Truxton event type save

This saves an event type object to the database. It will be stored in the [EventType] table.

Syntax

int truxton_event_type_save( uint64_t event_type_handle );

Parameters

event_type_handle

This handle comes from calling truxton_event_type_create().

Return value

A non-zero value on success, zero on failure.

Sample

void create_event_type( void )
{
   uint64_t truxton = truxton_create();

   uint64_t event_type = truxton_event_type_create( truxton );

   truxton_event_type_set_id( event_type, 21212 );
   truxton_event_type_set_name( event_type, "FBI Action" );

   if ( truxton_event_type_save( event_type ) == 0 )
   {
      printf("Cannot save event type to the database.\n");
   }
   else
   {
      char type_name[ 128 ];

      uint64_t new_id = truxton_event_type_get_id( event_type );

      truxton_event_type_get_name( event_type, type_name, sizeof( type_name ) ); 
      printf( "Created %s event type as id %" PRIu64 "\n", type_name, new_id );
   }

   truxton_event_type_destroy( event_type );
   truxton_destroy( truxton );
}

The PRIu64 in the sample code above is a standard way of formatting a 64-bit unsigned integer in C. Over the years, different compilers on different operating systems used different format specifiers for things, these PRI macros, along with some tricky string concatenation the compilers perform for you, allow you to maintain a single code base without a bunch of macro magic.