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+(*
+ * Copyright (C) 2000, HELM Team.
+ *
+ * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
+ * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
+ * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
+ *
+ * HELM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * HELM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
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+ *
+ * For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
+ * http://cs.unibo.it/helm/.
+ *)
+
+exception Key_already_in of string;;
+exception Key_not_found of string;;
+
+class map dbname =
+ let perm = 420 in (* permission 644 in decimal notation *)
+ let db = Dbm.opendbm dbname [ Dbm.Dbm_rdwr; Dbm.Dbm_create ] perm in
+ object (self)
+
+ inherit ThreadSafe.threadSafe
+
+ initializer Gc.finalise Dbm.close db (* close db on GC *)
+
+ method add key value =
+ self#doWriter (lazy (
+ try
+ Dbm.add db key value
+ with Dbm.Dbm_error "Entry already exists" -> raise (Key_already_in key)
+ ))
+
+ method remove key =
+ self#doWriter (lazy (
+ try
+ Dbm.remove db key
+ with Dbm.Dbm_error "dbm_delete" -> raise (Key_not_found key)
+ ))
+
+ method resolve key =
+ self#doReader (lazy (
+ try Dbm.find db key with Not_found -> raise (Key_not_found key)
+ ))
+
+ method iter (f: string -> string -> unit) =
+ self#doReader (lazy (
+ Dbm.iter f db
+ ))
+
+ method clear =
+ self#doWriter (lazy (
+ Dbm.iter (fun k _ -> Dbm.remove db k) db
+ ))
+
+ end
+