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* The keys must have good
* Implementations will often return the value itself, provided that the value is both
* serializable and has a good equals
and hashCode implementations and
* must respect the case-sensitivity of the use-case.
*
* @author Derek Hulley
* @since 3.3
*/
public class EntityLookupCacheequals
and hashCode
.
*
* @param value the full value being keyed
* @return Returns the business key representing the entity
*/
VK1 getValueKey(V1 value);
/**
* Find an entity for a given key.
*
* @param key the key (ID) used to identify the entity
* @return Return the entity or null if no entity is exists for the ID
*/
Pairequals
and hashCode
* methods of the value object should respect case-sensitivity in the same way that this
* lookup treats case-sensitivity i.e. if the equals
method is case-sensitive
* then this method should look the entity up using a case-sensitive search. Where the
* behaviour is configurable,
*
* @param value the value (business object) used to identify the entity
* @return Return the entity or null if no entity matches the given value
*/
Pair