The backing store uses this same serialization scheme for encoding and decoding, informally called pickling, when storing data structures to disk. The IDL compiler, idl, writes the routine that encodes and decodes the data. This routine is passed to dce_db_open( ), remembered in the handle, and used by the following store and fetch routines:
· dce_db_fetch( )
· dce_db_fetch_by_name( )
· dce_db_fetch_by_uuid( )
· dce_db_header_fetch( )
· dce_db_store( )
· dce_db_store_by_name( )
· dce_db_store_by_uuid( )