libmysql++-dev 3.2.1+pristine-1 / usr / include / mysql++ / dbdriver.h

/// \file dbdriver.h
/// \brief Declares the DBDriver class.

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#if !defined(MYSQLPP_DBDRIVER_H)
#define MYSQLPP_DBDRIVER_H

#include "common.h"

#include "options.h"

#include <typeinfo>

#include <limits.h>

namespace mysqlpp {

/// \brief Provides a thin abstraction layer over the underlying database 
/// client library.
///
/// This class does as little as possible to adapt between its public
/// interface and the interface required by the underlying C API.  That
/// is, in fact, its only mission.  The high-level interfaces indended
/// for use by MySQL++ users are in Connection, Query, Result, and
/// ResUse, all of which delegate the actual database communication to
/// an object of this type, created by Connection.  If you really need
/// access to the low-level database driver, get it via
/// Connection::driver(); don't create DBDriver objects directly.
///
/// Currently this is a concrete class for wrapping the MySQL C API.
/// In the future, it may be turned into an abstract base class, with
/// subclasses for different database server types.

class MYSQLPP_EXPORT DBDriver
{
public:
	/// \brief Result code returned by next_result()
	enum nr_code {
		nr_more_results,	///< success, with more results to come
		nr_last_result,		///< success, last result received
		nr_error,			///< problem retrieving next result
		nr_not_supported	///< this C API doesn't support "next result"
	};

	/// \brief Create object
	DBDriver();

	/// \brief Duplicate an existing driver
	///
	/// \param other existing DBDriver object
	///
	/// This establishes a new database server connection with the same
	/// parameters as the other driver's.
	DBDriver(const DBDriver& other);

	/// \brief Destroy object
	virtual ~DBDriver();

	/// \brief Return the number of rows affected by the last query
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_affected_rows() in the MySQL C API.
	ulonglong affected_rows()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_affected_rows(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Get database client library version
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_get_client_info() in the MySQL C API.
	std::string client_version() const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_get_client_info();
	}

	/// \brief Establish a new connection using the same parameters as
	/// an existing connection.
	///
	/// \param mysql existing MySQL C API connection object
	bool connect(const MYSQL& mysql);

	/// \brief Connect to database server
	///
	/// If you call this method on an object that is already connected
	/// to a database server, the previous connection is dropped and a
	/// new connection is established.
	virtual bool connect(const char* host, const char* socket_name,
			unsigned int port, const char* db, const char* user,
			const char* password);

	/// \brief Return true if we have an active connection to the
	/// database server.
	///
	/// This does not actually check whether the connection is viable,
	/// it just indicates whether there was previously a successful
	/// connect() call and no disconnect().  Call ping() to actually
	/// test the connection's viability.
	bool connected() const { return is_connected_; }

	/// \brief Establish a new connection as a copy of an existing one
	///
	/// \param other the connection to copy
	void copy(const DBDriver& other);

	/// \brief Ask the database server to create a database
	///
	/// \param db name of database to create
	///
	/// \return true if database was created successfully
	bool create_db(const char* db) const;

	/// \brief Seeks to a particualr row within the result set
	///
	/// Wraps mysql_data_seek() in MySQL C API.
	void data_seek(MYSQL_RES* res, ulonglong offset) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		mysql_data_seek(res, offset);
	}

	/// \brief Drop the connection to the database server
	///
	/// This method should only be used by MySQL++ library internals.
	/// Unless you use the default constructor, this object should
	/// always be connected.
	void disconnect();

	/// \brief Drop a database
	///
	/// \param db name of database to destroy
	///
	/// \return true if database was created successfully
	bool drop_db(const std::string& db) const;

