Package javax.cache.processor

Interface MutableEntry<K,V>

Type Parameters:

K - the type of key

V - the type of value

All Superinterfaces:

Cache.Entry<K,V>

public interface MutableEntry<K,V>
extends Cache.Entry<K,V>

A mutable representation of a Cache.Entry.

Mutable entries are used by EntryProcessors to mutate Cache.Entrys in place, atomically.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Greg Luck

See Also:

EntryProcessor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	exists()	Checks for the existence of the entry in the cache
V	getValue()	Returns the value stored in the cache.
void	remove()	Removes the entry from the Cache.
void	setValue(V value)	Sets or replaces the value associated with the key.

Methods inherited from interface javax.cache.Cache.Entry

getKey, unwrap

Method Detail

exists

boolean exists()

Checks for the existence of the entry in the cache

Returns:

true if the entry exists

remove

void remove()

Removes the entry from the Cache.

This has the same semantics as calling Cache.remove(K).

getValue

V getValue()

Returns the value stored in the cache.

If the cache is configured to use read-through, and this method would return null because the entry is missing from the cache, the Cache's CacheLoader is called in an attempt to load the entry.

Specified by:

getValue in interface Cache.Entry<K,V>

Returns:

the value corresponding to this entry

setValue

void setValue(V value)

Sets or replaces the value associated with the key.

If exists() is false and setValue is called then a mapping is added to the cache visible once the EntryProcessor completes. Moreover a second invocation of exists() will return true.

Parameters:

value - the value to update the entry with

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the implementation supports and is configured to perform runtime-type-checking, and value type is incompatible with that which has been configured for the Cache