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package com.hazelcast.internal.eviction;
/**
* Interface for store implementations that holds {@link Evictable} entries to evict.
*
* @param Type of the accessor (id) of the {@link com.hazelcast.internal.eviction.EvictionCandidate}
* @param Type of the {@link com.hazelcast.internal.eviction.Evictable} value of
* {@link com.hazelcast.internal.eviction.EvictionCandidate}
*/
public interface EvictableStore {
/**
* The evict method is called by the {@link EvictionStrategy} to eventually evict, by the policy, selected
* candidates from the internal data structures.
*
* @param evictionCandidates Multiple {@link EvictionCandidate} to be evicted
* @param evictionListener {@link EvictionListener} to listen evicted entries
*
* @return evicted entry count
*/
> int evict(Iterable evictionCandidates,
EvictionListener evictionListener);
}