NullEvictionPolicy
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Key: JBCACHE-1215
URL:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBCACHE-1215
Project: JBoss Cache
Issue Type: Feature Request
Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
Reporter: Brian Stansberry
Assigned To: Brian Stansberry
Priority: Minor
An eviction policy that allows returns 'true' to EvictionPolicy.canIgnoreEvent().
Other methods are no-ops or equivalent defaults.
Use case is situations where there are multiple eviction regions in a cache, some of which
should never evict anything. You could use an LRUPolicy with maxAge=0, maxNodes=0 to
accomplish a similar thing, but then you incur wasted overhead of generating, queuing up
and processing node events. NullEvictionPolicy just bypasses everything.
Some usages:
Hibernate timestamp caching. The timestamp region should never be evicted.
HttpSession caching with FIELD. I'll probably need to use JBC eviction for the
JBossInternal_ area to passivate pojos. But passivating the sessions themselves should
not be managed by JBC. So I could use NullEvictionPolicy for the session storage area.
Could also be inserted as a global default if JBC detects that the _default_ region
wasn't configured while a subregion was.
I coded this up one night a while ago and forgot about it. Could be added to 2.1.0.GA if
not too late; otherwise later.
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