[jboss-user] [JBossCache] - Re: how to support custom CacheLoader callbacks to register

[wcooper]

Do you really think it is kludgy?

The problem arises out of the fact that my cache loader impl is calling an external service that returns more data than I wish to store in a single node.  

I can put it in terms of the Student/ Course sample that comes with jboss-cache. ( The node names are overly simplified to make the point easier. ) :)

Assume I have an object node bound to a fqn called  /teacher/Jones/ and that 'get' results in a cache miss that triggers a call to my custom cache loader.  What should I do if my custom loader call returns 'extra' data.  Let's say it returns a set of students in addition to the teacher object.  

JBC works fine if I plan on stuffing the 'extra' data into the node's Map, but what if I want to bind that data? That would be reasonable in this case.  I could see creating nodes for '/student/Brown' , '/student/Jones', etc...

In my case, I am calling existing legacy services that happen to return this extra data in this fashion. I would think this could happen often in practice.

/thanks

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