	/// \brief Enable SSL-encrypted connection.
	///
	/// \param key the pathname to the key file
	/// \param cert the pathname to the certificate file
	/// \param ca the pathname to the certificate authority file
	/// \param capath directory that contains trusted SSL CA
	///        certificates in pem format.
	/// \param cipher list of allowable ciphers to use
	///
	/// \return False if call fails or the C API library wasn't compiled
	/// with SSL support enabled.
	///
	/// Must be called before connection is established.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_ssl_set() in MySQL C API.
	bool enable_ssl(const char* key = 0, const char* cert = 0,
			const char* ca = 0, const char* capath = 0,
			const char* cipher = 0);

	/// \brief Return error message for last MySQL error associated with
	/// this connection.
	///
	/// Can return a MySQL++ DBDriver-specific error message if there
	/// is one.  If not, it simply wraps \c mysql_error() in the MySQL C API.
	const char* error()
	{
		return error_message_.length() ? error_message_.c_str() : mysql_error(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Return last MySQL error number associated with this
	/// connection
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_errno() in the MySQL C API.
	int errnum() { return mysql_errno(&mysql_); }

	/// \brief Return a SQL-escaped version of the given character
	/// buffer
	///
	/// \param to character buffer to hold escaped version; must
	/// point to at least (length * 2 + 1) bytes
	/// \param from pointer to the character buffer to escape
	/// \param length number of characters to escape
	///
	/// \retval number of characters placed in escaped
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_real_escape_string() in the MySQL C API.
	///
	/// Proper SQL escaping takes the database's current character set 
	/// into account, however if a database connection isn't available
	/// DBDriver also provides a static version of this same method.
	///
	/// \sa escape_string_no_conn(char*, const char*, size_t)
	size_t escape_string(char* to, const char* from, size_t length)
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_real_escape_string(&mysql_, to, from, 
				static_cast<unsigned long>(length));
	}

	/// \brief Return a SQL-escaped version of a character buffer
	///
	/// \param ps pointer to C++ string to hold escaped version; if
	/// original is 0, also holds the original data to be escaped
	/// \param original if given, pointer to the character buffer to
	/// escape instead of contents of *ps
	/// \param length if both this and original are given, number of
	/// characters to escape instead of ps->length()
	///
	/// \retval number of characters placed in *ps
	///
	/// This method has three basic operation modes:
	///
	/// - Pass just a pointer to a C++ string containing the original
	///   data to escape, plus act as receptacle for escaped version
	/// - Pass a pointer to a C++ string to receive escaped string plus
	///   a pointer to a C string to be escaped
	/// - Pass nonzero for all parameters, taking original to be a
	///   pointer to an array of char with given length; does not treat
	///   null characters as special
	///
	/// There's a degenerate fourth mode, where ps is zero: simply
	/// returns 0, because there is nowhere to store the result.
	///
	/// Note that if original is 0, we always ignore the length
	/// parameter even if it is nonzero.  Length always comes from
	/// ps->length() in this case.
	///
	/// ps is a pointer because if it were a reference, the other
	/// overload would be impossible to call: the compiler would
	/// complain that the two overloads are ambiguous because
	/// std::string has a char* conversion ctor. A nice bonus is that
	/// pointer syntax makes it clearer that the first parameter is an
	/// "out" parameter.
	///
	/// \see comments for escape_string(char*, const char*, size_t)
	/// for further details.
	/// 
	/// \sa escape_string_no_conn(std::string*, const char*, size_t)
	size_t escape_string(std::string* ps, const char* original,
			size_t length);

	/// \brief SQL-escapes the given string without reference to the 
	/// character set of a database server.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_escape_string() in the MySQL C API.
	///
	/// \sa escape_string(char*, const char*, size_t)
	static size_t escape_string_no_conn(char* to, const char* from,
			size_t length)
	{
		return mysql_escape_string(to, from,
				static_cast<unsigned long>(length));
	}

	/// \brief SQL-escapes the given string without reference to the 
	/// character set of a database server.
	///
	/// \sa escape_string(std::string*, const char*, size_t),
	/// escape_string_no_conn(char*, const char*, size_t)
	static size_t escape_string_no_conn(std::string* ps, 
			const char* original = 0, size_t length = 0);

