. These replace generic or monadic error handling with CLR exceptions that wrap underlying ADO.NET errors, providing clearer error messages and better resource management during database operations.

src/Donald · high confidence

Added new tests in the \test/Donald.Tests\ directory that verify the library's ability to handle all supported SQL types, including strings, booleans, numeric types, and dates, using both the typed \setParams\ and raw \setParamsRaw\ APIs.

test · high confidence

The Donald library now targets .NET 6, 7, and 8, allowing the package to be used in modern .NET applications. The project file has been updated to include these target frameworks and references FSharp.Core version 6.0.0. The test project has also been updated to target .NET 6.0 and includes updated test dependencies such as FsUnit.xUnit 4.0.4, xUnit 2.4.1, and related test SDKs.

(dependencies) · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

• CAI 62 → 61 (-0.7)
• Rubric changed (rubric-2026.08.19 → rubric-2026.09.15) — scores are not directly comparable.

• Code Health 95 → 95 (+0.0)
• Architecture 100 → 89 (-10.8)
• Maturity 50 → 50 (+0.0)
• Readiness 54 → 55 (+1.1)
• Security 85 → 83 (-2.0)

• Dependency hygiene not measured — no supported dependency manifest was read
• High: security finding (details withheld)
• High: security finding (details withheld)
• Low coverage: Core.fs (Core.fs)
• Low coverage: IDbConnection.fs (IDbConnection.fs)
• Low coverage: IDbTransaction.fs (IDbTransaction.fs)
• No exposed public API
• Test reliability not included
• The quick start example uses IDbConnection but does not show how to pass a strongly-typed query result back into the type signature. (README.md)
• dormant codebase — no living knowledge left to concentrate

• Documentation: no installation or build instructions (README.md)
• Documentation: no licence statement (README.md)
• Documentation: no usage examples (README.md)
• End-of-life runtime: .NET net6.0
• High: security finding (details withheld)
• High: security finding (details withheld)
• Medium: security finding (details withheld)
• Medium: security finding (details withheld)
• No dependency advisory monitoring
• Scattered collaborators
• Workflow token permissions not restricted

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

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