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 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
 *
 * Licensed under the Universal Permissive License v 1.0 as shown at
 * http://oss.oracle.com/licenses/upl.
 */

package com.tangosol.net.cache;


import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;


/**
* A JCache CacheLoader.
*
* @since Coherence 2.2
* @author cp 2003.05.29
*/
public interface CacheLoader
    {
    /**
    * Return the value associated with the specified key, or null if the
    * key does not have an associated value in the underlying store.
    *
    * @param key  key whose associated value is to be returned
    *
    * @return the value associated with the specified key, or
    *         null if no value is available for that key
    */
    public V load(K key);

    /**
    * Return the values associated with each the specified keys in the
    * passed collection. If a key does not have an associated value in
    * the underlying store, then the return map will not have an entry
    * for that key.
    *
    * @param colKeys  a collection of keys to load
    *
    * @return a Map of keys to associated values for the specified keys
    */
    public Map loadAll(Collection colKeys);
    }