	/// \brief Executes the given query string
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_real_query() in the MySQL C API.
	bool execute(const char* qstr, size_t length)
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return !mysql_real_query(&mysql_, qstr,
				static_cast<unsigned long>(length));
	}

	/// \brief Returns the next raw C API row structure from the given
	/// result set.
	///
	/// This is for "use" query result sets only.  "store" queries have
	/// all the rows already.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_fetch_row() in MySQL C API.
	MYSQL_ROW fetch_row(MYSQL_RES* res) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_fetch_row(res);
	}

	/// \brief Returns the lengths of the fields in the current row
	/// from a "use" query.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_fetch_lengths() in MySQL C API.
	const unsigned long* fetch_lengths(MYSQL_RES* res) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_fetch_lengths(res);
	}

	/// \brief Returns information about a particular field in a result
	/// set
	///
	/// \param res result set to fetch field information for
	/// \param i field number to fetch information for, if given
	///
	/// If i parameter is given, this call is like a combination of
	/// field_seek() followed by fetch_field() without the i parameter,
	/// which otherwise just iterates through the set of fields in the
	/// given result set.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_fetch_field() and mysql_fetch_field_direct() in
	/// MySQL C API.  (Which one it uses depends on i parameter.)
	MYSQL_FIELD* fetch_field(MYSQL_RES* res, size_t i = UINT_MAX) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return i == UINT_MAX ? mysql_fetch_field(res) :
				mysql_fetch_field_direct(res,
				static_cast<unsigned int>(i));
	}

	/// \brief Jumps to the given field within the result set
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_field_seek() in MySQL C API.
	void field_seek(MYSQL_RES* res, size_t field) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		mysql_field_seek(res, MYSQL_FIELD_OFFSET(field));
	}

	/// \brief Releases memory used by a result set
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_free_result() in MySQL C API.
	void free_result(MYSQL_RES* res) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		mysql_free_result(res);
	}

	/// \brief Return the connection options object
	st_mysql_options get_options() const { return mysql_.options; }

	/// \brief Get information about the IPC connection to the
	/// database server
	///
	/// String contains info about type of connection (e.g. TCP/IP,
	/// named pipe, Unix socket...) and the server hostname.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_get_host_info() in the MySQL C API.
	std::string ipc_info()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_get_host_info(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Get ID generated for an AUTO_INCREMENT column in the
	/// previous INSERT query.
	///
	/// \retval 0 if the previous query did not generate an ID.  Use
	/// the SQL function LAST_INSERT_ID() if you need the last ID
	/// generated by any query, not just the previous one.  This
	/// applies to stored procedure calls because this function returns
	/// the ID generated by the last query, which was a CALL statement,
	/// and CALL doesn't generate IDs.  You need to use LAST_INSERT_ID()
	/// to get the ID in this case.
	ulonglong insert_id()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_insert_id(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Kill a MySQL server thread
	///
	/// \param tid ID of thread to kill
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_kill() in the MySQL C API.
	///
	/// \see thread_id()
	bool kill(unsigned long tid)
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return !mysql_kill(&mysql_, tid);
	}

	/// \brief Returns true if there are unconsumed results from the
	/// most recent query.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_more_results() in the MySQL C API.
	bool more_results()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		#if MYSQL_VERSION_ID > 41000		// only in MySQL v4.1 +
			return mysql_more_results(&mysql_);
		#else
			return false;
		#endif
	}

	/// \brief Moves to the next result set from a multi-query
	///
	/// \return A code indicating whether we successfully found another
	/// result, there were no more results (but still success) or
	/// encountered an error trying to find the next result set.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_next_result() in the MySQL C API, with
	/// translation of its return value from magic integers to nr_code
	/// enum values.
	nr_code next_result()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		#if MYSQL_VERSION_ID > 41000		// only in MySQL v4.1 +
			switch (mysql_next_result(&mysql_)) {
				case 0:  return nr_more_results;
				case -1: return nr_last_result;
				default: return nr_error;
			}
		#else
			return nr_not_supported;
		#endif
	}

