CacheService.java

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2013 The OSGL cache project
 * Gelin Luo <greenlaw110(at)gmail.com>
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package org.osgl.cache;

/**
 * Defines a cache service
 */
public interface CacheService {

    String DEF_CACHE_NAME = "osgl-cache";

    /**
     * Store an item into the cache service by key and set ttl value
     *
     * @param key the cache key
     * @param value the object to be cached
     * @param ttl   time to live of the cached item. Time unit is second.
     *              If set to negative number, then it will never expire.
     *              If set to zero then the default ttl value will be used
     */
    void put(String key, Object value, int ttl);

    /**
     * Store an item into the cache by key and use default ttl
     *
     * @param key the cache key
     * @param value the object to be cached
     */
    void put(String key, Object value);

    /**
     * Remove an item from the cache service by key
     * @param key the cache key
     */
    void evict(String key);

    /**
     * Return an item from the cache service by key
     *
     * @param key the cache key
     * @param <T> the generic type of the return value
     * @return the value associated with the key
     */
    <T> T get(String key);

    /**
     * Remove all cached items
     */
    void clear();

    /**
     * Set default ttl value which will be used if user pass 0 as ttl or not specified ttl
     * Note some service might not favor this method after the internal cache service
     * is initialized. E.g. memcached and ehcaches
     *
     * @param ttl the default ttl value in seconds
     */
    void setDefaultTTL(int ttl);

    /**
     * Shutdown the cache service
     */
    void shutdown();

    /**
     * Restart the cache service after shutdown
     *
     * <p>Note, by default the cache service
     * should be started after initialized</p>
     */
    void startup();

}