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md_doc_help_elektra-glossary - elektra-glossary(7) -- glossary of Elektra

  • Configuration settings: customize applications towards the users needs.
  • Configuration storage: makes configuration settings persistent. The application will read the configuration at every start from the configuration storage, but it is only stored if a user changes settings.
  • Key databases: are used for configuration storages because of these constraints. They can do fast key lookups and the keys can be structured hierarchically by defining separators in the key names.
  • Global key database: provides global access to all configuration storages of all applications in a system. Abbreviated as KDB.
  • LibElektra: is a set of libraries to access configuration parameters in a global, hierarchical key database.
  • SpecElektra: is a specification language that allows us to describe the content of the global key database.
  • Elektra: is a framework consisting of LibElektra, SpecElektra, and a collection of tools.
  • To elektrify an application: to change the application so that it uses LibElektra afterwards.
  • Elektra Initiative: is a community that develops LibElektra, expands SpecElektra, improves Elektra's tooling and helps to elektrify applications.

Technical Concepts

  • Backends: A collection of plugins to be mounted. A backend typically is responsible to read and write a configuration file.
  • Bootstrapping: To read the mounting configuration and mount during kdbOpen().
  • Cascading: To consider multiple places to look for a key.
  • Contracts: Contracts state the purpose, functionality and requirements of plugins.
  • Mounting: To persistently and permanently include a backend in the global key database.
  • Namespaces: Allow us to have multiple keys for the same purpose and otherwise the same key name.
  • Plugins: The unit of implementation for a feature.
  • Metadata: Allows us to describe configuration settings.

Details

  • Sync Flag: Marks keys that were changed and need to be written out to disc.
  • Null Keys, Null Values: The absence of keys or values.
  • pop: used in ksPop() and KDB_O_POP means to remove a key from a keyset.
  • delete: or abbr. del, used in keyDel(), ksDel() and KDB_O_DEL means to free a key or keyset. The memory can be used for something else afterwards.
  • remove: means that the key-value information in the physical database will be removed permanently.
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