	/// \brief Returns the number of fields in the given result set
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_num_fields() in MySQL C API.
	int num_fields(MYSQL_RES* res) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_num_fields(res);
	}

	/// \brief Returns the number of rows in the given result set
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_num_rows() in MySQL C API.
	ulonglong num_rows(MYSQL_RES* res) const
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_num_rows(res);
	}

	/// \brief "Pings" the MySQL database
	///
	/// This function will try to reconnect to the server if the 
	/// connection has been dropped.  Wraps \c mysql_ping() in the MySQL C API.
	/// 
	/// \retval true if server is responding, regardless of whether we had
	/// to reconnect or not
	/// \retval false if either we already know the connection is down
	/// and cannot re-establish it, or if the server did not respond to
	/// the ping and we could not re-establish the connection.
	bool ping()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return !mysql_ping(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Returns version number of MySQL protocol this connection
	/// is using
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_get_proto_info() in the MySQL C API.
	int protocol_version()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_get_proto_info(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Returns information about the last executed query
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_info() in the MySQL C API
	std::string query_info();

	/// \brief Asks the database server to refresh certain internal data
	/// structures.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_refresh() in the MySQL C API.  There is no
	/// corresponding interface for this in higher level MySQL++ classes
	/// because it was undocumented until recently, and it's a pretty
	/// low-level thing.  It's designed for things like MySQL
	/// Administrator.
	bool refresh(unsigned options)
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return !mysql_refresh(&mysql_, options);
	}

	/// \brief Returns true if the most recent result set was empty
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_field_count() in the MySQL C API, returning true
	/// if it returns 0.
	bool result_empty()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_field_count(&mysql_) == 0;
	}

	/// \brief Asks the database server to switch to a different database
	bool select_db(const char* db)
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return !mysql_select_db(&mysql_, db);
	}

	/// \brief Get the database server's version number
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_get_server_info() in the MySQL C API.
	std::string server_version()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_get_server_info(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Sets a connection option
	///
	/// This is the database-independent high-level option setting
	/// interface that Connection::set_option() calls.  There are
	/// several private overloads that actually implement the option
	/// setting.
	///
	/// \see Connection::set_option(Option*) for commentary
	bool set_option(Option* o);

	/// \brief Set MySQL C API connection option
	///
	/// \internal Wraps \c mysql_options() in C API.
	bool set_option(mysql_option moption, const void* arg = 0)
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return !mysql_options(&mysql_, moption,
				static_cast<const char*>(arg));
	}

	#if MYSQL_VERSION_ID >= 40101
	/// \brief Set MySQL C API connection option
	///
	/// \internal Wraps \c mysql_set_server_option() in C API.
	bool set_option(enum_mysql_set_option msoption)
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return !mysql_set_server_option(&mysql_, msoption);
	}
	#endif

	/// \brief Set MySQL C API connection option
	///
	/// Manipulates the MYSQL.client_flag bit mask.  This allows these
	/// flags to be treated the same way as any other connection option,
	/// even though the C API handles them differently.
	bool set_option(unsigned int option, bool arg);

	/// \brief Same as set_option(), except that it won't override
	/// a previously-set option.
	bool set_option_default(Option* o)
	{
		const std::type_info& ti = typeid(o);
		for (OptionList::const_iterator it = applied_options_.begin();
				it != applied_options_.end();
				++it) {
			if (typeid(*it) == ti) {
				delete o;
				return "";		// option of this type already set
			}
		}

		return set_option(o);
	}

	/// \brief Ask database server to shut down.
	///
	/// User must have the "shutdown" privilege.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_shutdown() in the MySQL C API.
	bool shutdown();

