rocksdb/table/internal_iterator.h

// Copyright (c) 2011-present, Facebook, Inc.  All rights reserved.
// This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
// LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
// of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
//

#pragma once

#include "rocksdb/iterator.h"
#include "rocksdb/status.h"

namespace rocksdb {

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

  // An iterator is either positioned at a key/value pair, or
  // not valid.  This method returns true iff the iterator is valid.
  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.
  virtual void Seek(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: !AtEnd() && !AtStart()
  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;

  // Make sure that all current and future data blocks used by this iterator
  // will be pinned in memory and will not be released except when
  // ReleasePinnedData() is called or the iterator is deleted.
  virtual Status PinData() { return Status::NotSupported(""); }

  // Release all blocks that were pinned because of PinData() and no future
  // blocks will be pinned.
  virtual Status ReleasePinnedData() { return Status::NotSupported(""); }

  // If true, this means that the Slice returned by key() is valid as long
  // as the iterator is not deleted and ReleasePinnedData() is not called.
  //
  // IsKeyPinned() is guaranteed to always return true if
  //  - PinData() is called
  //  - DB tables were created with BlockBasedTableOptions::use_delta_encoding
  //    set to false.
  virtual bool IsKeyPinned() const { return false; }

 private:
  // No copying allowed
  InternalIterator(const InternalIterator&) = delete;
  InternalIterator& operator=(const InternalIterator&) = delete;
};

// Return an empty iterator (yields nothing).
extern InternalIterator* NewEmptyInternalIterator();

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

}  // namespace rocksdb