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<h2><a name="Functions">Functions and naming
conventions</a></h2>
<h2><a name="Functions">Functions and Naming Conventions</a></h2>
<p> The naming of the functions present in the library is usually
made of a prefix describing the object associated to the function
composed by a prefix describing the object associated to the function
and a verb describing the action on that object.</p>
<p> For each first class object you will find apis
<p> For each first class object you will find APIs
for the following actions:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Lookup</b>:...LookupByName,</li>
<li><b>Enumeration</b>:virConnectList... and virConnectNumOf...:
those are used to enumerate a set of object available to an given
hypervisor connection like:
<code class='docref'>virConnectListDomains</code>,
<code class='docref'>virConnectNumOfDomains</code>,
<code class='docref'>virConnectListNetworks</code>,
<code class='docref'>virConnectListStoragePools</code>, etc.</li>
<li><b>Description</b>: ...GetInfo: those are generic accessor providing
a set of informations about an object, they are
<code class='docref'>virNodeGetInfo</code>,
<code class='docref'>virDomainGetInfo</code>,
<code class='docref'>virStoragePoolGetInfo</code>,
<code class='docref'>virStorageVolGetInfo</code>.</li>
<li><b>Accessors</b>: ...Get... and ...Set...: those are more specific
accessors to query or modify the given object, like
<code class='docref'>virConnectGetType</code>,
<code class='docref'>virDomainGetMaxMemory</code>,
<code class='docref'>virDomainSetMemory</code>,
<code class='docref'>virDomainGetVcpus</code>,
<code class='docref'>virStoragePoolSetAutostart</code>,
<code class='docref'>virNetworkGetBridgeName</code>, etc.</li>
<li><b>Creation</b>: </li>
<li><b>Destruction</b>: ... </li>
<li><b>Lookup</b> [...LookupBy...]
<p>Used to perform lookups on objects by some type of identifier,
such as:</p>
<ul>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainLookupByID</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainLookupByName</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainLookupByUUID</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainLookupByUUIDString</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Enumeration</b> [virConnectList..., virConnectNumOf...]
<p>Used to enumerate a set of object available to an given
hypervisor connection such as:</p>
<ul>
<li><code class='docref'>virConnectListDomains</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virConnectNumOfDomains</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virConnectListNetworks</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virConnectListStoragePools</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Description</b> [...GetInfo]
<p>Generic accessor providing a set of generic information about an
object, such as: </p>
<ul>
<li><code class='docref'>virNodeGetInfo</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainGetInfo</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virStoragePoolGetInfo</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virStorageVolGetInfo</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Accessors</b> [...Get..., ...Set...]
<p>Specific accessors used to query or modify data for the given object,
such as: </p>
<ul>
<li><code class='docref'>virConnectGetType</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainGetMaxMemory</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainSetMemory</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainGetVcpus</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virStoragePoolSetAutostart</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virNetworkGetBridgeName</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Creation</b> [...Create, ...CreateXML]
<p>Used to create and start objects. The ...CreateXML APIs will create
the object based on an XML description, while the ...Create APIs will
create the object based on existing object pointer, such as: </p>
<ul>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainCreate</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainCreateXML</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virNetworkCreate</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virNetworkCreateXML</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><b>Destruction</b> [...Destroy]
<p>Used to shutdown or deactivate and destroy objects, such as: </p>
<ul>
<li><code class='docref'>virDomainDestroy</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virNetworkDestroy</code></li>
<li><code class='docref'>virStoragePoolDestroy</code></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p> For more in-depth details of the storage related APIs see
<a href="storage.html">the storage management page</a>.