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1 | /* | |
2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one | |
3 | * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file | |
4 | * distributed with this work for additional information | |
5 | * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file | |
6 | * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the | |
7 | * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance | |
8 | * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
9 | * | |
10 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
11 | * | |
12 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, | |
13 | * software distributed under the License is distributed on an | |
14 | * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY | |
15 | * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the | |
16 | * specific language governing permissions and limitations | |
17 | * under the License. | |
18 | */ | |
19 | package org.apache.shiro.cache; | |
20 | ||
21 | import java.util.Collection; | |
22 | import java.util.Set; | |
23 | ||
24 | /** | |
25 | * A Cache efficiently stores temporary objects primarily to improve an application's performance. | |
26 | * | |
27 | * <p>Shiro doesn't implement a full Cache mechanism itself, since that is outside the core competency of a | |
28 | * Security framework. Instead, this interface provides an abstraction (wrapper) API on top of an underlying | |
29 | * cache framework's cache instance (e.g. JCache, Ehcache, JCS, OSCache, JBossCache, TerraCotta, Coherence, | |
30 | * GigaSpaces, etc, etc), allowing a Shiro user to configure any cache mechanism they choose. | |
31 | * | |
32 | * @since 0.2 | |
33 | */ | |
34 | public interface Cache<K, V> { | |
35 | ||
36 | /** | |
37 | * Returns the Cached value stored under the specified {@code key} or | |
38 | * {@code null} if there is no Cache entry for that {@code key}. | |
39 | * | |
40 | * @param key the key that the value was previous added with | |
41 | * @return the cached object or {@code null} if there is no entry for the specified {@code key} | |
42 | * @throws CacheException if there is a problem accessing the underlying cache system | |
43 | */ | |
44 | public V get(K key) throws CacheException; | |
45 | ||
46 | /** | |
47 | * Adds a Cache entry. | |
48 | * | |
49 | * @param key the key used to identify the object being stored. | |
50 | * @param value the value to be stored in the cache. | |
51 | * @return the previous value associated with the given {@code key} or {@code null} if there was previous value | |
52 | * @throws CacheException if there is a problem accessing the underlying cache system | |
53 | */ | |
54 | public V put(K key, V value) throws CacheException; | |
55 | ||
56 | /** | |
57 | * Remove the cache entry corresponding to the specified key. | |
58 | * | |
59 | * @param key the key of the entry to be removed. | |
60 | * @return the previous value associated with the given {@code key} or {@code null} if there was previous value | |
61 | * @throws CacheException if there is a problem accessing the underlying cache system | |
62 | */ | |
63 | public V remove(K key) throws CacheException; | |
64 | ||
65 | /** | |
66 | * Clear all entries from the cache. | |
67 | * | |
68 | * @throws CacheException if there is a problem accessing the underlying cache system | |
69 | */ | |
70 | public void clear() throws CacheException; | |
71 | ||
72 | /** | |
73 | * Returns the number of entries in the cache. | |
74 | * | |
75 | * @return the number of entries in the cache. | |
76 | */ | |
77 | public int size(); | |
78 | ||
79 | /** | |
80 | * Returns a view of all the keys for entries contained in this cache. | |
81 | * | |
82 | * @return a view of all the keys for entries contained in this cache. | |
83 | */ | |
84 | public Set<K> keys(); | |
85 | ||
86 | /** | |
87 | * Returns a view of all of the values contained in this cache. | |
88 | * | |
89 | * @return a view of all of the values contained in this cache. | |
90 | */ | |
91 | public Collection<V> values(); | |
92 | } |