open(host, store, type)

Finds the storage module configured for store on host, loads it if needed and calls the storage provider instances :open() method with the store and type arguments.

initialize_host(host)

Does initialization of a VirtualHost (or Component). Called during startup.

load_driver(host, driver_name)

Returns an instance of storage driver provided by mod_storage_ + driver_name on host. Loads the storage module if needed.

get_driver(host, store)

Returns the storage driver for store on host and the name of the storage module providing the driver.

purge(user, host)

Finds every storage module and calls :purge(user) on them. Used by usermanager when deleting an user.

olddm

For compatibility reasons, the util.datamanager module is patched with methods that goes through storagemanager, since this was how data storage was used before.

storagemanager.olddm is an unaltered instance of util.datamanager.