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package org.hibernate.cache.spi;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.cache.CacheException;
import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor;
import org.hibernate.type.Type;
/**
* Defines the contract for caches capable of storing query results. These
* caches should only concern themselves with storing the matching result ids.
* The transactional semantics are necessarily less strict than the semantics
* of an item cache.
*
* @author Gavin King
*/
public interface QueryCache {
public void clear() throws CacheException;
public boolean put(QueryKey key, Type[] returnTypes, List result, boolean isNaturalKeyLookup, SessionImplementor session) throws HibernateException;
public List get(QueryKey key, Type[] returnTypes, boolean isNaturalKeyLookup, Set spaces, SessionImplementor session) throws HibernateException;
public void destroy();
public QueryResultsRegion getRegion();
}