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.TH ATTRDB 2
.SH NAME
attrdb \- database of attribute-value pairs
.SH SYNOPSIS
.EX
include "bufio.m";
include "attrdb.m";
attrdb := load Attrdb Attrdb->PATH;
Attr: adt {
attr: string;
val: string;
tag: int; # application-defined data, initially 0
};
Tuples: adt {
n: int;
pairs: list of ref Attr;
hasattr: fn(t: self ref Tuples, attr: string): int;
haspair: fn(t: self ref Tuples,
attr: string, value: string): int;
find: fn(t: self ref Tuples, attr: string): list of ref Attr;
findbyattr: fn(t: self ref Tuples,
attr: string, value: string, rattr: string):
list of ref Attr;
};
Dbentry: adt {
n: int;
lines: list of ref Tuples;
find: fn(e: self ref Dbentry, attr: string):
list of (ref Tuples, list of ref Attr);
findfirst: fn(e: self ref Dbentry, attr: string): string;
findpair: fn(e: self ref Dbentry,
attr: string, value: string):
list of ref Tuples;
findbyattr: fn(e: self ref Dbentry,
attr: string, value: string, rattr: string):
list of (ref Tuples, list of ref Attr);
};
Db: adt {
open: fn(path: string): ref Db;
sopen: fn(data: string): ref Db;
changed: fn(db: self ref Db): int;
reopen: fn(db: self ref Db): int;
append: fn(db1: self ref Db, db2: ref Db): ref Db;
find: fn(db: self ref Db, start: ref Dbptr,
attr: string): (ref Dbentry, ref Dbptr);
findpair: fn(db: self ref Db, start: ref Dbptr,
attr: string, value: string):
(ref Dbentry, ref Dbptr);
findbyattr: fn(db: self ref Db, start: ref Dbptr,
attr: string, value: string, rattr: string):
(ref Dbentry, ref Dbptr);
};
init: fn(): string;
parseentry: fn(s: string, lno: int): (ref Dbentry, int, string);
parseline: fn(s: string, lno: int): (ref Tuples, string);
.EE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Attrdb
fetches data from textual databases that contain groups of attribute-value pairs.
The format is defined by
.IR attrdb (6).
.PP
.B Init
must be called before any other function in the module.
.PP
Each logical database is represented by a
.B Db
value.
It can span several physical files, named in the body of a
.B database
attribute in the primary file of the database.
(If no such attribute appears, there is just the one physical file in the database.)
.TP
.BI Db.open( path )
Opens
.I path
as a database, and
returns a (reference to a)
.B Db
value that represents it.
On an error, it returns nil and the system error string contains a diagnostic.
If
.I path
contains a
.B database
attribute with associated attributes of the form
.BI file= filename,
the logical database is formed by (logically) concatenating the contents
of each
.I filename
in the order listed.
See
.IR attrdb (6)
for details.
.TP
.BI Db.sopen( data )
Treat the contents of the string
.I data
as a database, and return a
.B Db
value representing it.
.TP
.IB db1 .append( db2 )
Return a
.B Db
value that represents the result of logically appending
the contents of database
.I db2
to
.IR db1 .
.TP
.IB db .changed()
Return true iff one or more of the underlying files have changed since they were last read.
.TP
.IB db .reopen()
Discard any cached data, and reopen the database files.
Return 0 on success but -1 if any file could not be reopened.
.TP
.IB db .find( ptr , attr )
Starting at
.IR ptr ,
look in
.I db
for the next entry that contains an attribute
.I attr
and return a tuple
.BI ( e , ptr )
where
.I e
is a
.B Dbentry
value representing the whole entry, and
.I ptr
is a database pointer for the next entry.
If
.I attr
cannot be found,
.I e
is nil.
.TP
.IB db .findpair( ptr\fP,\fP\ attr\fP,\fP\ value\fP)
Starting at
.IR ptr ,
look in
.I db
for the next entry that contains the pair
.IB attr = value,
and return a tuple
.BI ( e , ptr )
where
.I e
is a
.B Dbentry
value representing the whole entry, and
.I ptr
is a database pointer for the next entry.
If the given pair
cannot be found,
.I e
is nil.
.TP
.IB db .findbyattr( ptr\fP,\fP\ attr\fP,\fP\ value\fP,\fP\ rattr\fP )
Starting at
.I ptr
in
.IR db ,
look for the next entry containing both the pair
.IB attr = value
and a pair with attribute
.IR rattr ;
return a tuple
.BI ( e , ptr )
where
.I e
is a
.B Dbentry
value representing the whole entry, and
.I ptr
is a database pointer for the next entry.
If no such entry can be found,
.I e
is nil.
.PP
.B Parseline
takes a line containing a set of space-separated
.IB attribute = value
pairs, and returns a tuple
.BI ( ts , err ) .
If the line's syntax is correct,
.I ts
is a
.B Tuples
value that represents the pairs as a list of
.B Attr
values.
If the syntax is wrong (eg, unmatched quote),
.I ts
is nil and
.I err
contains a diagnostic.
.SH SOURCE
.B /appl/lib/attrdb.b
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR cfg (2),
.IR attrdb (6),
.IR ndb (6)