commons-jcs-core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs/admin/JCSJMXBean.java

package org.apache.commons.jcs.admin;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

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import javax.management.MXBean;

/**
 * A MXBean to expose the JCS statistics to JMX
 */
@MXBean
public interface JCSJMXBean
{
    /**
     * Builds up info about each element in a region.
     * <p>
     * @param cacheName
     * @return List of CacheElementInfo objects
     * @throws IOException
     */
    List<CacheElementInfo> buildElementInfo( String cacheName ) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Builds up data on every region.
     * <p>
     * TODO we need a most light weight method that does not count bytes. The byte counting can
     *       really swamp a server.
     * @return List of CacheRegionInfo objects
     */
    List<CacheRegionInfo> buildCacheInfo();

    /**
     * Tries to estimate how much data is in a region. This is expensive. If there are any non serializable objects in
     * the region or an error occurs, suppresses exceptions and returns 0.
     * <p>
     *
     * @return long The size of the region in bytes.
     */
    long getByteCount(String cacheName);

    /**
     * Clears all regions in the cache.
     * <p>
     * If this class is running within a remote cache server, clears all regions via the <code>RemoteCacheServer</code>
     * API, so that removes will be broadcast to client machines. Otherwise clears all regions in the cache directly via
     * the usual cache API.
     */
    void clearAllRegions() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Clears a particular cache region.
     * <p>
     * If this class is running within a remote cache server, clears the region via the <code>RemoteCacheServer</code>
     * API, so that removes will be broadcast to client machines. Otherwise clears the region directly via the usual
     * cache API.
     */
    void clearRegion(String cacheName) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Removes a particular item from a particular region.
     * <p>
     * If this class is running within a remote cache server, removes the item via the <code>RemoteCacheServer</code>
     * API, so that removes will be broadcast to client machines. Otherwise clears the region directly via the usual
     * cache API.
     *
     * @param cacheName
     * @param key
     *
     * @throws IOException
     */
    void removeItem(String cacheName, String key) throws IOException;
}