corosync/man/confdb_key_create.3

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.TH CONFDB_KEY_CREATE 3 2008-04-17 "corosync Man Page" "Corosync Cluster Engine Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
confdb_key_create \- Add a new key/value pair to the Configuration Database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <corosync/confdb.h>
.sp
.BI "confdb_error_t confdb_key_create(confdb_handle_t " handle ",
.BI	unsigned int " parent_object_handle ",
.BI	void " *key_name ",
.Bi	int " key_name_len ",
.BI	void " *value ",
.BI	int " value_len "); "

.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B confdb_key_create
function adds a new key/value pair to the specified parent object. Parent objects may contain
many keys and also sub-objects. The names of keys are not required to be unique: if you
call
.B confdb_key_create
twice with the same parameters you will create two identical keys in the database.
.BR
The parent object should already exist in the database, it can be OBJECT_PARENT_HANDLE
(the top-level object) but this is not recommended.
.BR
Unlike objects, keys do not have handles, so you can't go directly to a non-unique key
without using the
.B confdb_key_iter
function.
.SH RETURN VALUE
This call returns the CONFDB_OK value if successful, otherwise an error is returned.
.PP
.SH ERRORS
The errors are undocumented.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR confdb_overview (8),
.BR confdb_initialize (3),
.BR confdb_finalize (3),
.BR confdb_dispatch (3),
.BR confdb_object_create (3),
.BR confdb_object_destroy (3),
.BR confdb_object_parent_get (3),
.BR confdb_key_create (3),
.BR confdb_key_delete (3),
.BR confdb_key_get (3),
.BR confdb_key_replace (3),
.BR confdb_object_find_start (3),
.BR confdb_object_find (3),
.BR confdb_object_iter_start (3),
.BR confdb_object_iter (3),
.BR confdb_key_iter_start (3),
.BR confdb_key_iter (3),
.PP