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34 .TH CONFDB_OBJECT_CREATE 3 2008-04-17 "openais Man Page" "Openais Programmer's Manual"
36 confdb_object_create \- Create a new object in the Configuration Database
38 .B #include <openais/confdb.h>
40 .BI "confdb_error_t confdb_object_create(confdb_handle_t " handle ", unsigned int " parent_object_handle ",
41 .BI void " *object_name ",
42 .BI int " object_name_len ",
43 .BI unsigned int " *object_handle "); "
47 .B confdb_object_create
48 function create a new object in the configuration database. Objects may contain other sub-objects or
51 On success the handle of the new object is returned in
53 This value should be used to refer to the object in future, eg when retrieving sub-keys or if the
55 .B parent_object_handle
56 is the handle of the object that is the parent of the new object. This can be
57 .B OBJECT_PARENT_HANDLE
58 if the new object is to be a child of the top-level object.
60 Object names are not required to be unique in the database. If you call
61 .B confdb_object_create
62 twice with the same parameters you will create two different objects with the same name
63 but distinct object handles. You can iterate through similarly name objects using the
67 This call returns the CONFDB_OK value if successful, otherwise an error is returned.
70 The errors are undocumented.
72 .BR confdb_initialize (3),
73 .BR confdb_finalize (3),
74 .BR confdb_fd_get (3),
75 .BR confdb_dispatch (3),
76 .BR confdb_object_create (3),
77 .BR confdb_object_destroy (3),
78 .BR confdb_object_parent_get (3),
79 .BR confdb_key_create (3),
80 .BR confdb_key_delete (3),
81 .BR confdb_key_get (3),
82 .BR confdb_key_replace (3),
83 .BR confdb_object_find_start (3),
84 .BR confdb_object_find (3),
85 .BR confdb_object_iter_start (3),
86 .BR confdb_object_iter (3),
87 .BR confdb_key_iter_start (3),
88 .BR confdb_key_iter (3),