NAME

BerkeleyDB::Manager - General purpose BerkeleyDB wrapper

SYNOPSIS

        use BerkeleyDB::Manager;

        my $m = BerkeleyDB::Manager->new(
                home => Path::Class::Dir->new( ... ), # if you want to use rel paths
                db_class => "BerkeleyDB::Hash", # the default class for new DBs
        );

        my $db = $m->open_db( file => "foo" ); # defaults

        $m->txn_do(sub {
                $db->db_put("foo", "bar");
                die "error!"; # rolls back
        });

DESCRIPTION

This object provides a convenience wrapper for BerkeleyDB

ATTRIBUTES

home

The path to pass as -Home to BerkeleyDB::Env->new.

If provided the file arguments to open_db should be relative paths.

If not provided, BerkeleyDB will use the current working directory for transaction journals, etc.

create

Whether DB_CREATE is passed to Env or instantiate_db by default. Defaults to true.

transactions

Whether or not to enable transactions.

Defaults to true.

autocommit

Whether or not a top level transaction is automatically created by BerkeleyDB. Defaults to true.

If you turn this off note that all database handles must be opened inside a transaction, unless transactions are disabled.

recover

If true (the default) DB_REGISTER and DB_RECOVER are enabled in the flags to the env.

This will enable automatic recovery in case of a crash.

dup

Enables DB_DUP in -Properties by default, allowing duplicate keys in the db.

dupsort

Enables DB_DUPSORT in -Properties by default.

db_class

The default class to use when instantiating new DB objects. Defaults to BerkeleyDB::Btree.

env_flags

Flags to pass to the env. Overrides transactions, create and recover.

db_flags

Flags to pass to instantiate_db. Overrides create and autocommit.

db_properties

Properties to pass to instantiate_db. Overrides dup and dupsort.

open_dbs

The hash of currently open dbs.

METHODS

open_db %args

Fetch a database handle, opening it as necessary.

If name is provided, it is used as the key in open_dbs. Otherwise file is taken from %args.

Calls instantiate_db

close_db $name

Close the DB with the key $name

get_db $name

Fetch the db specified by $name if it is already open.

register_db $name, $handle

Registers the DB as open.

instantiate_db %args

Instantiates a new database handle.

file is a required argument.

If class is not provided, the "db_class" will be used in place.

If txn is not provided and the env has transactions enabled, the current transaction if any is used. See txn_do

flags and properties can be overridden manually. If they are not provided build_db_flags and build_db_properties will be used.

instantiate_hash

instantiate_btree

Convenience wrappers for instantiate_db that set class.

build_db_properties %args

Merges argument options into a flag integer.

Default arguments are taken from the dup and dupsort attrs.

build_db_flags %args

Merges argument options into a flag integer.

Default arguments are taken from the autocommit and create attrs.

txn_do sub { }

Executes the subroutine in an eval block. Calls txn_commit if the transaction was successful, or txn_rollback if it wasn't.

Transactions are kept on a stack internally.

txn_begin $parent_txn

Begin a new transaction.

If $parent_txn is provided the new transaction will be a child transaction.

The new transaction is set as the active transaction for all registered database handles.

txn_commit $txn

Commit a transaction.

Will die on error.

txn_rollback $txn

Rollback a transaction.

associate %args

Associate secondary with primary, using callback to extract keys.

callback is invoked with the primary DB key and the value on every update to primary, and is expected to return a key (or with recent BerkeleyDB also an array reference of keys) with which to create indexed entries.

Fetching on secondary with a secondary key returns the value from primary.

Fetching with pb_get will also return the primary key.

See the BDB documentation for more details.

all_open_dbs

Returns a list of all the registered databases.

VERSION CONTROL

This module is maintained using Darcs. You can get the latest version from http://nothingmuch.woobling.org/code, and use darcs send to commit changes.

AUTHOR

Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

COPYRIGHT

        Copyright (c) 2008 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved
        This program is free software; you can redistribute
        it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.