rocksdb/include/rocksdb/iterator.h

// Copyright (c) 2011-present, Facebook, Inc.  All rights reserved.
//  This source code is licensed under both the GPLv2 (found in the
//  COPYING file in the root directory) and Apache 2.0 License
//  (found in the LICENSE.Apache file in the root directory).
// Copyright (c) 2011 The LevelDB Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file. See the AUTHORS file for names of contributors.
//
// An iterator yields a sequence of key/value pairs from a source.
// The following class defines the interface.  Multiple implementations
// are provided by this library.  In particular, iterators are provided
// to access the contents of a Table or a DB.
//
// Multiple threads can invoke const methods on an Iterator without
// external synchronization, but if any of the threads may call a
// non-const method, all threads accessing the same Iterator must use
// external synchronization.

#pragma once

#include <string>
#include "rocksdb/cleanable.h"
#include "rocksdb/slice.h"
#include "rocksdb/status.h"

namespace rocksdb {

class Iterator : public Cleanable {
 public:
  Iterator() {}
  virtual ~Iterator() {}

  // An iterator is either positioned at a key/value pair, or
  // not valid.  This method returns true iff the iterator is valid.
  // Always returns false if !status().ok().
  virtual bool Valid() const = 0;

  // Position at the first key in the source.  The iterator is Valid()
  // after this call iff the source is not empty.
  virtual void SeekToFirst() = 0;

  // Position at the last key in the source.  The iterator is
  // Valid() after this call iff the source is not empty.
  virtual void SeekToLast() = 0;

  // Position at the first key in the source that at or past target.
  // The iterator is Valid() after this call iff the source contains
  // an entry that comes at or past target.
  // All Seek*() methods clear any error status() that the iterator had prior to
  // the call; after the seek, status() indicates only the error (if any) that
  // happened during the seek, not any past errors.
  virtual void Seek(const Slice& target) = 0;

  // Position at the last key in the source that at or before target.
  // The iterator is Valid() after this call iff the source contains
  // an entry that comes at or before target.
  virtual void SeekForPrev(const Slice& target) = 0;

  // Moves to the next entry in the source.  After this call, Valid() is
  // true iff the iterator was not positioned at the last entry in the source.
  // REQUIRES: Valid()
  virtual void Next() = 0;

  // Moves to the previous entry in the source.  After this call, Valid() is
  // true iff the iterator was not positioned at the first entry in source.
  // REQUIRES: Valid()
  virtual void Prev() = 0;

  // Return the key for the current entry.  The underlying storage for
  // the returned slice is valid only until the next modification of
  // the iterator.
  // REQUIRES: Valid()
  virtual Slice key() const = 0;

  // Return the value for the current entry.  The underlying storage for
  // the returned slice is valid only until the next modification of
  // the iterator.
  // REQUIRES: Valid()
  virtual Slice value() const = 0;

  // If an error has occurred, return it.  Else return an ok status.
  // If non-blocking IO is requested and this operation cannot be
  // satisfied without doing some IO, then this returns Status::Incomplete().
  virtual Status status() const = 0;

  // If supported, renew the iterator to represent the latest state. The
  // iterator will be invalidated after the call. Not supported if
  // ReadOptions.snapshot is given when creating the iterator.
  virtual Status Refresh() {
    return Status::NotSupported("Refresh() is not supported");
  }

  // Property "rocksdb.iterator.is-key-pinned":
  //   If returning "1", this means that the Slice returned by key() is valid
  //   as long as the iterator is not deleted.
  //   It is guaranteed to always return "1" if
  //      - Iterator created with ReadOptions::pin_data = true
  //      - DB tables were created with
  //        BlockBasedTableOptions::use_delta_encoding = false.
  // Property "rocksdb.iterator.super-version-number":
  //   LSM version used by the iterator. The same format as DB Property
  //   kCurrentSuperVersionNumber. See its comment for more information.
  // Property "rocksdb.iterator.internal-key":
  //   Get the user-key portion of the internal key at which the iteration
  //   stopped.
  virtual Status GetProperty(std::string prop_name, std::string* prop);

 private:
  // No copying allowed
  Iterator(const Iterator&);
  void operator=(const Iterator&);
};

// Return an empty iterator (yields nothing).
extern Iterator* NewEmptyIterator();

// Return an empty iterator with the specified status.
extern Iterator* NewErrorIterator(const Status& status);

}  // namespace rocksdb