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alfresco-community-repo/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/caching/ContentCache.java
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package org.alfresco.repo.content.caching;
import java.io.File;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentReader;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentWriter;
/**
* A cache designed to operate on content and split between memory and disk.
* The binary content data itself is stored on disk but the references to
* those files are stored in memory.
*
* @author Matt Ward
*/
public interface ContentCache
{
/**
* Returns the location where cache files will be written (cacheRoot) - implementation
* dependant and may be null.
*
* @return cacheRoot
*/
public File getCacheRoot();
/**
* Check to see if the content - specified by URL - exists in the cache.
* <p>
* Note that just because the in-memory cache has a record of the content item having been placed
* into the cache, it does not mean that the disk item is guaranteed to be there. The temp file
* clean-up process, for example, may have removed it.
* <p>
* @param contentUrl String
* @return true if the URL exists in the in-memory cache. It <em>may</em> therefore be cached on disk.
*/
boolean contains(String contentUrl);
/**
* Retrieve a ContentReader for the cached content specified by URL.
*
* @param contentUrl String
* @return ContentReader
* @throws org.alfresco.repo.content.caching.CacheMissException
* If the cache does not contain the specified content.
*/
ContentReader getReader(String contentUrl);
/**
* Put an item into cache - this will populate both a disk file (with content) and
* the in-memory lookup table (with the URL and cache file location).
*
* Empty content will NOT be cached - in which case false is returned.
*
* @param contentUrl String
* @param reader ContentReader
* @return true if the content was cached, false otherwise.
*/
boolean put(String contentUrl, ContentReader reader);
/**
* Remove a cached item from the in-memory lookup table. Implementation should not remove
* the actual cached content (file) - this should be left to the clean-up process or can
* be deleted with {@link #deleteFile(String)}.
*
* @param contentUrl String
*/
void remove(String contentUrl);
/**
* Deletes the cached content file for the specified URL. To remove the item from the
* lookup table also, use {@link #remove(String)} after calling this method.
*
* @param url String
*/
void deleteFile(String url);
/**
* Retrieve a ContentWriter to write content to a cache file. Upon closing the stream
* a listener will add the new content file to the in-memory lookup table.
*
* @param url url
* @return ContentWriter
*/
ContentWriter getWriter(String url);
}