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1// Copyright (c) 2022-present The Bitcoin Core developers
2// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
3// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
4
5#ifndef BITCOIN_NODE_DATABASE_ARGS_H
6#define BITCOIN_NODE_DATABASE_ARGS_H
7
8class ArgsManager;
9struct DBOptions;
10
11namespace node {
12void ReadDatabaseArgs(const ArgsManager& args, DBOptions& options);
13} // namespace node
14
15#endif // BITCOIN_NODE_DATABASE_ARGS_H
16

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A shared adapter for database configuration

ReadDatabaseArgs connects parsed application arguments to the DBOptions structure.

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Expose a narrow configuration boundary

The forward declarations keep the header lightweight. Passing options by reference allows the implementation to change selected fields while retaining other defaults. This is not a database query API, a migration runner or a method for reading transaction history.

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