Gdbm source download

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New in this version: Pre-read the memory mapped regions on systems that support it. Preserve locking type during database reorganization. Project Homepage. Download Area. Each key must be unique, and is paired with a single data item. The keys are not ordered: if you want to retrieve the objects in sorted order you can build an external index. The basic operations on As for a Dictionary, the basic operations that may be performed on a GdbmFile are to fetch , test for existence , store and delete records.

Classes derived from the abstract Packing class may pack ojbects for storage as byte arrays , Unicode or ASCII strings , as serialized Java objects , or in a user-defined fashion.

The packing strategy is defined at runtime for both the key and value of the records. Some example code is available in the test harness GdbmTest.