Package org.biojava.nbio.structure.domain

Class SerializableCache<K,V>

java.lang.Object

org.biojava.nbio.structure.domain.SerializableCache<K,V>

Type Parameters:

K - The key type of the cache

V - the value type to be stored on the cache

public class SerializableCache<K,V>
extends Object

A class that provides all that is necessary to create a Serializable Cache

Since:

3.0.3

Author:

Andreas Prlic

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected String	cacheFileName
protected Map<K,V>	serializedCache

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
SerializableCache(String cacheFileName)	set cacheFileName to null to disable caching

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	cache(K name, V data)	This will not cache null values.
void	disableCache()
void	enableCache()
void	flushCache()
V	get(K name)
boolean	isCacheEnabled()
Map<K,V>	reloadFromFile()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

cacheFileName

protected String cacheFileName

serializedCache

protected Map<K,V> serializedCache

Constructor Details

SerializableCache

public SerializableCache(String cacheFileName)

set cacheFileName to null to disable caching

Parameters:

cacheFileName -

Method Details

isCacheEnabled

public boolean isCacheEnabled()

cache

public void cache(K name,
 V data)

This will not cache null values. Null means not cached yet. If you want to cache "no data exists" use e.g. empty collections to represent this.

Parameters:

name -

data -

get

public V get(K name)

disableCache

public void disableCache()

enableCache

public void enableCache()

reloadFromFile

public Map<K,V> reloadFromFile()

flushCache

public void flushCache()