FilesCache

All Known Implementing Classes:: AbstractFilesCache, DefaultFilesCache, LRUFilesCache, NullFilesCache, SoftRefFilesCache, WeakRefFilesCache

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

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