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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2015-02-14 11:55:18 +0200
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+vmod-variable -- history of user-visible changes. 2015-02-14
+Copyright (C) 2015 Sergey Poznyakoff
+See the end of file for copying conditions.
+
+Please send vmod-variable bug reports to <gray@gnu.org>
+
+
+Version 0.0.1, (git)
+
+Initial release
+
+=========================================================================
+Copyright information:
+
+Copyright (C) 2015 Sergey Poznyakoff
+
+ Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
+ of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
+ copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
+ thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
+
+ Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
+ of this document, or of portions of it,
+ under the above conditions, provided also that they
+ carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
+
+Local variables:
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+paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
+eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+time-stamp-start: "changes. "
+time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d"
+time-stamp-end: "\n"
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+Vmod-variable README
+Copyright (C) 2015 Sergey Poznyakoff
+See the end of file for copying conditions.
+
+* Introduction
+
+This file contains brief information about configuring, testing
+and using vmod-variable. It is *not* intended as a replacement
+for the documentation, and is provided as a brief reference only.
+For accessing complete vmod-variable documentation, see the section
+'Documentation' below.
+
+For a list of differences between this module and vmod_var, see
+the section "vmod_variable vs. vmod_var".
+
+* Overview
+
+This module provides extended variable support for VCL scripts.
+It compiles for Varnish versions 3 and 4.
+
+There are two kinds of variables: session-specific, which have the
+lifespan of one HTTP session (connection) and cease to exist when
+it is closed, and global, which are shared between all sessions.
+
+Session-specific variables are typed, a pair of functions is provided
+for setting and retrieveng variables od a particular type. For
+example the function set_duration sets a duration variable, and
+get_duration retrieves its value:
+
+ set beresp.ttl = variable.get_int("ttl");
+
+Special functions are provided for testing if a variable is defined:
+the defined() function returns true if the variable is defined, and
+the type_of() function returns the type of the variable.
+
+A special fearure of this module are regset() and queryset()
+functions. The regset() function allows you to parse a string
+(e.g. a URL or header value) according to a regular expression
+and to set several variables at once to selected substrings of
+the input string, optionally converting between different types.
+For example, the fragment below sets ttl and grace parameters of
+the object according to the Surrogate-Control header:
+
+ variable.regset("ttl:d=\1s,grace:d=\2s",
+ "^(?:.*,)?max-age=([0-9]+)(?:+([0-9]+))",
+ beresp.http.Surrogate-Control);
+ set beresp.ttl = variable.get_duration("ttl");
+ set beresp.grace = variable.get_duration("grace");
+
+The first argument to regset declares a list of variables to be
+set, along with their types (":d" standing for "duration") and
+values to be assigned (after = signs). The latter use backreferenses
+to refer to the substrings captured by the regular expression and add
+the "s" suffix to each captured string to obtain a valid duration.
+
+To obtain the same effect without variable.regset, one would have to
+use regsub twice, casting the result explicitly
+
+ set beresp.ttl = std.duration(regsub(beresp.http.Surrogate-Control,
+ "^(?:.*,)?max-age=([0-9]+)(?:+([0-9]+))",
+ "\1s"));
+ set beresp.grace = std.duration(regsub(beresp.http.Surrogate-Control,
+ "^(?:.*,)?max-age=([0-9]+)(?:+([0-9]+))",
+ "\2s"));
+
+The queryset() function treats its argument as a HTTP query, and
+defines variables according to it. For example:
+
+ variable.queryset("q:s,n:i,p:i", regsub(req.url, ".*\?(.+)", "\1"));
+
+If req.url contained "q=term&n=10&p=5", this call will define three
+variables: a string variable "q" having the value "term", and two
+integer variables "n" and "p" with the values 10 and 5
+correspondingly.
