com.sun.appserv.web.taglibs.cache
Class CacheUtil

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.appserv.web.taglibs.cache.CacheUtil

public class CacheUtil

extends java.lang.Object

CacheUtil has utility methods used by the cache tag library.

Constructor Summary

CacheUtil()

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	generateKey(java.lang.String key, PageContext pc) This function generates the key to the cache.
static com.sun.appserv.util.cache.Cache	getCache(PageContext pc, int scope) This is used to get the cache itself.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CacheUtil

public CacheUtil()

Method Detail

getCache

public static com.sun.appserv.util.cache.Cache getCache(PageContext pc,
                                                        int scope)

This is used to get the cache itself. The cache is stored as an attribute in the specified scope.

Returns:

the cache object

generateKey

public static java.lang.String generateKey(java.lang.String key,
                                           PageContext pc)

This function generates the key to the cache. It creates the key by suffixing the servlet path with either the user-specified key or by keeping a counter in the request attribute which it will increment each time so that multiple cache tags in a page each get a unique key.

Returns:

the generated key