org.omnifaces.util.cache

Interface CacheProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

CacheInstancePerScopeProvider, DefaultCacheProvider

public interface CacheProvider

A provider for a specific Cache implementation. Via this plug-in construct, the OmniFaces Cache component can make use of different kinds of cache implementations.

Since:

1.1

Author:

Arjan Tijms

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Cache	getCache(FacesContext context, String scope) Gets an instance of a Cache using the configured cache provider.
void	setParameters(Map<String,String> parameters) Passes parameters to the cache provider implementation.

Method Detail

getCache

Cache getCache(FacesContext context,
               String scope)

Gets an instance of a Cache using the configured cache provider.

Parameters:

context - faces context used for resolving the given scope.

scope - scope for which the cache should be obtained. Supported scopes are dependent on the specific caching provider, but generally at least "session" and "application" should be supported.

Returns:

Cache instance encapsulating the cache represented by this CacheProvider

setParameters

void setParameters(Map<String,String> parameters)

Passes parameters to the cache provider implementation. This is mainly intended for configuration of things like LRU and global TTL. Settings are mainly implementation specific.

Parameters:

parameters - map of parameters used to configure the cache.