CacheManager (Spring Framework 4.3.30.RELEASE API)

All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractCacheManager, AbstractTransactionSupportingCacheManager, CaffeineCacheManager, CompositeCacheManager, ConcurrentMapCacheManager, EhCacheCacheManager, GuavaCacheManager, JCacheCacheManager, NoOpCacheManager, SimpleCacheManager, TransactionAwareCacheManagerProxy
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public interface CacheManager
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Spring's central cache manager SPI.
Allows for retrieving named Cache regions.
Since:
3.1
Author:
Costin Leau, Sam Brannen

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Cache`	`getCache(String name)`	Get the cache associated with the given name.
`Collection<String>`	`getCacheNames()`	Get a collection of the cache names known by this manager.

- Method Detail
  - getCache
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Cache getCache(String name)
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    Get the cache associated with the given name.
    Note that the cache may be lazily created at runtime if the native provider supports it.
    Parameters:
    name - the cache identifier (must not be null)
    Returns:
    the associated cache, or null if such a cache does not exist or could be not created
  - getCacheNames
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Collection<String> getCacheNames()
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    Get a collection of the cache names known by this manager.
    Returns:
    the names of all caches known by the cache manager