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* Specification available from http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
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package javax.persistence;
/**
* Interface used to interact with the second-level cache.
* If a cache is not in use, the methods of this interface have
* no effect, except for <code>contains</code>, which returns false.
*
* @since Java Persistence 2.0
*/
public interface Cache {
/**
* Whether the cache contains data for the given entity.
* @param cls entity class
* @param primaryKey primary key
* @return boolean indicating whether the entity is in the cache
*/
public boolean contains(Class cls, Object primaryKey);
/**
* Remove the data for the given entity from the cache.
* @param cls entity class
* @param primaryKey primary key
*/
public void evict(Class cls, Object primaryKey);
/**
* Remove the data for entities of the specified class (and its
* subclasses) from the cache.
* @param cls entity class
*/
public void evict(Class cls);
/**
* Clear the cache.
*/
public void evictAll();
}