[xwiki-devs] New cache component

Hi devs, I'm working on a new cache component (http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2359) to replace the current cache service. For this I'm refactoring a little the API to improve extensibility. I will explain what I modified and I would like to have your point of views, suggestions and corrections on all this. First of all, how the current service works : You ask for cache service (which is more a factory than a service in fact) containing two major type of factory methods : - get a cache : create and return a new local or distributed (depends of the implementation) cache where you can put and retrieve object to cache with eventually a refresh period - get a local cache : force to get a cache store in the local computer All these methods return the same XWikiOSCache interface. I did not made lots of big modifications (as I want to be sure to correctly support all current service support), the main difference with the cache service (except the fact it now a factory component) is that I separate "normal" cache factory and "local" cache factory in two separate plexus roles. That way it could have different implementations configured in the xwiki.cfg like xwiki.cache.cachefactory.hint=memcache xwiki.cache.localcachefactory.hint=oscache And XWiki now contains getCacheFactory and getLocalCacheFactory methods in place of getCacheService. As a first example I moved the oscache cache service implementation as component : I attached a patch for it in http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-2359 Thanks, -- Thomas Mortagne