multilevel-http

Access a leveldb instance from multiple processes via HTTP.

A limitation of LevelDB is that only one process is allowed access to the underlying data. multilevel-http exports a LevelDB instance over http.

Installation

npm install multilevel-http

API

Server:

var multilevel = require('multilevel-http')
// db = levelup instance or path to db
var server = multilevel.server(db, meta)
server.listen(5000)

Client:

var multilevel = require('multilevel-http')
var db = multilevel.client('http://localhost:5000/')
// now you have the complete levelUP api!
// ...except for events, for now

For more advanced stuff (http auth, custom value encoding), checkout the examples folder.

CLI

$ sudo npm install -g multilevel-http
$ multilevel-http -p 5000 path/to.db

HTTP API

Params

Use get-params to pass options to LevelDB, like ?encoding=json

GET /meta

Get meta information about the DB.

// GET /meta
{
  "compression" : false,
  "cacheSize" : 8 * 1024 * 1024,
  "encoding" : 'utf8',
  "keyEncoding" : 'utf8',
  "valueEncoding" : 'utf8',
  "path" : path
}

GET /data/:key

Get tha value stored at :key.

// GET /data/foo
bar

POST /data/:key

Store data at :key.

// POST /data/foo bar
"ok"

DEL /data/:key

Delete data stored at :key.

// DEL /data/foo
"ok"

PUT /data

Store many values batched.

/* PUT /data [
  { key : 'bar', value : 'baz' },
  { key : 'foo', value : 'bar' }
] */

POST /data

Do many operations batched.

/* PUT /data [
  { type : 'put', key : 'bar', value : 'baz' },
  { type : 'del', key : 'foo' }
] */

GET /approximateSize/:from..:to

Get an approximation of disk space used to store the data in the given range.

// GET /approximateSize/a..z
123

GET /data

Get all the data.

// GET /data/12
[
  { key : 'bar', value : 'baz' },
  { key : 'foo', value : 'bar' },
  /* ... */
]

GET /range/:from..:to

Get all data in the given range.

// GET /range/a..c
[ { key : 'bar', value : 'baz' } ]

GET /keys

Get all the keys.

// GET /keys
[ 'bar', 'foo' ]

GET /keys/:from..:to

Get all the keys in the given range.

// GET /keys/a..c
[ 'bar' ]

GET /values

Get all the values.

// GET /values
[ 'baz', 'bar' ]

GET /values/:from..:to

Get all the values in the given range.

// GET /values/a..c
[ 'baz' ]

Server API

// server
var multilevel = require('multilevel-http')('my.db')
multilevel.listen(3000)

multilevel.server(path|db, meta)

server#listen(port)

Start serving on the given port.

server#{db,meta}

The stored db and meta data exposed.

License

(MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Julian Gruber <[email protected]>

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