IQueryCache.cs

using System;
using System.Collections;
using Iesi.Collections;
using NHibernate.Engine;
using NHibernate.Type;

namespace NHibernate.Cache
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Defines the contract for caches capable of storing query results.  These
	/// caches should only concern themselves with storing the matching result ids.
	/// The transactional semantics are necessarily less strict than the semantics
	/// of an item cache.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IQueryCache
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		void Clear();
	
		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="key"></param>
		/// <param name="returnTypes"></param>
		/// <param name="result"></param>
		/// <param name="session"></param>
		void Put( QueryKey key, IType[] returnTypes, IList result, ISessionImplementor session );

		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="key"></param>
		/// <param name="returnTypes"></param>
		/// <param name="spaces"></param>
		/// <param name="session"></param>
		/// <returns></returns>
		IList Get( QueryKey key, IType[] returnTypes, ISet spaces, ISessionImplementor session );

		/// <summary>
		/// 
		/// </summary>
		void Destroy();
	}
}