vmod_memcached

Varnish Memcached Module

Author

Aaron Stone

Author

Federico G. Schwindt

Author

Reza Naghibi

Date

2016-03-23

Version

1.0.1

Manual section

3

SYNOPSIS

import memcached;

DESCRIPTION

Varnish module to access memcached servers from VCL.

FUNCTIONS

servers

Prototype

servers(STRING servers)

Return value

VOID

Description

Set the memcached parameters for requests handled by this VCL.

Note, the old style of a comma seperated server list is no longer supported.

Syntax to specify a server: "--SERVER=ip:port"

See http://docs.libmemcached.org/libmemcached_configuration.html for all supported options.

Please note that if you supply an invalid parameter string, Varnish will fail to start.

This will create a connection pool for all VCL threads to share from. Each active or available VCL will have its own connection pool.

If no --POOL-MAX parameter is specified, a pool will be created with a maximum of 40 connection.

Using this function outside of vcl_init or calling it twice will result in undefined behavior.

Example

# 2 memcached hosts
memcached.servers("--SERVER=hostA --SERVER=hostB:1234");

# advanced connection options
memcached.servers("--SERVER=10.1.1.14 --BINARY-PROTOCOL --POOL-MAX=10 --CONNECT-TIMEOUT=50 --RETRY-TIMEOUT=3");

pool_timeout_msec

Prototype

pool_timeout_msec(INT timeout)

Return value

VOID

Description

Set the maximum amount of time to wait for a connection, in milliseconds, if the entire connection pool is in use.

The default value is 3000.

Using this function outside of vcl_init will result in undefined behavior.

Example

# set the pool timeout of 10 seconds
memcached.pool_timeout_msec(10000);

error_string

Prototype

error_string(STRING value)

Return value

VOID

Description

Set the string that is returned on a get() error.

The default value is an empty string.

Using this function outside of vcl_init will result in undefined behavior.

Example

memcached.error_string("_ERROR");

get

Prototype

get(STRING key)

Return value

STRING

Description

Retrieve key from memcached and return the value.

On error, the value of error_string() is returned.

Example

set resp.http.value = memcached.get("key");

set

Prototype

set(STRING key, STRING value, INT expiration, INT flags)

Return value

VOID

Description

Set key to value, with an expiration time and flags.

Example

# Set "key" to "Hello world" with a 100s expiration.
memcached.set("key", "Hello world", 100, 0);

incr

Prototype

incr(STRING key, INT offset)

Return value

INT

Description

Increment key by offset and return the new value.

If the key does not exist or an error occurs, -1 is returned.

Example

# Increment "key" by 10 and return the new value.
set resp.http.value = memcached.incr("key", 10);

decr

Prototype

decr(STRING key, INT offset)

Return value

INT

Description

Decrement key by offset and return the new value.

If the key does not exist or an error occurs, -1 is returned.

Example

# Decrement "key" by 8 and return the new value.
set resp.http.value = memcached.decr("key", 8);

incr_set

Prototype

incr_set(STRING key, INT offset, INT initial, INT expiration)

Return value

INT

Description

Increment key by offset and return the new value. If key is not set, key will be set to initial with an expiration time.

This is only available when using the binary protocol.

If an error occurs, -1 is returned.

Example

# Increment "key" by 1 if set, otherwise set it to 10
# with no expiration.
set resp.http.value = memcached.incr_set("key", 1, 10, 0);

decr_set

Prototype

decr_set(STRING key, INT offset, INT initial, INT expiration)

Return value

INT

Description

Decrement key by offset and return the new value. If key is not set, key will be set to initial with an expiration time.

This is only available when using the binary protocol.

If an error occurs, -1 is returned.

Example

# Decrement "key" by 1 if set, otherwise set it to 10
# with no expiration.
set resp.http.value = memcached.decr_set("key", 1, 10, 0);

INSTALLATION

If you received this package without a pre-generated configure script, you must have the GNU Autotools installed, and can then run the 'autogen.sh' script. If you received this package with a configure script, skip to the second command-line under Usage to configure.

Usage:

# Generate configure script
./autogen.sh

# Execute configure script
./configure [PKG_CONFIG=PATH] [LIBMEMCACHED_CFLAGS=COMPILE] [LIBMEMCACHED_LIBS=LINK]

The configure script uses pkg-config to find the libmemcached library. You may specify the pkg-config binary by setting the PKG_CONFIG option. If you do not wish to use pkg-config, you may set LIBMEMCACHED_CFLAGS and LIBMEMCACHED_LIBS as necessary to compile and link with libmemcached.

Make targets:

• make - builds the vmod
• make install - installs your vmod
• make check - runs the unit tests in src/tests/*.vtc

SEE ALSO

• http://memcached.org/
• http://libmemcached.org/