a C library for accessing rethinkdb servers
#include <rethinkdb.h>
// connect to the rethinkdb server (addr, port, milliseconds_timeout)
struct rethinkdb_connection *r = rethinkdb_init("127.0.0.1", 28015, 1000);
// create a db (returns 0 on success)
rethinkdb_create_db(r, "foobar");
// create a table (returns 0 on success)
rethinkdb_create_table(r, "foobar", "mytable", NULL, NULL, 0);
// insert 3 json items
char *json[] = {
"{\"foo\": \"bar\"}",
"{\"foo2\": \"bar2\"}",
"{\"foo3\": \"bar3\"}",
};
// returns a json string with the response
rethinkdb_insert(r, "foobar", "mytable", json, 3, 0);
// get the items of a table (returns NULL on error)
unsigned int i, n_items = 0;
char **items = rethinkdb_table(r, "foobar", "mytable", 0, &n_items);
for(i=0;i<n_items;i++) {
printf("JSON = %s\n", items[i]);
}You need protobuf-c library (apt-get install libprotobuf-c0-dev)
simply run make then move the resulting librethinkdb.so to a libraries directory (like /usr/local/lib) and librethinkdb.h to a headers directory (like /usr/local/include)
Error checking is still flaky
Timeout is still unimplemented
The protobuf api is exposed, so while waiting for higher level functions you can build your queries using the Query, Term, ... objects