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package com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.impl.invalidation;

import com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.NearCacheRecord;

/**
 * Used to detect staleness of Near Cache data.
 *
 * During {@link com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.NearCache#get(Object)}, if one or more invalidations are lost for a key,
 * we will make near cached data unreachable with the help of {@link StaleReadDetector} and next {@code get()} from the
 * Near Cache will return {@code null} to force fresh data fetching from underlying IMap/ICache.
 *
 * @see com.hazelcast.internal.nearcache.impl.store.AbstractNearCacheRecordStore#get
 */
public interface StaleReadDetector {

    /**
     * This instance will be used when Near Cache invalidations are disabled.
     * It behaves as if there is no stale data and everything is fresh.
     */
    StaleReadDetector ALWAYS_FRESH = new StaleReadDetector() {
        @Override
        public boolean isStaleRead(Object key, NearCacheRecord record) {
            return false;
        }

        @Override
        public MetaDataContainer getMetaDataContainer(Object key) {
            return null;
        }
    };

    /**
     * @param key    the key
     * @param record the Near Cache record
     * @return {@code true} if reading with the supplied invalidation metadata is stale,
     * otherwise returns {@code false}
     */
    boolean isStaleRead(Object key, NearCacheRecord record);

    /**
     * @param key supplied key to get value
     * @return {@link MetaDataContainer} for this key
     */
    MetaDataContainer getMetaDataContainer(Object key);
}