An efficient memcached client that simply wraps around libmemcached.

libmemcached 1.0+ should be installed. OTP should be R15B or above.

./rebar compile

a memcached_drv.so is created under priv/lib.

start the application

mcache:start(). 

  or

application:start(mcache).

get

mcache:get(Prefix, Key)

fetches <Prefix>:<Key> from memcached.

• Prefix and Key can be atom, string, binary, list or tuple. tuple/list items are separated by ":".
• returns undefined if not found.
• unbox to correct format according to the type it was set. (see mcache:set)

set

mcache:set(Prefix, Key, Value, Type, Timeout)

• Prefix and Key can be atom, list, binary, iolist or integer.
• Value: depends on Type, can be binary, iolist, int or erlang term.
• Type: can be one of raw (binary), native (erlang term, saved in term_to_binary format), int (an integer).
• Timeout: can be one of default (default expiration: 300 seconds), infinity, {X, seconds}, {X, minutes}, {X, hours}, {X, days}, or an integer (as is).

Note 1: no reply is returned for best performance.
Note 2: Type is encoded as memcached protocol field flags: 0 - raw, 100 - native, 103 - int.

delete

mcache:delete(Prefix, Key)

pools

{pools,  % defines several pools
 	[{name,generic}, % pool name
 	 {connection_count,10},
 	 {servers,[{"127.0.0.1:11211",255},{"192.168.1.1:11211",255}]}] % servers and weights
 	% another pool definition, ....
}

expires

{expires, 
  [ {prefix1, {PoolName, Timeout1}},
    {prefix2, {PoolName, Timeout2}} ]
}

• PoolName: is one of the pool names from pools definitions.
• Timeout: sees the timeout definition of mcache:set function.