NAME¶

memcached_increment, memcached_decrement, memcached_increment_with_initial, memcached_decrement_with_initial - Manipulate counters

LIBRARY¶

C Client Library for memcached (libmemcached, -lmemcached)

SYNOPSIS¶

  #include <memcached.h>
  memcached_return
    memcached_increment (memcached_st *ptr, 
                         const char *key, size_t key_length,
                         unsigned int offset,
                         uint64_t *value);
  memcached_return
    memcached_decrement (memcached_st *ptr, 
                         const char *key, size_t key_length,
                         unsigned int offset,
                         uint64_t *value);
  memcached_return
    memcached_increment_with_initial (memcached_st *ptr,
                                      const char *key,
                                      size_t key_length,
                                      uint64_t offset,
                                      uint64_t initial,
                                      time_t expiration,
                                      uint64_t *value);
  memcached_return
    memcached_decrement_with_initial (memcached_st *ptr,
                                      const char *key,
                                      size_t key_length,
                                      uint64_t offset,
                                      uint64_t initial,
                                      time_t expiration,
                                      uint64_t *value);

DESCRIPTION¶

memcached(1) servers have the ability to increment and decrement keys (overflow and underflow are not detected). This gives you the ability to use memcached to generate shared sequences of values.

memcached_increment() takes a key and keylength and increments the value by the offset passed to it. The value is then returned via the unsigned int value pointer you pass to it.

memcached_decrement() takes a key and keylength and decrements the value by the offset passed to it. The value is then returned via the unsigned int value pointer you pass to it.

memcached_increment_with_initial() takes a key and keylength and increments the value by the offset passed to it. If the object specified by key does not exist, one of two things may happen: If the expiration value is MEMCACHED_EXPIRATION_NOT_ADD, the operation will fail. For all other expiration values, the operation will succeed by seeding the value for that key with a initial value to expire with the provided expiration time. The flags will be set to zero.The value is then returned via the unsigned int value pointer you pass to it.

memcached_decrement_with_initial() takes a key and keylength and decrements the value by the offset passed to it. If the object specified by key does not exist, one of two things may happen: If the expiration value is MEMCACHED_EXPIRATION_NOT_ADD, the operation will fail. For all other expiration values, the operation will succeed by seeding the value for that key with a initial value to expire with the provided expiration time. The flags will be set to zero.The value is then returned via the unsigned int value pointer you pass to it.

RETURN¶

A value of type "memcached_return" is returned. On success that value will be "MEMCACHED_SUCCESS". Use memcached_strerror() to translate this value to a printable string.

HOME¶

To find out more information please check: <http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html>

AUTHOR¶

Brian Aker, <brian@tangent.org>

SEE ALSO¶

memcached(1) libmemcached(3) memcached_strerror(3)