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package com.orientechnologies.orient.core.cache;

import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.id.ORID;
import com.orientechnologies.orient.core.record.ORecord;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * Generic cache interface that should be implemented in order to plug-in custom cache. Also implementing class has to have public
 * one-arg constructor to set cache limit. For example, next class can be safely used as plug-in cache:
 * 
 *  *   public class CustomCache implements OCache {
 *     public CustomCache(int initialLimit) {
 *       // some actions to do basic initialization of cache instance
 *       ...
 *     }
 * 
 *     //implementation of interface
 *     ...
 *   }
 * 
 * 
 * As reference implementation used {@link com.orientechnologies.orient.core.cache.OUnboundedWeakCache}
 * 
 * @author Maxim Fedorov
 */
public interface OCache {
  /**
   * All operations running at cache initialization stage
   */
  void startup();

  /**
   * All operations running at cache destruction stage
   */
  void shutdown();

  /**
   * Look up for record in cache by it's identifier
   * 
   * @param id
   *          unique identifier of record
   * @return record stored in cache if any, otherwise - {@code null}
   */
  ORecord get(ORID id);

  /**
   * Push record to cache. Identifier of record used as access key
   * 
   * @param record
   *          record that should be cached
   * @return previous version of record
   */
  ORecord put(ORecord record);

  /**
   * Remove record with specified identifier
   * 
   * @param id
   *          unique identifier of record
   * @return record stored in cache if any, otherwise - {@code null}
   */
  ORecord remove(ORID id);

  /**
   * Remove all records from cache
   */
  void clear();

  /**
   * Total number of stored records
   * 
   * @return non-negative number
   */
  int size();


  /**
   * Keys of all stored in cache records
   * 
   * @return keys of records
   */
  Collection keys();
}