com.webmethods.portal.service.cache

Interface ICacheEntry

public interface ICacheEntry

Title: Description: Copyright: Copyright (c) 2000 Company: This is the in-memory representation of a cached object. This is the object actual placed in memory. Note that calling the set methods may change the in-memory cached values, but it will NOT get persisted to the DB, unless a subsequent PUT is called. However it's not recommended to use the set methods directory except from cache implementations.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getCacheId()
long	getExpiration()
boolean	getIsValid() gets whether thing is valid
ICacheKey	getKey()
long	getModified()
Object	getValue()
boolean	isExpired(long currentTime) is the object expired given current time
void	setCacheId(int cacheID) sets cache id
void	setExpiration(long expiration) sets expiration
void	setIsValid(boolean isValid)
void	setModified(long modifiedDate) sets modified date
void	setValue(Object value) sets value

Method Detail

getKey

ICacheKey getKey()

Returns:

ICacheKey

getValue

Object getValue()

Returns:

Object

setValue

void setValue(Object value)

sets value

getModified

long getModified()

Returns:

last modified date

setModified

void setModified(long modifiedDate)

sets modified date

getExpiration

long getExpiration()

Returns:

expiration date, 0 if not expirable

setExpiration

void setExpiration(long expiration)

sets expiration

Parameters:

expiration - 0 means not expirable

getIsValid

boolean getIsValid()

gets whether thing is valid

setIsValid

void setIsValid(boolean isValid)

Parameters:

isValid - true means valid

isExpired

boolean isExpired(long currentTime)

is the object expired given current time

Returns:

true if expired

getCacheId

int getCacheId()

Returns:

id of cache in DB.

setCacheId

void setCacheId(int cacheID)

sets cache id