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package org.apache.http.impl.client.cache.memcached;

import org.apache.http.client.cache.HttpCacheEntry;

/**
 * Creates {@link MemcachedCacheEntry} instances that can be used for
 * serializing and deserializing {@link HttpCacheEntry} instances for
 * storage in memcached.
 */
public interface MemcachedCacheEntryFactory {

    /**
     * Creates a new {@link MemcachedCacheEntry} for storing the
     * given {@link HttpCacheEntry} under the given storage key. Since
     * we are hashing storage keys into cache keys to accommodate
     * limitations in memcached's key space, it is possible to have
     * cache collisions. Therefore, we store the storage key along
     * with the <code>HttpCacheEntry</code> so it can be compared
     * on retrieval and thus detect collisions.
     * @param storageKey storage key under which the entry will
     *   be logically stored
     * @param entry the cache entry to store
     * @return a {@link MemcachedCacheEntry} ready to provide
     *   a serialized representation
     */
    MemcachedCacheEntry getMemcachedCacheEntry(String storageKey, HttpCacheEntry entry);

    /**
     * Creates an "unset" {@link MemcachedCacheEntry} ready to accept
     * a serialized representation via {@link MemcachedCacheEntry#set(byte[])}
     * and deserialize it into a storage key and a {@link HttpCacheEntry}.
     * @return <code>MemcachedCacheEntry</code>
     */
    MemcachedCacheEntry getUnsetCacheEntry();

}
