PS: I just had a look, and I doubt there's any chance of a race condition
here... there's only two usages of hasKey(). One is thread local, and the
other uses a read/write lock scope.
That said, I think your point about performance is perfectly warranted, and
quite simple to solve. For example:
if (cache.hasKey(key)) {
return (List) cache.getObject(key);
}...
Becomes:
Object value = cache.getObject(key)
if (value != null) {
return Cache.isNull(value) ? null : value;
}...
Where Cache.isNull(value) simply checks if value == Cache.NULL_OBJECT. Of
course you could just do that outside too, but I think having a method like
this makes it nicer to read.
Do you want to add a Jira ticket for this?
Clinton
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Clinton Begin <clinton.be...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Good points.
>
> I think the only reason hasKey exists is to support cached null values.
> But that said, I believe in iBATIS 2 I used a NULL_OBJECT value to represent
> the difference between "yes I'm cached, and I'm null" vs. "I'm not cached".
>
> So I think there definitely is something to look at here.
>
> Clinton
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Simone Tripodi
> <simone.trip...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all guys,
>> since I've been integrating 3rd part caching solutions[1] in iBatis3,
>> I started thinking about the use of method in the Cache interface:
>>
>> org.apache.ibatis.cache.Cache#hasKey()
>>
>> Honestly, I'm a little scared about the use for a key check, as it may
>> expire between checking for the key, and whatever you want to do with
>> the stored object, and produce a race condition :(
>> I'd propose to remove this method, and let to the layer built on top
>> of cache interface checking if the retrieved object is not null.
>>
>> Indeed, some distribuited and scalable caching servers like
>> memcached[2] don't provide methods to key checking, because of the
>> reason above. Moreover, in this scenario, the only way I have to check
>> if a key is present in the cache, is getting the object, and checking
>> it is null. But let's suppose I've a cached Object of 10M size,
>> checking first and then getting if present, causes 20M net traffic :(
>>
>> Please don't get me wrong, I don't want to criticize the excellent
>> work you've been doing - I don't use different persistence layer than
>> iBatis! - but since iBatis is largely used in production environments,
>> I would encourage the community to be sensible to this kind of
>> potential issues.
>>
>> What do you think about it? Have a nice end of the year party and see
>> you next year! :D
>> Best regards,
>> Simone Tripodi
>>
>> [1] http://ibaguice.googlecode.com/svn/site/1.0-SNAPSHOT/caching.html
>> [2] http://memcached.org/
>>
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