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1 | /* | |
2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one | |
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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 | /** | |
22 | * A CacheManager provides and maintains the lifecycles of {@link Cache Cache} instances. | |
23 | * | |
24 | * <p>Shiro doesn't implement a full Cache mechanism itself, since that is outside the core competency of a | |
25 | * Security framework. Instead, this interface provides an abstraction (wrapper) API on top of an underlying | |
26 | * cache framework's main Manager component (e.g. JCache, Ehcache, JCS, OSCache, JBossCache, TerraCotta, Coherence, | |
27 | * GigaSpaces, etc, etc), allowing a Shiro user to configure any cache mechanism they choose. | |
28 | * | |
29 | * @since 0.9 | |
30 | */ | |
31 | public interface CacheManager { | |
32 | ||
33 | /** | |
34 | * Acquires the cache with the specified <code>name</code>. If a cache does not yet exist with that name, a new one | |
35 | * will be created with that name and returned. | |
36 | * | |
37 | * @param name the name of the cache to acquire. | |
38 | * @return the Cache with the given name | |
39 | * @throws CacheException if there is an error acquiring the Cache instance. | |
40 | */ | |
41 | public <K, V> Cache<K, V> getCache(String name) throws CacheException; | |
42 | } |