FilesCache

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFilesCache, DefaultFilesCache, LRUFilesCache, NullFilesCache, SoftRefFilesCache, WeakRefFilesCache
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public interface FilesCache
```
The fileCache interface

Version:

$Revision: 480428 $ $Date: 2006-11-29 07:15:24 +0100 (Wed, 29 Nov 2006) $

Author:

Mario Ivankovits

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`clear(FileSystem filesystem)`	purge the entries corresponding to the filesystem
`void`	`close()`	purge the whole cache
`FileObject`	`getFile(FileSystem filesystem, FileName name)`	retrieve a file from the cache by its name
`void`	`putFile(FileObject file)`	add a fileobject to the cache
`void`	`removeFile(FileSystem filesystem, FileName name)`	removes a file from cache

- Method Detail
  - putFile
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void putFile(FileObject file)
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    add a fileobject to the cache
    
    Parameters:
    
    file - the file
  - getFile
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FileObject getFile(FileSystem filesystem,
                   FileName name)
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    retrieve a file from the cache by its name
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - the name
    
    Returns:
    
    the fileobject or null if file is not cached
  - clear
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void clear(FileSystem filesystem)
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    purge the entries corresponding to the filesystem
  - close
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void close()
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    purge the whole cache
  - removeFile
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void removeFile(FileSystem filesystem,
                FileName name)
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    removes a file from cache
    
    Parameters:
    
    filesystem - filesystem
    
    name - filename