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package org.apache.shiro.cache;
/**
* A CacheManager provides and maintains the lifecycles of {@link Cache Cache} instances.
*
* <p>Shiro doesn't implement a full Cache mechanism itself, since that is outside the core competency of a
* Security framework. Instead, this interface provides an abstraction (wrapper) API on top of an underlying
* cache framework's main Manager component (e.g. JCache, Ehcache, JCS, OSCache, JBossCache, TerraCotta, Coherence,
* GigaSpaces, etc, etc), allowing a Shiro user to configure any cache mechanism they choose.
*
* @since 0.9
*/
public interface CacheManager {
/**
* Acquires the cache with the specified <code>name</code>. If a cache does not yet exist with that name, a new one
* will be created with that name and returned.
*
* @param name the name of the cache to acquire.
* @return the Cache with the given name
* @throws CacheException if there is an error acquiring the Cache instance.
*/
public <K, V> Cache<K, V> getCache(String name) throws CacheException;
}