Key-value store X

Abstraction layer over various key-value store backends in Rust. Tailored to fit the use-cases for Krill.

Switching between backends should be as simple as changing a configuration value.

For now an in-memory, filesystem and Postgres implementation are provided by default.

Usage

Create an instance of a KVX store and specify the storage backend using an URL. For example:

```rust let namespace = Namespace::parse("some-namespace")?;

// in memory backend let store = KeyValueStore::new(&Url::parse("memory://")?, namespace)?;

// use a file backend let store = KeyValueStore::new(&Url::parse("local://tmp")?, namespace)?;

// use a postgres backend let store = KeyValueStore::new(&Url::parse("postgres://user:password@host/database-name")?, namespace)?; ```

A store can be scoped using a namespace. A namespaces can be further divided up in (possibly nested) scopes.

Note that keys, scopes and namespaces have the Segment type, this is necessary to encode namespaces, scopes and keys to the filesystem.

The store supports basic key-value operations:

```rust fn isempty(&self) -> Result; fn has(&self, key: &Key) -> Result; fn hasscope(&self, scope: &Scope) -> Result; fn get(&self, key: &Key) -> Result>; fn listkeys(&self, scope: &Scope) -> Result>; fn listscopes(&self) -> Result>;

fn store(&self, key: &Key, value: Value) -> Result<()>; fn movevalue(&self, from: &Key, to: &Key) -> Result<()>; fn movescope(&self, from: &Scope, to: &Scope) -> Result<()>; fn delete(&self, key: &Key) -> Result<()>; fn delete_scope(&self, scope: &Scope) -> Result<()>;

fn clear(&self) -> Result<()>;

/// Migrate the namespace (and all key value pairs) for this store. fn migrate_namespace(&mut self, to: NamespaceBuf) -> Result<()>; ```

Transactions can be used to atomically perform a sequence of operations:

rust store.transaction(scope, &mut move |t: &dyn KeyValueStoreBackend| { let key = "counter".parse()?; let value = t.get(&key)?; let new_value = value.as_i64().unwrap_or_default() + 1; t.store(&key, Value::from(new_value))?; })?;

If a value (or a Result for that matter) needs to be returned from within a transaction, then the execute function can be used. The value can be a result type in case non kvx errors need to be returned.

Example code where self has a KeyValueStore and wants to return all keys in the global scope, but also verify that some reserved key is not used.

The main takeaway being that the closure that is passed in to execute can return something like Result<Result<T, E>, kvx::Error>.

rust pub fn list_verified_keys(&self) -> Result<Vec<Keys>, MyError> { self.store.execute(&Scope::global(), |kv| { let keys = kv.list_keys(&Scope::global())?; let forbidden_key = Key::new_global(segment!("reserved")); if keys.contains(&forbidden_key) { Ok(Err(MyError::ForbiddenKey)) } else { Ok(Ok(keys)) } }) .map_err(MyError::from) }

A queue mechanism enables creating and handling tasks. A job can be scheduled at a certain time.

Example: ```rust use kvx::queue;

fn queue(store: &KeyValueStore) -> Result<(), kvx::Error> { let name = "job"; let segment = Segment::parse(name).unwrap(); let value = Value::from("value");

// schedule a task
queue.schedule_task(
    segment.into(),
    value,
    None,
    ScheduleMode::FinishOrReplaceExisting,
)?;

// claim a pending task
let task_opt = queue.claim_scheduled_pending_task()?;

if let Some(task) = task_opt {
    // do stuff...

    // then finish the task
    queue.finish_running_task(&Key::from(&task))?;
}

Ok(())

}

```

Changelog

Version 0.8.0

This release introduces a number of breaking changes. In particular, we now use a dedicated type for Namespace and no longer prepend a namespace Segment to keys. And the Queue implementation has been overhauled.

Version 0.7.0

No functional changes were made, but the following updates were done for the published crate on crates.io: - Fix the reported license, it's BSD-3 - Update the GitHub repository link to the current location - Update Readme files for better readability on crates.io

Version 0.6.0

Breaking changes: - Implicit .json extension for keys on disk were removed (see PR #32)