	/// \brief Returns the database server's status
	///
	/// String is similar to that returned by the \c mysqladmin
	/// \c status command.  Among other things, it contains uptime 
	/// in seconds, and the number of running threads, questions
	/// and open tables.
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_stat() in the MySQL C API.
	std::string server_status()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_stat(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Saves the results of the query just execute()d in memory
	/// and returns a pointer to the MySQL C API data structure the
	/// results are stored in.
	///
	/// \sa use_result()
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_store_result() in the MySQL C API.
	MYSQL_RES* store_result()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_store_result(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Returns true if MySQL++ and the underlying MySQL C API
	/// library were both compiled with thread awareness.
	///
	/// This is based in part on a MySQL C API function
	/// mysql_thread_safe().  We deliberately don't call this wrapper
	/// thread_safe() because it's a misleading name: linking to
	/// thread-aware versions of the MySQL++ and C API libraries doesn't
	/// automatically make your program "thread-safe".  See the
	/// <a href="../userman/threads.html">chapter on threads</a> in the
	/// user manual for more information and guidance.
	static bool thread_aware();

	/// \brief Tells the underlying MySQL C API library that this thread
	/// is done using the library.
	///
	/// This exists because the MySQL C API library allocates some per-thread
	/// memory which it doesn't release until you call this.
	static void thread_end()
	{
		#if MYSQL_VERSION_ID > 40000		// only in MySQL v4.0 +
			mysql_thread_end();
		#endif
	}

	/// \brief Returns the MySQL server thread ID for this connection
	///
	/// This has nothing to do with threading on the client side. It's
	/// a server-side thread ID, to be used with kill().
	unsigned long thread_id()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_thread_id(&mysql_);
	}

	/// \brief Tells the underlying C API library that the current
	/// thread will be using the library's services.
	///
	/// \retval True if there was no problem
	///
	/// The MySQL++ user manual's <a href="../userman/threads.html">chapter
	/// on threads</a> details two major strategies for dealing with
	/// connections in the face of threads.  If you take the simpler
	/// path, creating one DBDriver object per thread, it is never
	/// necessary to call this function; the underlying C API will call it
	/// for you when you establish the first database server connection
	/// from that thread.  If you use a more complex connection
	/// management strategy where it's possible for one thread to
	/// establish a connection that another thread uses, you must call
	/// this from each thread that can use the database before it creates
	/// any MySQL++ objects.  If you use a DBDriverPool object, this
	/// applies; DBDriverPool isn't smart enough to call this for you,
	/// and the MySQL C API won't do it, either.
	static bool thread_start()
	{
		#if MYSQL_VERSION_ID > 40000		// only in MySQL v4.0 +
			return !mysql_thread_init();
		#else
			return false;
		#endif
	}

	/// \brief Returns a result set from the last-executed query which
	/// we can walk through in linear fashion, which doesn't store all
	/// result sets in memory.
	///
	/// \sa store_result
	///
	/// Wraps \c mysql_use_result() in the MySQL C API.
	MYSQL_RES* use_result()
	{
		error_message_.clear();
		return mysql_use_result(&mysql_);
	}

protected:
	/// \brief Does things common to both connect() overloads, before
	/// each go and establish the connection in their different ways.
	bool connect_prepare();

	/// \brief Common implementation of set_option(Option*) and the
	/// delayed option setting code in connect_prepare()
	bool set_option_impl(Option* o);

private:
	/// \brief Data type of the list of applied connection options
	typedef std::deque<Option*> OptionList;

	/// \brief Iterator into an OptionList
	typedef OptionList::iterator OptionListIt;

	/// \brief Hidden assignment operator; we don't want to be copied
	/// that way.  What would it mean?
	DBDriver& operator=(const DBDriver&);

	MYSQL mysql_;
	bool is_connected_;
	OptionList applied_options_;
	OptionList pending_options_;
	mutable std::string error_message_;
};


} // end namespace mysqlpp

#endif // !defined(MYSQLPP_DBDRIVER_H)