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package com.gemstone.gemfire.cache;

/**
 * This is the contract that a custom-expiry element must honor.
 * It determines the expiration characteristics for a specific entry in a region.
 * Note that if you wish to refer to an implementation of this interface in XML,
 * the implementation must also implement the Declarable interface.
 * 
 * @author jpenney
 *
 */
public interface CustomExpiry extends CacheCallback {

  /**
   * Calculate the expiration for a given entry.
   * Returning null indicates that the
   * default for the region should be used.
   * 
   * The entry parameter should not be used after this method invocation completes.
   * @param entry the entry to calculate the expiration for
   * @return the expiration to be used, null if the region's defaults should be
   * used.
   */
  public ExpirationAttributes getExpiry(Region.Entry entry);
}