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authortilghman <tilghman@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b>2011-01-19 21:24:25 +0000
committertilghman <tilghman@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b>2011-01-19 21:24:25 +0000
commit5ed8645f7d08cdac664e49815a1d7c64ff5fecb0 (patch)
tree164ff725c3223103bd05c664573f337a68146d22 /include
parentc9aff74ec3a6a85b1154de0bf81ee3d182125905 (diff)
Merged revisions 302680 via svnmerge from
https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.8 ................ r302680 | tilghman | 2011-01-19 15:23:31 -0600 (Wed, 19 Jan 2011) | 16 lines Merged revisions 302675 via svnmerge from https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.6.2 ................ r302675 | tilghman | 2011-01-19 15:22:45 -0600 (Wed, 19 Jan 2011) | 9 lines Merged revisions 302663 via svnmerge from https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4 ........ r302663 | tilghman | 2011-01-19 15:20:28 -0600 (Wed, 19 Jan 2011) | 2 lines Add some API documentation ........ ................ ................ git-svn-id: http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@302686 f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b
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-rw-r--r--include/asterisk/astdb.h27
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/asterisk/astdb.h b/include/asterisk/astdb.h
index e19784bad..4c1fa5890 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/astdb.h
+++ b/include/asterisk/astdb.h
@@ -33,22 +33,37 @@ struct ast_db_entry {
char data[0];
};
-/*! \brief Get key value specified by family/key */
+/*!\brief Get key value specified by family/key */
int ast_db_get(const char *family, const char *key, char *out, int outlen);
-/*! \brief Store value addressed by family/key*/
+/*!\brief Store value addressed by family/key */
int ast_db_put(const char *family, const char *key, const char *value);
-/*! \brief Delete entry in astdb */
+/*!\brief Delete entry in astdb */
int ast_db_del(const char *family, const char *key);
-/*! \brief Delete a whole family (for some reason also called "tree" */
+/*!\brief Delete one or more entries in astdb
+ * If both parameters are NULL, the entire database will be purged. If
+ * only keytree is NULL, all entries within the family will be purged.
+ * It is an error for keytree to have a value when family is NULL.
+ *
+ * \retval 0 Entries were deleted
+ * \retval -1 An error occurred
+ */
int ast_db_deltree(const char *family, const char *keytree);
-/*! \brief Get a whole family */
+/*!\brief Get a list of values within the astdb tree
+ * If family is specified, only those keys will be returned. If keytree
+ * is specified, subkeys are expected to exist (separated from the key with
+ * a slash). If subkeys do not exist and keytree is specified, the tree will
+ * consist of either a single entry or NULL will be returned.
+ *
+ * Resulting tree should be freed by passing the return value to ast_db_freetree()
+ * when usage is concluded.
+ */
struct ast_db_entry *ast_db_gettree(const char *family, const char *keytree);
-/*! \brief Free in-memory data */
+/*!\brief Free structure created by ast_db_gettree() */
void ast_db_freetree(struct ast_db_entry *entry);
#if defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus)