NAME

       KiokuDB::Backend - Backend interface role

VERSION

       version 0.56

SYNOPSIS

           package KiokuDB::Backend::Foo;
           use Moose;

           # load the core api and additional interfaces based on backend capabilities
           with qw(
               KiokuDB::Backend

               KiokuDB::Backend::Role::TXN
               KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Clear
               KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Scan
               KiokuDB::Backend::Role::UnicodeSafe
               KiokuDB::Backend::Role::BinarySafe
           );

           sub insert { ... }

           sub get { ... }

           sub delete { ... }

           sub exists { ... }

           # use the backend like this:

           my $dir = KiokuDB->new(
               backend => KiokuDB::Backend::Foo->new( );
           );

DESCRIPTION

       KiokuDB is designed to be fairly backend agnostic.

       This role defines the minimal API for writing new backends.

TRANSACTIONS

       This role is supplemented by KiokuDB::Backend::Role::TXN, a role for first class
       transaction support that issues rollbacks using the KiokuDB::Entry objects.

QUERYING

       This role is supplemented by KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Query, a role for backend specific
       queries.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Query::Simple provides a universal query api for backends that can
       perform property based lookup.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Query::GIN is a role for using Search::GIN based indexing/querying
       with backends that do not natively support querying.

REQUIRED METHODS

       get @ids
           Retrieve the KiokuDB::Entry objects associated with the @ids.

           If any other error is encountered, this method should die.

           The backend may store private data in "backend_data", to be used in a subsequent
           update.

           Returns a list of KiokuDB::Entry, with the order corresponding to @ids.  If an entry
           does not exist then "undef" should be returned in place of it. The backend may abort
           retrieval on the first non existent entry.

       insert @entries
           Insert entries to the store.

           If the backend is transactional this operation should be atomic with respect to the
           inserted/updated data.

           The backend is required to store the data in the fields "data", "class" using the key
           in "id".

           Entries which have an entry in "prev" denote updates (either objects that have been
           previously stored, or objects that were looked up). The previous entry may be used to
           compare state for issuing a partial update, and will contain the value of
           "backend_data" for any other state tracking.

           "object" is a weak reference to the object this entry is representing, and may be used
           for high level indexing. Do not use this field for storage.

           If this backend implements some form of garbage collection, "root" denotes that the
           objects is part of the root set.

           After all entries have been successfully written, "backend_data" should be set if
           necessary just as in "get".

           Has no return value.

           If "insert" does not die the write is assumed to be successful.

       delete @ids_or_entries
           Delete the specified IDs or entries.

           If the user provided objects then entries will be passed in. Any associated state the
           entries may have (e.g. a revision) should be used in order to enforce atomicity with
           respect to the time when the objects were loaded.

           After all entries have been successfully deleted, "deleted" should be set. The entry
           passed in is the same one as was loaded by "get" or last written by "insert", so it is
           already up to date in the live objects.

           Has no return value.

           If "delete" does not die the write is assumed to be successful.

       exists @ids
           Check for existence of the specified IDs, without retrieving their data.

           Returns a list of true or false values.

METHODS

       These methods are provided by the KiokuDB::Backend role, and may be overridden.

       new_from_dsn
           Parses the second half of the DSN using "parse_dsn_params" and instantiates a new
           object using "new_from_dsn".

           See KiokuDB::Util.

       new_from_dsn_params @args
           Takes DSN parameters and converts them to arguments suitable for "new"

       parse_dsn_params $str
           The string is split on ";" to produce arguments. Arguments in the form "foo=bar" are
           split on "=" into a key/value pair, and other arguments are treated as a boolean key
           and returned as "$arg => 1".

ADDITIONAL INTERFACES

       Your backend may include more roles, based on its capabilities.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize
       KiokuDB::Backend::Serialize::Delegate
           For the actual serialization of entries, there are a number of serialization roles.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Clear
           API for clearing all entries.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Scan
           API for enumerating entries.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::BinarySafe
       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::UnicodeSafe
           If your serialization is able to store arbitrary binary data and/or unicode strings,
           these informational roles should be included.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::TXN
           If your storage supports nested transactions ("txn_begin", "txn_commit" etc) this role
           provides the api to expose that functionality to the high level KiokuDB api.

       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Query
       KiokuDB::Backend::Role::Query::GIN
           If your backend supports querying of some sort, these are the roles to include.

           The querying API uses backend specific lookups to fetch entries, which KiokuDB will
           then relink into result objects.

SHARED BACKENDS

       A backend may be shared by several KiokuDB instances, each with its own distinct live
       object set. The backend may choose to share cached entry data, as that is not mutated by
       KiokuDB::Linker, but not the KiokuDB::Entry instances themselves.

AUTHOR

       Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Yuval Kogman, Infinity Interactive.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.