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31.Dd October 24, 2017
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.Ft "struct cdbr *"
45.Fn cdbr_open "const char *path" "int flags"
46.Ft "struct cdbr *"
47.Fo cdbr_open_mem
48.Fa "void *base"
49.Fa "size_t size"
50.Fa "void (*unmap)(void *, void *, size_t)"
51.Fa "void *cookie"
52.Fc
53.Ft uint32_t
54.Fn cdbr_entries "struct cdbr *cdbr"
55.Ft int
56.Fn cdbr_get "struct cdbr *cdbr" "uint32_t index" "const void **data" "size_t *datalen"
57.Ft int
58.Fo cdbr_find
59.Fa "struct cdbr *cdbr"
60.Fa "const void *key"
61.Fa "size_t keylen"
62.Fa "const void **data"
63.Fa "size_t *datalen"
64.Fc
65.Ft void
66.Fn cdbr_close "struct cdbr *cdbr"
67.Sh DESCRIPTION
68The
69.Nm
70library provides a space efficient (key,value) database based
71on perfect hashing.
72.Pp
73A cdb database is opened for reading by calling
74.Fn cdbr_open .
75The only supported value for
76.Va flags
77is
78.Dv CDBR_DEFAULT .
79The function returns a handle to pass to the other functions.
80The database is closed by invoking
81.Fn cdbr_close .
82All resources associated with the handle are freed and the memory
83returned by
84.Fn cdbr_get
85and
86.Fn cdbr_find
87is invalidated.
88.Fn cdbr_open_mem
89works like
90.Fn cdbr_open ,
91but takes a memory reference to the content of the database file.
92If
93.Va unmap
94is not
95.Dv NULL ,
96it is called by
97.Fn cdbr_close
98with
99.Va cookie ,
100.Va base
101and
102.Va size
103as arguments.
104It is not called by
105.Fn cdbr_open_mem
106on error.
107.Pp
108The number of records in the database can be obtained by calling
109.Fn cdbr_entries .
110Records can be obtained by record number using
111.Fn cdbr_get
112or by key using
113.Fn cdbr_find .
114Both functions return 0 on success and update
115.Va data
116and
117.Va datalen
118accordingly.
119The location
120.Va *data
121remains valid until
122.Fn cdbr_close
123is called.
124It is the responsibility of the caller of
125.Fn cdbr_find
126to ensure that the key matches the returned data.
127The function returns the only possible match, but the database doesn't store
128the keys to minimize overhead.
129.Sh SEE ALSO
130.Xr nbperf 1 ,
131.Xr cdbw 3 ,
132.Xr db 3 ,
133.Xr cdb 5
134.Sh HISTORY
135Support for the
136.Nm cdb
137format first appeared in
138.Nx 6.0 .
139.Sh AUTHORS
140The
141.Nm cdbr
142and
143.Nm cdbw
144functions have been written by
145.An Joerg Sonnenberger Aq Mt joerg@NetBSD.org .
146