uk.co.mullsoft.jean.components
Interface Cacheable

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public interface Cacheable
extends java.io.Serializable

Author:

mike.curtis

Method Summary

Cacheable	get(java.io.Serializable selector) get a new object of this class.
byte[]	getData() return the persistent part as a byte[]
java.lang.String	getPath() return a path string to be used as a relative path to a file from the cache root directory, it must begin with a file separator character
java.io.Serializable	getSelector() return an identifying object
void	setData(byte[] data) set the persistent part

Method Detail

getPath

java.lang.String getPath()

return a path string to be used as a relative path to a file from the cache root directory, it must begin with a file separator character

Returns:

a relative path string beginning with a file separator character

getData

byte[] getData()

return the persistent part as a byte[]

Returns:

the persistent part as a byte[]

setData

void setData(byte[] data)

set the persistent part

Parameters:

data - the new data, this may be null when the selector part only is maintained in internal store.

getSelector

java.io.Serializable getSelector()

return an identifying object

Returns:

an identifying object

get

Cacheable get(java.io.Serializable selector)

get a new object of this class.

Parameters:

selector - sufficient details of the class to enable one to be selected or created