Chapter 1. Boost.Mysql

Boost C++ Libraries

Chapter 1. Boost.Mysql

Ruben Perez

Copyright © 2019-2022 Ruben Perez

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Motivation
Requirements
Acknowledgements

MySQL values

Conversions
A note on string values
Relational operators

Text queries

Prepared statements

Rows
Reading rows
Resultsets becoming complete
Metadata
When does the server send the rows?

Going async

Completion tokens
Default completion tokens
Cancellations and timeouts
Sequencing of operations

SSL-enabled streams
When is the SSL handshake performed?
SSL negotiation

UNIX sockets and other stream types

Error handling and available overloads

Connection parameters

Authentication
Connect with database
Connection encoding and collation
SSL/TLS

Reconnecting a MySQL connection

Setup
Text query, synchronous
Prepared statements
Metadata
UNIX sockets
Text query, async with callbacks
Text query, async with futures
Text query, async with Boost.Coroutine coroutines
Text query, async with C++20 coroutines
Default completion tokens
Timeouts
Setting SSL options

MySQL to C++ mapping reference

Building and running the tests

Last revised: March 30, 2022 at 13:56:53 GMT