trunk/core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/vfs2/FilesCache.java

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package org.apache.commons.vfs2;


/**
 * The fileCache interface. Implementations of this interface are expected to be thread safe.
 */
public interface FilesCache
{
    /**
     * Adds a FileObject to the cache.
     *
     * @param file the file
     */
    void putFile(final FileObject file);

    /**
     * Adds a FileObject to the cache if it isn't already present.
     *
     * @param file the file
     * @return true if the file was stored, false otherwise.
     */
    boolean putFileIfAbsent(final FileObject file);

    /**
     * Retrieves a FileObject from the cache by name.
     *
     * @param filesystem The FileSystem.
     * @param name the name
     * @return the fileobject or null if file is not cached
     */
    FileObject getFile(final FileSystem filesystem, final FileName name);

    /**
     * Purges the entries corresponding to the FileSystem.
     *
     * @param fileSystem The FileSystem.
     */
    void clear(final FileSystem fileSystem);

    /**
     * Purges the whole cache.
     */
    void close();

    /**
     * Removes a file from cache.
     *
     * @param filesystem filesystem
     * @param name       filename
     */
    void removeFile(final FileSystem filesystem, final FileName name);

    /**
     * If the cache uses timestamps it could use this method to handle
     * updates of them.
     *
     * @param file filename
     */
    // public void touchFile(final FileObject file);
}