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 */package org.apach3.http.impl.client.cache.memcached;

import org.apach3.http.client.cache.HttpCacheStorage;

/**
 * Since the {@link HttpCacheStorage} interface expects to use variant-annotated
 * URLs for its storage keys, but Memcached has a maximum key size, we need to
 * support mapping storage keys to cache keys. Clients can implement this
 * interface to change the way the mapping is done (for example, to add a prefix
 * to all cache keys to provide a form of memcached namespacing).
 */
public interface KeyHashingScheme {

    /** Maps a storage key to a cache key. The storage key is what
     * the higher-level HTTP cache uses as a key; the cache key is what
     * we use as a key for talking to memcached.
     * @param storageKey what the higher-level HTTP cache wants to use
     *   as its key for looking up cache entries
     * @return a cache key suitable for use with memcached
     */
    public String hash(String storageKey);
}