net.sf.ehcache.writer
Class AbstractCacheWriter

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.ehcache.writer.AbstractCacheWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

CacheWriter

public abstract class AbstractCacheWriter
extends Object
implements CacheWriter

A convenience abstract base class that implements all CacheWriter methods.

The write(net.sf.ehcache.Element), writeAll(java.util.Collection), delete(net.sf.ehcache.CacheEntry) and deleteAll(java.util.Collection) methods throw UnsupportedOperationException unless they're overridden by the class that is extending AbstractCacheWriter. Classes that are extending this abstract base class should make sure that the appropriate cache writer operation methods are implemented with their application functionalities.

Version:

$Id: AbstractCacheWriter.java 2154 2010-04-06 02:45:52Z cdennis $

Author:

Geert Bevin

Constructor Summary

AbstractCacheWriter()

Method Summary

CacheWriter	clone(Ehcache cache) Creates a clone of this writer.
void	delete(CacheEntry entry) Delete the cache entry from the store
void	deleteAll(Collection<CacheEntry> entries) Remove data and keys from the underlying store for the given collection of keys, if present.
void	dispose() Providers may be doing all sorts of exotic things and need to be able to clean up on dispose.
void	init() Notifies writer to initialise themselves.
void	write(Element element) Write the specified value under the specified key to the underlying store.
void	writeAll(Collection<Element> elements) Write the specified Elements to the underlying store.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AbstractCacheWriter

public AbstractCacheWriter()

Method Detail

write

public void write(Element element)
           throws CacheException

Write the specified value under the specified key to the underlying store. This method is intended to support both key/value creation and value update for a specific key.

Specified by:

write in interface CacheWriter

Parameters:

element - the element to be written

Throws:

CacheException

writeAll

public void writeAll(Collection<Element> elements)
              throws CacheException

Write the specified Elements to the underlying store. This method is intended to support both insert and update. If this operation fails (by throwing an exception) after a partial success, the convention is that entries which have been written successfully are to be removed from the specified mapEntries, indicating that the write operation for the entries left in the map has failed or has not been attempted.

Specified by:

writeAll in interface CacheWriter

Parameters:

elements - the Elements to be written

Throws:

CacheException

delete

public void delete(CacheEntry entry)
            throws CacheException

Delete the cache entry from the store

Specified by:

delete in interface CacheWriter

Parameters:

entry - the cache entry that is used for the delete operation

Throws:

CacheException

deleteAll

public void deleteAll(Collection<CacheEntry> entries)
               throws CacheException

Remove data and keys from the underlying store for the given collection of keys, if present. If this operation fails (by throwing an exception) after a partial success, the convention is that keys which have been erased successfully are to be removed from the specified keys, indicating that the erase operation for the keys left in the collection has failed or has not been attempted.

Specified by:

deleteAll in interface CacheWriter

Parameters:

entries - the entries that have been removed from the cache

Throws:

CacheException

clone

public CacheWriter clone(Ehcache cache)
                  throws CloneNotSupportedException

Creates a clone of this writer. This method will only be called by ehcache before a cache is initialized.

Implementations should throw CloneNotSupportedException if they do not support clone but that will stop them from being used with defaultCache.

Specified by:

clone in interface CacheWriter

Returns:

a clone

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException - if the extension could not be cloned.

init

public void init()

Notifies writer to initialise themselves.

This method is called during the Cache's initialise method after it has changed it's status to alive. Cache operations are legal in this method. If you register a cache writer manually after a cache has been initialised already, this method will be called on the cache writer as soon as it has been registered.

Note that if you reuse cache writer instances or create a factory that returns the same cache writer instance as a singleton, your init method should be able to handle that situation. Unless you perform this multiple usage of a cache writer yourself, Ehcache will not do this though. So in the majority of the use cases, you don't need to do anything special.

Specified by:

init in interface CacheWriter

dispose

public void dispose()
             throws CacheException

Providers may be doing all sorts of exotic things and need to be able to clean up on dispose.

Cache operations are illegal when this method is called. The cache itself is partly disposed when this method is called.

Specified by:

dispose in interface CacheWriter

Throws:

CacheException