[infinispan-dev] wildcard in cache names

[Mircea Markus]

On Sep 28, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:

>
>
> On 09/28/2009 10:24 AM, Mircea Markus wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While looking into a migration script for coherence I saw that they
>> allow wildcard as cache names. E.g.
>>
>> <cache-mapping>
>> <cache-name>*</cache-name>
>> <scheme-name>default-replicated</scheme-name>
>> </cache-mapping>
>> <cache-mapping>
>> <cache-name>VirtualCache</cache-name>
>> <scheme-name>default-distributed</scheme-name>
>> </cache-mapping>
>>
>>
>>
>> So when the code asks for any cache name, they will return the
>> corresponding mapping:
>> e.g.
>>
>>
>> CacheFactory.getCache("SomeCache") would return the "default- 
>> replicated"
>> cache, and CacheFactory.getCache("VirtualCache") would return the
>> default-distributed cache.
>
> Hmmm, that seems to work exactly like out default and named caches do.
> The default being the * one and the named cache the VirtualCache. Now,
> the thing that would be different is if they allow things like:
>
>  <cache-mapping>
>    <cache-name>Replicated*</cache-name>
>    <scheme-name>default-replicated</scheme-name>
>  </cache-mapping>
>
> And so, CacheFactory.getCache("Replicated1") and
> CacheFactory.getCache("Replicated2") would return "default- 
> replicated".
this is the kind of behavior I wanted to describe - thanks for the  
better suited example!
So, does anyone see benefits in having this feature?
>
>> Anyone working with coherence and found this feature useful? I'd  
>> love to
>> see some use cases for this :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mircea
>>
>>
>>
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> Galder Zamarreño
> Sr. Software Engineer
> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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