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+#include "userdb.h"
+
+DEFINE_LOGGER(logger, "Twitter Backend Database");
+
+UserDB::UserDB(std::string database): errMsg(0), rc(0), dbOpen(false) 
+{
+	rc = sqlite3_open(database.c_str(), &db);
+	if( rc ) {
+		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to open database" << database);
+		sqlite3_close(db);
+		exit(0);
+	}
+	
+	LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, "Checking if table users is present")	
+	if(exe(std::string("select * from users limit 1;")) != SQLITE_OK) {
+		exe("create table users (user text primarykey, key text, secret text);");
+		LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, "Created table users in the database");
+	}
+	dbOpen = true;
+}
+
+int UserDB::exe(std::string s_exe) 
+{
+	data.clear();
+
+	//LOG4CXX_INFO(logger, "Executing: " << s_exe)	
+	rc = sqlite3_get_table(db, s_exe.c_str(), &result, &nRow, &nCol, &errMsg);
+	if( rc == SQLITE_OK ) {	
+		int col = nCol; //Skip past the headers
+		for(int i = 0; i < nRow; ++i) {
+			std::vector<std::string> row;
+			for(int j = 0 ; j < nCol ; j++) row.push_back(result[col++]);
+			data.push_back(row);
+		}
+	} 
+	sqlite3_free_table(result);
+	return rc;
+}
+
+void UserDB::insert(UserData info)
+{
+	std::string q = "insert into users (user,key,secret) values ('" + info.user + "','" + info.accessTokenKey + "','" + info.accessTokenSecret + "');";
+	if(exe(q) !=  SQLITE_OK) {
+		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to insert into database!");
+		exit(0);	
+	}
+}
+
+void UserDB::fetch(std::string user, std::vector<std::string> &row)
+{
+	std::string q =  "select key,secret from users where user='" + user + "'";
+	if(exe(q) !=  SQLITE_OK) {
+		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to fetch data from database!");
+		exit(0);
+	}
+	row = data[0];
+}
+
+std::set<std::string> UserDB::getRegisteredUsers()
+{
+	std::string q = "select user from users";
+	if(exe(q) != SQLITE_OK) {
+		LOG4CXX_ERROR(logger, "Failed to registered users from database!");
+		exit(0);
+	}
+	
+	std::set<std::string> users;
+	for(int i=0 ; i<data.size() ; i++)
+		users.insert(data[i][0]);
+	return users;
+}
+
+UserDB::~UserDB()
+{
+	sqlite3_close(db);
+}