While we're here, perhaps I am alone on this, or maybe it is just the perl client, but I think incr and decr should do their thing for new keys. Currently, in my experience, they return undef for new keys. I checked in my code and act accordingly.
Thoughts? Earl ----- Original Message ---- From: Dustin Sallings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Memcached list <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:36:22 PM Subject: binary protocol incr/decr proof-of-concept I've done an implementation of incr and decr in my test server and client (and my real client) as I'd described earlier as a sort of proof-of-concept and it seems to work as I was hoping it would. It retains much of the properties of the original incr and decr implementations, but never treats the number as an ascii string. Because of this, I felt that it was important to be able to optionally pass a default value into the mutation command. Since a value was needed, it also seemed important to pass the expiration for that value. Note that this does slightly conflict with the goal of keeping commands small and discrete since it may create a new mapping as a side-effect. However, I think it makes things a bit easier. The request packet looks like this: [normal packet stuff] [32-bit unsigned incr/decr amount] [32-bit unsigned default value] [32-bit signed expiration value] [key] The response packet looks like this: [32-bit unsigned new value] If the expiration is less than 0, the default value is ignored and a NOT_FOUND status will be returned (as before). I had implemented mutation with default in my client by using a sort of complicated combinations of mutate and add. I'm guessing other people either do the same thing (or worse, just a mutate or set). Note that flags are undefined here. We talked briefly about having flags defined for common encoding mechanisms such as the big-endian 32-bit unsigned integer used in this response (as would be retrieved using a normal ``get'' command). In the meantime, I've completely ignored the problem. Comments? -- Dustin Sallings ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
