kamailio/lib/srdb1/db_pool.h

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/**
 * \file lib/srdb1/db_pool.h
 * \brief Functions for managing a pool of database connections.
 * \ingroup db1
 */

#ifndef _DB1_POOL_H
#define _DB1_POOL_H

#include "db_id.h"
#include "db_con.h"


/**
 * This is a stub that contains all attributes
 * that pool members must have, it is not really
 * used, real connection structures are created
 * by database backends. All such structures (
 * created by the backends) must have these
 * attributes.
 */
struct pool_con {
	struct db_id* id;        /**< Connection identifier */
	unsigned int ref;        /**< Reference count */
	struct pool_con* next;   /**< Next element in the pool */
};


/**
 * Search the pool for a connection with the identifier equal to
 * the id.
 * \param id searched id
 * \return the connection if it could be found, NULL otherwise
 */
struct pool_con* pool_get(const struct db_id* id);


/**
 * Insert a new connection into the pool.
 * \param con the inserted connection 
 */
void pool_insert(struct pool_con* con);


/**
 * Release a connection from the pool, the function
 * would return 1 when if the connection is not
 * referenced anymore and thus can be closed and
 * deleted by the backend. The function returns
 * 0 if the connection should still be kept open
 * because some other module is still using it.
 * The function returns -1 if the connection is
 * not in the pool.
 * \param con connection that should be removed
 * \return 1 if the connection can be freed, 0 if it can't be freed, -1 if not found
 */
int pool_remove(struct pool_con* con);


#endif /* _DB1_POOL_H */