Currently, the code is using bytes_opt and bytes_view_opt to represent
CQL values, which can hold a value or null. In preparation for
supporting a third state, unset value introduced in CQL v4, introduce
new raw_value and raw_value_view types and use them instead.
The new types are based on boost::variant<> and are capable of holding
null, unset values, and blobs that represent a value.
We use boost::any to convert to and from database values (stored in
serlialized form) and native C++ values. boost::any captures information
about the data type (how to copy/move/delete etc.) and stores it inside
the boost::any instance. We later retrieve the real value using
boost::any_cast.
However, data_value (which has a boost::any member) already has type
information as a data_type instance. By teaching data_type intances about
the corresponding native type, we can elimiante the use of boost::any.
While boost::any is evil and eliminating it improves efficiency somewhat,
the real goal is growing native type support in data_type. We will use that
later to store native types in the cache, enabling O(log n) access to
collections, O(1) access to tuples, and more efficient large blob support.
Store values as bytes view when possible. This improves the CQL protocol
option parsing path by avoiding allocating memory and copying individual
values as "bytes" objects.
Please note that we retain the non-view version for internal queries
where performance is not as important.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cloudius-systems.com>
Encapsulate the '_values' vector to make it easier to switch the
underlying type from bytes_opt to bytes_view_opt.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cloudius-systems.com>
To prepare a user-defined type, we need to look up its name in the keyspace.
While we get the keyspace name as an argument to prepare(), it is useless
without the database instance.
Fix the problem by passing a database reference along with the keyspace.
This precolates through the class structure, so most cql3 raw types end up
receiving this treatment.
Origin gets along without it by using a singleton. We can't do this due
to sharding (we could use a thread-local instance, but that's ugly too).
Hopefully the transition to a visitor will clean this up.
