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package org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.memoize;

/**
 * Represents a memoize cache with its essential methods
 * @param <K> type of the keys
 * @param <V> type of the values
 */
public interface MemoizeCache<K, V> {

    /**
     * Associates the specified value with the specified key in the cache.
     * @param key key with which the specified value is to be associated
     * @param value value to be associated with the specified key
     * @return null, or the old value if the key associated with the specified key.
     */
    V put(K key, V value);

    /**
     * Gets a value from the cache
     * @param key the key whose associated value is to be returned
     * @return the value, or null, if it does not exist.
     */
    V get(K key);

    /**
     * Try to get the value from cache.
     * If not found, create the value by {@link ValueProvider} and put it into the cache, at last return the value
     * @param key
     * @return the cached value
     */
    V getAndPut(K key, ValueProvider<? super K, ? extends V> valueProvider);


    /**
     * Invoked when some of the held SoftReferences have been evicted by the garbage collector and so should be removed from the cache.
     * The implementation must ensure that concurrent invocations of all methods on the cache may occur from other threads
     * and thus should protect any shared resources.
     */
    void cleanUpNullReferences();

    /**
     * Represents a provider used to create value
     * @param <K> type of the key
     * @param <V> type of the value
     */
    interface ValueProvider<K, V> {
        /**
         * Provide the created value
         */
        V provide(K key);
    }
}
