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World Wind is a collection of components that interactively display 3D geographic information within Java applications or applets.
/*
* Copyright (C) 2012 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the
* National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
* All Rights Reserved.
*/
package gov.nasa.worldwind.cache;
/**
* @author Tom Gaskins
* @version $Id: Cacheable.java 1171 2013-02-11 21:45:02Z dcollins $
*/
public interface Cacheable
{
// TODO: search for size queries that do not used this interface and change them to do so.
// currently (22 Nov 2006), only BasicElevationModel.addTileToCache(Tile, ShortBuffer) does not use Cacheable
/**
* Retrieves the approximate size of this object in bytes. Implementors are encouraged to calculate the exact size
* for smaller objects, but use approximate values for objects that include such large components that the
* approximation would produce an error so small that the extra computation would be wasteful.
*
* @return this Cacheable object's size in bytes
*/
long getSizeInBytes();
}