// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package driver defines interfaces to be implemented by database // drivers as used by package sql. // // Most code should use package sql. package driver import "errors" // A driver Value is a value that drivers must be able to handle. // A Value is either nil or an instance of one of these types: // // int64 // float64 // bool // []byte // string [*] everywhere except from Rows.Next. // time.Time type Value interface{} // Driver is the interface that must be implemented by a database // driver. type Driver interface { // Open returns a new connection to the database. // The name is a string in a driver-specific format. // // Open may return a cached connection (one previously // closed), but doing so is unnecessary; the sql package // maintains a pool of idle connections for efficient re-use. // // The returned connection is only used by one goroutine at a // time. Open(name string) (Conn, error) } // ErrSkip may be returned by some optional interfaces' methods to // indicate at runtime that the fast path is unavailable and the sql // package should continue as if the optional interface was not // implemented. ErrSkip is only supported where explicitly // documented. var ErrSkip = errors.New("driver: skip fast-path; continue as if unimplemented") // Execer is an optional interface that may be implemented by a Conn. // // If a Conn does not implement Execer, the db package's DB.Exec will // first prepare a query, execute the statement, and then close the // statement. // // Exec may return ErrSkip. type Execer interface { Exec(query string, args []Value) (Result, error) } // Conn is a connection to a database. It is not used concurrently // by multiple goroutines. // // Conn is assumed to be stateful. type Conn interface { // Prepare returns a prepared statement, bound to this connection. Prepare(query string) (Stmt, error) // Close invalidates and potentially stops any current // prepared statements and transactions, marking this // connection as no longer in use. // // Because the sql package maintains a free pool of // connections and only calls Close when there's a surplus of // idle connections, it shouldn't be necessary for drivers to // do their own connection caching. Close() error // Begin starts and returns a new transaction. Begin() (Tx, error) } // Result is the result of a query execution. type Result interface { // LastInsertId returns the database's auto-generated ID // after, for example, an INSERT into a table with primary // key. LastInsertId() (int64, error) // RowsAffected returns the number of rows affected by the // query. RowsAffected() (int64, error) } // Stmt is a prepared statement. It is bound to a Conn and not // used by multiple goroutines concurrently. type Stmt interface { // Close closes the statement. // // Closing a statement should not interrupt any outstanding // query created from that statement. That is, the following // order of operations is valid: // // * create a driver statement // * call Query on statement, returning Rows // * close the statement // * read from Rows // // If closing a statement invalidates currently-running // queries, the final step above will incorrectly fail. // // TODO(bradfitz): possibly remove the restriction above, if // enough driver authors object and find it complicates their // code too much. The sql package could be smarter about // refcounting the statement and closing it at the appropriate // time. Close() error // NumInput returns the number of placeholder parameters. // // If NumInput returns >= 0, the sql package will sanity check // argument counts from callers and return errors to the caller // before the statement's Exec or Query methods are called. // // NumInput may also return -1, if the driver doesn't know // its number of placeholders. In that case, the sql package // will not sanity check Exec or Query argument counts. NumInput() int // Exec executes a query that doesn't return rows, such // as an INSERT or UPDATE. Exec(args []Value) (Result, error) // Exec executes a query that may return rows, such as a // SELECT. Query(args []Value) (Rows, error) } // ColumnConverter may be optionally implemented by Stmt if the // the statement is aware of its own columns' types and can // convert from any type to a driver Value. type ColumnConverter interface { // ColumnConverter returns a ValueConverter for the provided // column index. If the type of a specific column isn't known // or shouldn't be handled specially, DefaultValueConverter // can be returned. ColumnConverter(idx int) ValueConverter } // Rows is an iterator over an executed query's results. type Rows interface { // Columns returns the names of the columns. The number of // columns of the result is inferred from the length of the // slice. If a particular column name isn't known, an empty // string should be returned for that entry. Columns() []string // Close closes the rows iterator. Close() error // Next is called to populate the next row of data into // the provided slice. The provided slice will be the same // size as the Columns() are wide. // // The dest slice may be populated only with // a driver Value type, but excluding string. // All string values must be converted to []byte. // // Next should return io.EOF when there are no more rows. Next(dest []Value) error } // Tx is a transaction. type Tx interface { Commit() error Rollback() error } // RowsAffected implements Result for an INSERT or UPDATE operation // which mutates a number of rows. type RowsAffected int64 var _ Result = RowsAffected(0) func (RowsAffected) LastInsertId() (int64, error) { return 0, errors.New("no LastInsertId available") } func (v RowsAffected) RowsAffected() (int64, error) { return int64(v), nil } // ResultNoRows is a pre-defined Result for drivers to return when a DDL // command (such as a CREATE TABLE) succeeds. It returns an error for both // LastInsertId and RowsAffected. var ResultNoRows noRows type noRows struct{} var _ Result = noRows{} func (noRows) LastInsertId() (int64, error) { return 0, errors.New("no LastInsertId available after DDL statement") } func (noRows) RowsAffected() (int64, error) { return 0, errors.New("no RowsAffected available after DDL statement") }