org.apache.oro.util
Class GenericCache

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.apache.oro.util.GenericCache

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cache, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

CacheFIFO, CacheFIFO2, CacheLRU, CacheRandom

public abstract class GenericCache

extends java.lang.Object

implements Cache, java.io.Serializable

This is the base class for all cache implementations provided in the org.apache.oro.util package. To derive a subclass from GenericCache only the ... methods need be overridden. Although 4 subclasses of GenericCache are provided with this package, users may not derive subclasses from this class. Rather, users should create their own implmentations of the Cache interface.

Since:

1.0

Version:

2.0.4

Author:

Daniel F. Savarese

See Also:

Cache, CacheLRU, CacheFIFO, CacheFIFO2, CacheRandom, Serialized Form

Field Summary

static int

DEFAULT_CAPACITY The default capacity to be used by the GenericCache subclasses provided with this package.

Method Summary

abstract void	addElement(java.lang.Object key, java.lang.Object value)
int	capacity() Returns the maximum number of elements that can be cached at one time.
java.lang.Object	getElement(java.lang.Object key)
boolean	isFull()
java.util.Iterator	keys()
int	size() Returns the number of elements in the cache, not to be confused with the capacity() which returns the number of elements that can be held in the cache at one time.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

DEFAULT_CAPACITY

public static final int DEFAULT_CAPACITY

The default capacity to be used by the GenericCache subclasses provided with this package. Its value is 20.

Method Detail

addElement

public abstract void addElement(java.lang.Object key,
                                java.lang.Object value)

Specified by:

addElement in interface Cache

getElement

public java.lang.Object getElement(java.lang.Object key)

Specified by:

getElement in interface Cache

keys

public final java.util.Iterator keys()

size

public final int size()

Returns the number of elements in the cache, not to be confused with the capacity() which returns the number of elements that can be held in the cache at one time.

Specified by:

size in interface Cache

Returns:

The current size of the cache (i.e., the number of elements currently cached).

capacity

public final int capacity()

Returns the maximum number of elements that can be cached at one time.

Specified by:

capacity in interface Cache

Returns:

The maximum number of elements that can be cached at one time.

isFull

public final boolean isFull()