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A code stub generator for MySQL and Drizzle plugins

Hartmut Holzgraefe (...???...)
2:00pm Thursday, 04/14/2011
Drizzle, PHP and MySQL, Storage Engine Development and Optimization
 Location: Ballroom B
Tags: mysql, drizzle, plugin, storage_engine
Presentation: A code stub generator for MySQL and Drizzle plugins Presentation 1 [PDF]

Writing a plugin from scratch requires to deal with

  • setting up its plug.in build file
  • writing a lot of global registration code
  • writing a lot of additional repetitive registration code for things like configuration or status variables, functions, ...
  • ...
  • setting up tests
  • ...

The code generator framework presented takes care of most of the above by using XML as sort of a domain specific language to describe the infrastructure aspects of a plugin with the options to either embed actual functionality C/C++ code into the XML specification files right away or to extend the generated template code manually later.

A simple daemon plugin for example that just prints extra startup and shutdown messages could then look as easy as below and would be ready for testing within only a few minutes:

<?xml version=”1.0”?> Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@mysql.com GPL 0.0.1 2004-05-25 beta First working release minimal daemon plugin printf(“plugin initialized”); printf(“plugin destroyed”);

Hartmut Holzgraefe

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