[infinispan-dev] [ISPN-78] RFC: Finalizing API

[Manik Surtani]

On 19 May 2011, at 20:56, Olaf Bergner wrote:

>> 
>> Yes, some form of MetaData would need to be defined.  Or maybe we just need size.
>> 
>> int sizeOfEntry(K key)
> As of today LargeObjectMetadata already stores a large object's total 
> size. In the future it may well hold additional metadata as e.g. mime 
> type and possibly arbitrary user defined key-value-pairs. To keep the 
> API as stable as possible I rather opt for
> 
> Metadata largeObjectMetadata(K key)

getLargeObjectMetadata(K key)?

> 
> instead of dedicated methods for each conceivable metadatum.


+1
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