ceph/doc/api/librados.rst
Tommi Virtanen 3144fd73d9 doc: Flesh out librados API example, to show doxygen & sphinx integration.
Signed-off-by: Tommi Virtanen <tommi.virtanen@dreamhost.com>
2011-08-30 12:37:12 -07:00

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Librados (C)
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.. highlight:: c
`Librados` provides low-level access to the RADOS service. For an
overview of RADOS, see :doc:`/architecture`.
Example: connecting and writing an object
=========================================
To use `Librados`, you instantiate a :c:type:`rados_t` variable and
call :c:func:`rados_create()` with a pointer to it::
int err;
rados_t cluster;
err = rados_create(&cluster, NULL);
if (err < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot open a rados connection: %s\n", argv[0], strerror(-err));
exit(1);
}
Then you open an "IO context", a :c:type:`rados_ioctx_t`, with :c:func:`rados_ioctx_create()`::
rados_ioctx_t io;
char *poolname = "mypool";
err = rados_ioctx_create(cluster, poolname, &io);
if (err < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot open rados pool %s: %s\n", argv[0], poolname, strerror(-err));
rados_shutdown(conn);
exit(1);
}
Note that the pool you try to access must exist.
Then you can use the RADOS data manipulation functions, for example
write into an object called ``greeting`` with
:c:func:`rados_write_full()`::
err = rados_write_full(io, "greeting", "hello", 5);
if (err < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: cannot write pool %s: %s\n", argv[0], poolname, strerror(-err));
rados_ioctx_destroy(io);
rados_shutdown(conn);
exit(1);
}
In the end, you'll want to close your IO context and connection to RADOS with :c:func:`rados_ioctx_destroy()` and :c:func:`rados_shutdown()`::
rados_ioctx_destroy(io);
rados_shutdown(conn);
API calls
=========
.. todo:: this document mentions individual entries, and not all of
librados.h, because processing the whole file in takes 2
minutes
.. .. doxygenfile:: rados/librados.h
Cluster operations
------------------
.. doxygentypedef:: rados_t
.. doxygenfunction:: rados_create
.. doxygenfunction:: rados_shutdown
IO Context
----------
.. doxygentypedef:: rados_ioctx_t
.. doxygenfunction:: rados_ioctx_create
.. doxygenfunction:: rados_ioctx_destroy
Operations on objects
---------------------
.. doxygenfunction:: rados_write_full