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ICacheHelper Interface Reference

Interface for all classes implementing CacheHelper functionality. More...

Inheritance diagram for ICacheHelper:

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

 getCachedValue ($computeFunction, $args=array(), $key=null)
 Get a cached value if available or compute it if not and then cache it if possible.
 saveCache ()
 Saves the HTML to the cache in case it got recomputed.
 setCacheEnabled ($cacheEnabled)
 Sets if the cache should be enabled or not.
 setExpiry ($cacheExpiry)
 Sets the time to live for the cache, in seconds or a unix timestamp indicating the point of expiry...
 startCache ($cacheExpiry=null, $cacheEnabled=null)
 Initializes the caching.

Detailed Description

Interface for all classes implementing CacheHelper functionality.

Since:
1.20

Definition at line 30 of file CacheHelper.php.


Member Function Documentation

ICacheHelper::getCachedValue ( computeFunction,
args = array(),
key = null 
)

Get a cached value if available or compute it if not and then cache it if possible.

The provided $computeFunction is only called when the computation needs to happen and should return a result value. $args are arguments that will be passed to the compute function when called.

Since:
1.20
Parameters:
{function}$computeFunction
array | mixed$args
string | null$key
Returns:
mixed

Implemented in CacheHelper, SpecialCachedPage, and CachedAction.

Saves the HTML to the cache in case it got recomputed.

Should be called after the last time anything is added via addCachedHTML.

Since:
1.20

Implemented in CacheHelper, SpecialCachedPage, and CachedAction.

ICacheHelper::setCacheEnabled ( cacheEnabled)

Sets if the cache should be enabled or not.

Since:
1.20
Parameters:
boolean$cacheEnabled

Implemented in CacheHelper, SpecialCachedPage, and CachedAction.

ICacheHelper::setExpiry ( cacheExpiry)

Sets the time to live for the cache, in seconds or a unix timestamp indicating the point of expiry...

Since:
1.20
Parameters:
integer$cacheExpiry

Implemented in CacheHelper, SpecialCachedPage, and CachedAction.

ICacheHelper::startCache ( cacheExpiry = null,
cacheEnabled = null 
)

Initializes the caching.

Should be called before the first time anything is added via addCachedHTML.

Since:
1.20
Parameters:
integer | null$cacheExpirySets the cache expiry, either ttl in seconds or unix timestamp.
boolean | null$cacheEnabledSets if the cache should be enabled or not.

Implemented in CacheHelper, SpecialCachedPage, and CachedAction.


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