db

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Index

• type Database
• type Iterator
• type Transaction

Types

type Database

type Database interface {
	// View provides a Transaction that can be used to read from the database
	View(func(Transaction) error) error
	// Update provides a Transaction tht can be used to read from or write to the database
	Update(func(Transaction) error) error
	Close()
}

Database allows the persistence and retrieval of key / value data.

type Iterator

type Iterator interface {
	// Next advances the iterator to the next key / value pair, returning True
	// upon successful advancement, False if no key / value pairs remain. Next()
	// should be called before accessing the first pair.
	Next() bool
	// Key returns the key associated with the current Key / Value pair
	Key() []byte
	// Value returns the value associated with the current Key / Value pair. Note
	// that depending on the database implementation, accessing values may be
	// considerably more expensive than just accessing keys.
	Value() []byte
	Error() error
	Close() error
}

Iterator iterates over key / value pairs beginning with the specified prefix. Depending on the underlying database engine, the Iterator may or may not be ordered.

type Transaction

type Transaction interface {
	// Get returns the value stored for a given key. Note that modifying the
	// value returned here is unsafe, and transactions may return an error if
	// this value is modified.
	Get([]byte) ([]byte, error)
	// ZeroCopyGet invokes a closure, providing the value stored at the specified
	// key. This value must only be accessed within the closure, and the slice
	// may be modified after the closure finishes executing. The data must be
	// parsed and / or copied within the closure.
	ZeroCopyGet([]byte, func([]byte) error) error
	// Put sets a value at a specified key
	Put([]byte, []byte) error
	// PutReserve returns a byte slice of the specified size that can be updated
	// to modify the specified key. For example, if you had a hexidecimal value
	// and needed to store the decoded value, you could use PutReserve to get a
	// byte slice and decode the hex into that byte slice, rather than decoding
	// the hex into a new byte slice then calling Put(); this may be more
	// efficient for some database implementations.
	PutReserve([]byte, int) ([]byte, error)
	// Delete removes a key from the database
	Delete([]byte) error
	// Iterator returns an iterator object that returns key / value pairs
	// beginning with the specified prefix. Depending on the underlying database
	// engine, the Iterator may or may not be ordered.
	Iterator([]byte) Iterator
}

Transaction allows for atomic interaction with the database. It can be used to retrieve data or update the database, and a transaction should provide a consistent view (changes made to the database by other transactions will not effect the results returned by a transaction that was alread open)