Re: [infinispan-dev] Entry grouping feature

On 3 Dec 2009, at 10:42, Galder Zamarreno wrote: > > > On 12/03/2009 11:38 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote: >> >> >> On 12/01/2009 06:48 PM, Mindaugas Žakšauskas wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I am in process of reviewing Infinispan as, among other things, a >>> replacement of OSCache library we currently use. So far, it looks very >>> promising project - well done, guys! >>> >>> Anyway, one of the features we heavily rely on seems to be missing. >>> The feature is called "grouping", allowing to "bind" multiple >>> components and possibly flush them even without knowing of their keys. >>> E.g.: >>> >>> Cache cache = ....; >>> cache.put("key1", "value1", "groupX"); >>> cache.put("key2", "value2", "groupX"); >>> cache.flushGroup("groupX"); // this would evict both key1 and key2 >>> as they belong to groupX >>> >>> For more details, you can have a look at [1]. >>> >>> I've looked at the Infinispan's roadmap/JIRA, but couldn't find a >>> single trace of this feature mentioned anywhere. > > Note also that I don't think you're the only one wanting to do this. > Brian Stansberry, AS Clustering lead, wants something similar so that an > http session that is stored into Infinispan can be treated as a group > bearing in mind that a session contains a several k,v pairs. For different reasons. Brian's using AtomicMaps to gain "coarse locking and fine replication" characteristics of the AtomicMap - not the "group-flushing" effect.

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