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NAME
       CHI::Driver::HandlerSocket - Use DBI for cache storage, but access it
       using the Net::HandlerSocket API for MySQL

SYNOPSIS
        use CHI;

        # Supply a DBI handle
        #
        my $cache = CHI->new( driver => 'HandlerSocket', dbh => DBI->connect(...) );

        # or a DBIx::Connector
        my $cache = CHI->new( driver => 'HandlerSocket', dbh => DBIx::Connector->new(...) );

        # or code that generates a DBI handle
        #
        my $cache = CHI->new( driver => 'HandlerSocket', dbh => sub { ...; return $dbh } );

DESCRIPTION
       This driver uses a MySQL database table to store the cache.  It
       accesses it by way of the Net::HandlerSocket API and associated MySQL
       plug-in:

       http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-story-for.html
       <http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-as-nosql-
       story-for.html>

       https://github.com/ahiguti/HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL
       <https://github.com/ahiguti/HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL>

       Why cache things in a database?  Isn't the database what people are
       trying to avoid with caches?

       This is often true, but a simple primary key lookup is extremely fast
       in MySQL and HandlerSocket absolutely screams, avoiding most of the
       locking that normally happens and completing as many updates/queries as
       it can at once under the same lock.  Avoiding parsing SQL is also a
       huge performance boost.

ATTRIBUTES
       host
       read_port
       write_port
           Host and port the MySQL server with the SocketHandler plugin is
           running on.  The connection is TCP.  Two connections are used, one
           for reading, one for writing, following the design of
           Net::HandlerSocket.  The write port locks the table even for reads,
           reportedly.  Default is "localhost", 9998, and 9999.

       namespace
           The namespace you pass in will be appended to the "table_prefix"
           and used as a table name.  That means that if you don't specify a
           namespace or table_prefix the cache will be stored in a table
           called "chi_Default".

       table_prefix
           This is the prefix that is used when building a table name.  If you
           want to just use the namespace as a literal table name, set this to
           undef.  Defaults to "chi_".

       dbh The DBI handle used to communicate with the db.

           You may pass this handle in one of three forms:

           o   a regular DBI handle

           o   a DBIx::Connector object

           o   a code reference that will be called each time and is expected
               to return a DBI handle, e.g.

                   sub { My::Rose::DB->new->dbh }

           The last two options are valuable if your CHI object is going to
           live for enough time that a single DBI handle might time out, etc.

Authors
       CHI::Driver::HandlerSocket by Scott Walters (scott@slowass.net) for
       Plain Black Corp, <http://plainblack.com>.  CHI::Driver::HandlerSocket
       is based on CHI::Driver::DBI.

       CHI::Driver::DBI Authors:  Original version by Justin DeVuyst and
       Perrin Harkins. Currently maintained by Jonathan Swartz.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
       Copyright (c) Plain Black Corp 2011 Copyright (c) Scott Walters
       (scrottie) 2011 Copyright (c) Justin DeVuyst

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

POD ERRORS
       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained
       below:

       Around line 108:
           You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'