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1 .TH "MEMCACHED_MGET_EXECUTE_BY_KEY" "3" "April 07, 2011" "0.47" "libmemcached"
2 .SH NAME
3 memcached_mget_execute_by_key \- libmemcached Documentation
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34 Get a value
35 .SH LIBRARY
36 .sp
37 C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, \-lmemcached)
38 .SH SYNOPSIS
39 .sp
40 .nf
41 .ft C
42 #include <libmemcached/memcached.h>
43
44 memcached_result_st *
45 memcached_fetch_result (memcached_st *ptr,
46 memcached_result_st *result,
47 memcached_return_t *error);
48
49 char *
50 memcached_get (memcached_st *ptr,
51 const char *key, size_t key_length,
52 size_t *value_length,
53 uint32_t *flags,
54 memcached_return_t *error);
55
56 memcached_return_t
57 memcached_mget (memcached_st *ptr,
58 const char * const *keys,
59 const size_t *key_length,
60 size_t number_of_keys);
61 char *
62 memcached_get_by_key (memcached_st *ptr,
63 const char *master_key, size_t master_key_length,
64 const char *key, size_t key_length,
65 size_t *value_length,
66 uint32_t *flags,
67 memcached_return_t *error);
68
69 memcached_return_t
70 memcached_mget_by_key (memcached_st *ptr,
71 const char *master_key, size_t master_key_length,
72 const char * const *keys,
73 const size_t *key_length,
74 size_t number_of_keys);
75
76 char *
77 memcached_fetch (memcached_st *ptr,
78 char *key, size_t *key_length,
79 size_t *value_length,
80 uint32_t *flags,
81 memcached_return_t *error);
82
83 memcached_return_t
84 memcached_fetch_execute (memcached_st *ptr,
85 memcached_execute_fn *callback,
86 void *context,
87 uint32_t number_of_callbacks);
88
89
90 memcached_return_t
91 memcached_mget_execute (memcached_st *ptr,
92 const char * const *keys,
93 const size_t *key_length,
94 size_t number_of_keys,
95 memcached_execute_fn *callback,
96 void *context,
97 uint32_t number_of_callbacks);
98
99 memcached_return_t
100 memcached_mget_execute_by_key (memcached_st *ptr,
101 const char *master_key,
102 size_t master_key_length,
103 const char * const *keys,
104 const size_t *key_length,
105 size_t number_of_keys,
106 memcached_execute_fn *callback,
107 void *context,
108 uint32_t number_of_callbacks);
109 .ft P
110 .fi
111 .SH DESCRIPTION
112 .sp
113 memcached_get() is used to fetch an individual value from the server. You
114 must pass in a key and its length to fetch the object. You must supply
115 three pointer variables which will give you the state of the returned
116 object. A uint32_t pointer to contain whatever flags you stored with the value,
117 a size_t pointer which will be filled with size of of the object, and a
118 memcached_return_t pointer to hold any error. The object will be returned
119 upon success and NULL will be returned on failure. Any object returned by
120 memcached_get() must be released by the caller application.
121 .sp
122 memcached_mget() is used to select multiple keys at once. For multiple key
123 operations it is always faster to use this function. This function always
124 works asynchronously. memcached_fetch() is then used to retrieve any keys
125 found. No error is given on keys that are not found. You must call either
126 memcached_fetch() or memcached_fetch_result() after a successful call to
127 memcached_mget(). You should continue to call these functions until they
128 return NULL (aka no more values). If you need to quit in the middle of a
129 memcached_get() call, execute a memcached_quit(). After you do this, you can
130 issue new queries against the server.
131 .sp
132 memcached_fetch() is used to fetch an individual value from the server.
133 memcached_mget() must always be called before using this method. You
134 must pass in a key and its length to fetch the object. You must supply
135 three pointer variables which will give you the state of the returned
136 object. A uint32_t pointer to contain whatever flags you stored with the value,
137 a size_t pointer which will be filled with size of of the object, and a
138 memcached_return_t pointer to hold any error. The object will be returned
139 upon success and NULL will be returned on failure. MEMCACHD_END is returned
140 by the *error value when all objects that have been found are returned.
141 The final value upon MEMCACHED_END is null. Values returned by
142 memcached_fetch() musted be free\(aqed by the caller. memcached_fetch() will
143 be DEPRECATED in the near future, memcached_fetch_result() should be used
144 instead.
145 .sp
146 memcached_fetch_result() is used to return a memcached_result_st(3) structure
147 from a memcached server. The result object is forward compatible with changes
148 to the server. For more information please refer to the memcached_result_st(3)
149 help. This function will dynamically allocate a result structure for you
150 if you do not pass one to the function.
151 .sp
152 memcached_fetch_execute() is a callback function for result sets. Instead
153 of returning the results to you for processing, it passes each of the
154 result sets to the list of functions you provide. It passes to the function
155 a memcached_st that can be cloned for use in the called function (it can not
156 be used directly). It also passes a result set which does not need to be freed.
157 Finally it passes a "context". This is just a pointer to a memory reference
158 you supply the calling function. Currently only one value is being passed
159 to each function call. In the future there will be an option to allow this
160 to be an array.
161 .sp
162 memcached_mget_execute() and memcached_mget_execute_by_key() is
163 similar to memcached_mget(), but it may trigger the supplied callbacks
164 with result sets while sending out the queries. If you try to perform
165 a really large multiget with memcached_mget() you may encounter a
166 deadlock in the OS kernel (we fail to write data to the socket because
167 the input buffer is full). memcached_mget_execute() solves this
168 problem by processing some of the results before continuing sending
169 out requests. Please note that this function is only available in the
170 binary protocol.
171 .sp
172 memcached_get_by_key() and memcached_mget_by_key() behave in a similar nature
173 as memcached_get() and memcached_mget(). The difference is that they take
174 a master key that is used for determining which server an object was stored
175 if key partitioning was used for storage.
176 .sp
177 All of the above functions are not supported when the \fBMEMCACHED_BEHAVIOR_USE_UDP\fPhas been set. Executing any of these functions with this behavior on will result in
178 \fBMEMCACHED_NOT_SUPPORTED\fP being returned or, for those functions which do not return
179 a \fBmemcached_return_t\fP, the error function parameter will be set to
180 \fBMEMCACHED_NOT_SUPPORTED\fP.
181 .SH RETURN
182 .sp
183 All objects returned must be freed by the calling application.
184 memcached_get() and memcached_fetch() will return NULL on error. You must
185 look at the value of error to determine what the actual error was.
186 .sp
187 MEMCACHED_KEY_TOO_BIG is set to error whenever memcached_fetch() was used
188 and the key was set larger then MEMCACHED_MAX_KEY, which was the largest
189 key allowed for the original memcached ascii server.
190 .SH HOME
191 .sp
192 To find out more information please check:
193 \fI\%https://launchpad.net/libmemcached\fP
194 .SH AUTHOR
195 .sp
196 Brian Aker, <\fI\%brian@tangent.org\fP>
197 .SH SEE ALSO
198 .sp
199 memcached(1) libmemcached(3) memcached_strerror(3)
200 .SH AUTHOR
201 Brian Aker
202 .SH COPYRIGHT
203 2011, Brian Aker
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