appengine/datastorecache/handler.go

// Copyright 2016 The LUCI Authors.
//
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package datastorecache

import (
	"context"
	"time"

	"go.chromium.org/luci/common/errors"
)

// ErrDeleteCacheEntry is a sentinel error value that, if returned from a
// Handler's Refresh function, indicates that the cache key that is being
// refreshed is not necessary and should be deleted.
var ErrDeleteCacheEntry = errors.New("delete this cache entry")

// Handler is a cache handler for a specific type of data. It is used at cache
// runtime to make decisions on how to populate and manage cache entries.
type Handler interface {
	// RefreshInterval is the amount of time that can expire before data becomes
	// candidate for refresh.
	//
	// This depends on the freshness of the data, and should be chosen by the
	// implementation. The only hard requirement is that this is less than the
	// PruneInterval. If this is <= 0, cached entities will never be refreshed.
	RefreshInterval(key []byte) time.Duration

	// Refresh is a callback function to refresh a given cache entity.
	//
	// This function must be concurrency-safe.
	//
	// The entity is described by key, which is the byte key for this entity. v
	// holds the current cache value for the entry; if there is no current cached
	// value, it will be a zero-value struct.
	//
	// If the ErrDeleteCacheEntry sentinel error is returned, the entity will be
	// deleted. If an error is returned, it will be propagated verbatim to the
	// caller. Otherwise, the return value will be used to update the cache
	// entity.
	Refresh(c context.Context, key []byte, v Value) (Value, error)

	// Locker returns the Locker instance to use.
	//
	// The Locker is optional, and serves to prevent multiple independent cache
	// calls for the same data from each independently refreshing that data. If
	// Locker returns nil, no such locking will be performed.
	Locker(c context.Context) Locker
}