+
+* Functions
+
+** Typed accessors:
+
+VOID set(STRING name, STRING value)
+VOID set_string(STRING name, STRING name)
+ Define a string variable
+
+STRING get(STRING name)
+STRING get_string(STRING name)
+ Retrieve the value of a string variable
+
+VOID set_int(STRING name, INT value)
+ Define an integer variable
+INT get_int(STRING name)
+ Retrieve the value of an integer variable
+
+VOID set_real(STRING name, REAL value)
+ Define a floating-point variable
+REAL get_real(STRING name)
+ Retrieve the value of a floating-point variable
+
+VOID set_duration(STRING name, DURATION value)
+ Define a duration variable
+DURATION get_duration(STRING name)
+ Retrieve the value of a duration variable
+
+VOID unset(STRING name)
+ Unset the variable
+
+VOID clear()
+ Unset all variables
+
+** Testing for existence
+
+BOOL defined(STRING name)
+ Test if the variable is defined
+
+STRING type_of(STRING name)
+ Return type of the variable (one of: UNSET, STRING, INT,
+ REAL, DURATION)
+
+** Special functions
+
+VOID regset(STRING vardcl, STRING regex, STRING input)
+ If input matches regular expression regex, initializes variables
+ declared in vardcl to parts of input captured by parenthesized
+ groups in regex.
+
+ The parameter vardcl contains one or more comma-separated decla-
+ rations, each one having the syntax NAME[:TYPE][=VALUE] (brackets
+ denoting optional parts). The :TYPE suffix declares the type
+ of the variable (STRING, INT, REAL, DURATION). The =VALUE part
+ defines its value. It can refer to the nine captured
+ substrings via the usual notation \1 through \9.
+
+VOID queryset(STRING vardcl, STRING input)
+ Parses input as HTTP query string and assigns variables according
+ to vardcl.
+
+ If vardcl is empty, the function will define all variables
+ present in input to string values. Otherwies, only the named
+ variables will be set.
+
+ The value of the vardcl variable is a comma-separated list of
+ variable names, optionally followed by :TYPE construct, whose
+ meaning is the same as in regset.
+
+** Global variables
+
+VOID global_set(STRING name, STRING value)
+ Set a global variable
+STRING global_get(STRING name)
+ Retrieve the value of a global variable
+BOOL global_defined(STRING name)
+ Test whether the global variable is defined
+VOID global_unset(STRING name)
+ Unset a global variable
+VOID global_clear()
+ Unset all global variables
+
+* vmod_variable vs. vmod_var
+
+This module is backward-compatibile with vmod_var. To facilitate
+transition, it uses the same naming scheme, so switching to use
+vmod_variable in your VCL script is just a matter of replacing
+s/var\./variable./
+
+Main differences of vmod_variable from vmod_var:
+
+1. Both Varsnish 3 and 4 are supported;
+
+2. Variables are stored in hash tables with open addressing, to
+speed up accesses (vmod_var keeps them in singly-linked lists).
+
+3. Functions for testing existence and types of variables, and for
+unsetting a variable: defined(), type_of() and unset()
+
+4. The regset() and queryset() functions;
+
+5. Additional functions for global variables: global_clear(),
+global_defined() and global_unset().
+
+* Installation
+
+In order to compile the package you need to have a configured and
+compiled Varnish source tree. Both Varnish 3 and 4 are OK.
+
+Supposing that the varnish source tree is available under
+/usr/src/varnish-4.0.2, run:
+
+ ./configure --with-varnish-source=/usr/src/varnish-4.0.2
+
+The `--with-varnish-source' option is mandatory: it tells configure
+where Varnish sources reside.
+
+Once configured, do
+
+ make
+
+This will build the module. After this step you can optionally run
+'make test' to test the package.
+
+Finally, run the following command as root:
+
+ make install
+
+* Documentation
+
+The manual page vmod-variable(3) will be available after a successful
+install. To read it without actually installing the module, run
+`man src/vmod-variable.3'.
+
+An online copy of the documentation is available from
+http://www.gnu.org.ua/software/vmod-variable.
+
+* Bug reporting
+
+Send bug reports and suggestions to <gray@gnu.org>
+
+
+Local Variables:
+mode: outline
+paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$"
+version-control: never
+End:
+

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