Database
Database inherits from Object and defines instance variables dmOpenRef, localID. It has a subclass: ResourceDatabase.
Methods defined in Database:
Methods for initialization:
- dmOpenRef: pointer
- localID: newLocalID
Methods for low-level access:
- getRecord: index
Answer a handle to the record and mark it as busy.
- newRecordAt: index ofSize: size
Answers the handle for the new record. The record is initially marked as busy.
- queryRecord: index
Answer a handle to the record without setting the busy bit.
- releaseRecord: index dirty: dirty
- resizeRecord: index to: newSize
Methods for predicates:
Methods for record access:
- appendRecord: bytes
Answers the index of the new record. The record is added to the end of the database.
- archiveRecord: index
- deleteRecord: index
- insertRecord: bytes at: index
Answers the index of the new record.
- moveRecord: oldIndex to: newIndex
- recordAsBytes: index
- recordAsString: index
- recordCount
Record indexes are 0..recordCount-1
- removeRecord: index
- write: bytes intoRecord: recordIndex
bytes can be a String or ByteArray (or another byte indexable object).
Methods for utility:
- close
- removeSecretRecords
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