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31.Dd December 1, 2018
32.Dt CDBR 3
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm cdbr ,
36.Nm cdbr_open ,
37.Nm cdbr_open_mem ,
38.Nm cdbr_entries ,
39.Nm cdbr_get ,
40.Nm cdbr_find ,
41.Nm cdbr_close
42.Nd constant database access methods
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In cdbr.h
45.Ft "struct cdbr *"
46.Fn cdbr_open "const char *path" "int flags"
47.Ft "struct cdbr *"
48.Fo cdbr_open_mem
49.Fa "void *base"
50.Fa "size_t size"
51.Fa "int flags"
52.Fa "void (*unmap)(void *, void *, size_t)"
53.Fa "void *cookie"
54.Fc
55.Ft uint32_t
56.Fn cdbr_entries "struct cdbr *cdbr"
57.Ft int
58.Fn cdbr_get "struct cdbr *cdbr" "uint32_t index" "const void **data" "size_t *datalen"
59.Ft int
60.Fo cdbr_find
61.Fa "struct cdbr *cdbr"
62.Fa "const void *key"
63.Fa "size_t keylen"
64.Fa "const void **data"
65.Fa "size_t *datalen"
66.Fc
67.Ft void
68.Fn cdbr_close "struct cdbr *cdbr"
69.Sh DESCRIPTION
70The
71.Nm
72library provides a space efficient (key,value) database based
73on perfect hashing.
74.Pp
75A cdb database is opened for reading by calling
76.Fn cdbr_open .
77The only supported value for
78.Va flags
79is
80.Dv CDBR_DEFAULT .
81The function returns a handle to pass to the other functions.
82The database is closed by invoking
83.Fn cdbr_close .
84All resources associated with the handle are freed and the memory
85returned by
86.Fn cdbr_get
87and
88.Fn cdbr_find
89is invalidated.
90.Fn cdbr_open_mem
91works like
92.Fn cdbr_open ,
93but takes a memory reference to the content of the database file.
94If
95.Va unmap
96is not
97.Dv NULL ,
98it is called by
99.Fn cdbr_close
100with
101.Va cookie ,
102.Va base
103and
104.Va size
105as arguments.
106It is not called by
107.Fn cdbr_open_mem
108on error.
109.Pp
110The number of records in the database can be obtained by calling
111.Fn cdbr_entries .
112Records can be obtained by record number using
113.Fn cdbr_get
114or by key using
115.Fn cdbr_find .
116Both functions return 0 on success and update
117.Va data
118and
119.Va datalen
120accordingly.
121The location
122.Va *data
123remains valid until
124.Fn cdbr_close
125is called.
126It is the responsibility of the caller of
127.Fn cdbr_find
128to ensure that the key matches the returned data.
129The function returns the only possible match, but the database doesn't store
130the keys to minimize overhead.
131.Sh SEE ALSO
132.Xr nbperf 1 ,
133.Xr cdbw 3 ,
134.Xr db 3 ,
135.Xr cdb 5
136.Sh HISTORY
137Support for the
138.Nm cdb
139format first appeared in
140.Nx 6.0 .
141.Sh AUTHORS
142The
143.Nm cdbr
144and
145.Nm cdbw
146functions have been written by
147.An Joerg Sonnenberger Aq Mt joerg@NetBSD.org .
148