Interface BasicCacheContainer

All Superinterfaces:

Lifecycle

All Known Subinterfaces:

CacheContainer, EmbeddedCacheManager, RemoteCacheContainer

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDelegatingEmbeddedCacheManager, DefaultCacheManager, InternalCacheManager, RemoteCacheManager

public interface BasicCacheContainer
extends Lifecycle

BasicCacheContainer defines the methods used to obtain a BasicCache.

Since:

4.0

Author:

Manik Surtani (manik@jboss.org), Galder Zamarreño, Mircea.Markus@jboss.com

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
<K,V> BasicCache<K,V>	getCache()	Retrieves the default cache associated with this cache container.
<K,V> BasicCache<K,V>	getCache(String cacheName)	Retrieves a cache by name.
Set<String>	getCacheNames()	This method returns a collection of all cache names.

Methods inherited from interface org.infinispan.commons.api.Lifecycle

start, stop

Method Details

getCache

<K,V> BasicCache<K,V> getCache()

Retrieves the default cache associated with this cache container.

Returns:

the default cache.

Throws:

CacheConfigurationException - if a default cache does not exist.

getCache

<K,V> BasicCache<K,V> getCache(String cacheName)

Retrieves a cache by name. If the cache has been previously created with the same name, the running cache instance is returned. Otherwise, this method attempts to create the cache first.

Parameters:

cacheName - name of cache to retrieve

Returns:

a cache instance identified by cacheName

getCacheNames

Set<String> getCacheNames()

This method returns a collection of all cache names. The configurations may have been defined via XML, in the programmatic configuration, or at runtime. Internal-only caches are not included.

Returns:

an immutable set of cache names registered in this cache manager.