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17 package org.apache.commons.vfs2;
18
19 /**
20 * The fileCache interface. Implementations of this interface are expected to be thread safe.
21 */
22 public interface FilesCache {
23
24 /**
25 * Purges the entries corresponding to the FileSystem.
26 *
27 * @param fileSystem The FileSystem.
28 */
29 void clear(FileSystem fileSystem);
30
31 /**
32 * Purges the whole cache.
33 */
34 void close();
35
36 /**
37 * Retrieves a FileObject from the cache by name.
38 *
39 * @param fileSystem The FileSystem.
40 * @param fileName the name
41 * @return the file object or null if file is not cached
42 */
43 FileObject getFile(FileSystem fileSystem, FileName fileName);
44
45 /**
46 * Adds a FileObject to the cache.
47 *
48 * @param file the file
49 */
50 void putFile(FileObject file);
51
52 /**
53 * Adds a FileObject to the cache if it isn't already present.
54 *
55 * @param file the file
56 * @return true if the file was stored, false otherwise.
57 */
58 boolean putFileIfAbsent(FileObject file);
59
60 /**
61 * Removes a file from cache.
62 *
63 * @param fileSystem file system
64 * @param name file name
65 */
66 void removeFile(FileSystem fileSystem, FileName name);
67
68 /*
69 If the cache uses timestamps it could use this method to handle updates of them.
70
71 @param file file name
72 */
73 // public void touchFile(final FileObject file);
74 }