[odb-users] Configure MySQL client connection

Aarón Bueno Villares abv150ci at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 20:54:26 EST 2016


Thanks for you reply. It's pretty clear.

There is, however, a possibility that the (network) connection to the
> database will be lost at some point. In
> this case, the pool will try to automatically re-connect by creating a new
> connection.
>

In the case of disconnection... for example, if in a constructor of a class
(a main class which lifecycle is the application's one), I create a
transaction, and call transaction::connection() to asign the returned
reference to a member of my object (for example, to be used/check later or
whatever), and the connection is lost, will that connection object be
destroyed under any circunstance?

My doubt comes from that sentence from the docs:

To obtain a connection we call the database::connection() function. The
> connection is returned as odb::connection_ptr, which is an
> implementation-specific smart pointer with the shared pointer semantics.
> (...). Once the last instance of connection_ptr pointing to the same
> connection is destroyed, the connection is returned to the database
> instance.
>

So since as you said, after a disconnection the database will try to get a
new connection, it means that it won't reuse the previous connection
object, and consequently, it is useless and can be a target of deletion if
"there is no more instances of connection_ptr pointing to the same
connection" (if there's no more instances of connection_ptr, the database
thinks it's the only owner of the object, and thus, it can delete it if it
is useless).

But, since I have got the connection as a reference, and saved that
connection, it could point to a destroyed object because the database
thought nobody had access to it.

Is it that scene likely, or the internal behaviour of ODB works differently
as I've depicted?


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