Re: [infinispan-dev] Translating our events to JSR 107 events

> > If you're ok with changing the core, you could add a getValue() > method to CacheEntryCreatedEvent, and an isCreated() method to > CacheEntryModifiedEvent (as I suppose you don't want to call the > updates listener when an entry is created). Both changes should be > backwards-compatible. > That could work.

> > > > The second I have no idea how to implement as we do not have > > CacheEntryExpired event. True, spec is not rigorous that such an event > > has to be fired immediately after an entry has expired but eventually > > (which might be on access). Either way, I am all ears on > suggestions how > > to implement this one. > > > > I guess @CacheEntryEvicted/@CacheEntriesEvicted would be the closest > thing we have in Infinispan. But you can't check in the listener if > the entry was evicted because it expired or because there wasn't > enough space in the data container (yet). > There could definitely be something clever we could do here. Adding the (expired or evicted) entry to a queue for later notification. But that would definitely need to be something we explicitly enable rather than have running all the time, since it kinda defeats the purpose of evicting something to save memory only to have it put in a different queue elsewhere until an event is fired.