Configuring the key-value store

What’s this?

The key-value has several use cases:

• Pass parameters between apps in a reload chain
• Share state or other data between app reloads
• Share state between extensions, mashups or other web apps.
• Store data with a time-to-live property. Can be used to create timeouts in app reload chains.,

How it works

The data in the key-value store is not persisted to disk, which means that key-value data will be lost if Butler is restarted.
This behaviour could possibly be changed if there is a need, please open a GitHub ticket if key-value persistence is of interest.

Key-value data is manipulated using Butler’s REST API.

The Reference docs section has more information about the key-value store.

Settings in config file

---
Butler:
  ...
  ...
  # Key-value store
  keyValueStore:
    enable: false                                     # Should Butler's key-value store be enabled?
    maxKeysPerNamespace: 1000                         # Max keys that can be stored per namespace. Defaults to 1000 if not specified in this file.
  ...
  ...