go-ceph/README.md

# go-rados - Go bindings for RADOS distributed object store

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This project uses Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/).

## Installation

    go get github.com/noahdesu/go-rados

The native RADOS library and development headers are expected to be installed.

## Documentation

Detailed documentation is available at
<http://godoc.org/github.com/noahdesu/go-rados>.

### Connecting to a cluster

Connect to a Ceph cluster using a configuration file located in the default
search paths.

```go
conn, _ := rados.NewConn()
conn.ReadDefaultConfigFile()
conn.Connect()
```

A connection can be shutdown by calling the `Shutdown` method on the
connection object (e.g. `conn.Shutdown()`). There are also other methods for
configuring the connection. Specific configuration options can be set:

```go
conn.SetConfigOption("log_file", "/dev/null")
```

and command line options can also be used using the `ParseCmdLineArgs` method.

```go
args := []string{ "--mon-host", "1.1.1.1" }
err := conn.ParseCmdLineArgs(args)
```

For other configuration options see the full documentation.

### Object I/O

Object in RADOS can be written to and read from with through an interface very
similar to a standard file I/O interface:

```go
    // open a pool handle
    pool, err := conn.OpenPool("mypool")

    // write some data
    bytes_in := []byte("input data")
    err = pool.Write("obj", bytes_in, 0)

    // read the data back out
    bytes_out := make([]byte, len(bytes_in))
    n_out, err := pool.Read("obj", bytes_out, 0)

    if bytes_in != bytes_out {
        fmt.Println("Output is not input!")
    }
```

### Pool maintenance

The list of pools in a cluster can be retreived using the `ListPools` method
on the connection object. On a new cluster the following code snippet:

```go
pools, _ := conn.ListPools()
fmt.Println(pools)
```

will produce the output `[data metadata rbd]`, along with any other pools that
might exist in your cluster. Pools can also be created and destroyed. The
following creates a new, empty pool with default settings.

```go
conn.MakePool("new_pool")
```

Deleting a pool is also easy. Call `DeletePool(name string)` on a connection object to
delete a pool with the given name. The following will delete the pool named
`new_pool` and remove all of the pool's data.

```go
conn.DeletePool("new_pool")
```