sharedObjectProperties: Get/Set the properties of a shared object.

sharedObjectPropertiesR Documentation

Get/Set the properties of a shared object.

Description

Get/Set the properties of a shared object.

Usage

sharedObjectProperties(x, ..., literal = TRUE)

## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
sharedObjectProperties(x, ..., literal = TRUE)

## S4 method for signature 'list'
sharedObjectProperties(x, ..., literal = TRUE)

getCopyOnWrite(x)

getSharedSubset(x)

getSharedCopy(x)

setCopyOnWrite(x, value)

setSharedSubset(x, value)

setSharedCopy(x, value)

Arguments

x

A shared object

...

The name of the property(s), it can be either symbols or characters. if the argument is missing, it means getting all properties. See examples.

literal

Whether the parameters in ... are always treated as characters.

value

The value of the property

Details

For numeric objects, the properties are dataId, length, totalSize, dataType, ownData, copyOnWrite, sharedSubset, sharedCopy.

For character objects, the properties are length, unitSize,totalSize,dataType,uniqueChar,copyOnWrite.

Note that only copyOnWrite, sharedSubset and sharedCopy are mutable. The other attributes are read-only.

Value

get: The property(s) of a shared object

set: The old property(s)

Examples

## For numeric objects
x1 <- share(1:10)

## Get attributes
sharedObjectProperties(x1)
sharedObjectProperties(x1, copyOnWrite)
sharedObjectProperties(x1, "copyOnWrite")
props <- "copyOnWrite"
sharedObjectProperties(x1, props, literal = FALSE)
getCopyOnWrite(x1)

## Set attributes
sharedObjectProperties(x1, copyOnWrite = FALSE)
setCopyOnWrite(x1, FALSE)

## For character objects
x2 <- share(letters)
sharedObjectProperties(x2)

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