Sun Microsystems manual Sun StorageTek 5800 System Client API, Changes in Version

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Sun StorageTek 5800 System Client API

The SunTM StorageTekTM 5800 system client API provides programmatic access to a 5800 system server to store, retrieve, query, and delete object data and metadata. Synchronous versions are provided in C and JavaTM languages. A future release will implement a non-blocking C API for use with POSIX operations.

This chapter provides a summary of the changes for the Sun StorageTek 5800 System 1.1 release, and overviews of the client APIs and query language.

The following topics are discussed:

■“Changes in Version 1.1” on page 15

■“5800 System Overview” on page 16

Changes in Version 1.1

The following general changes have been made in Version 1.1.

■Handling is added for storing, retrieving, and querying the following metadata types:

–char — for Latin 1 character set

–string — for Unicode character set

–binary

–date

–time

–timestamp

■Query and queryplus are merged.

■Prepared statements (pstmts) are introduced to handle the values of queries that cannot be placed inline, and a new query is introduced to handle them.

■The handling of strings that are longer than the string length of the associated field has changed.

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