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<h2 class="refsect1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#330099">@CacheIndex</font></h2>
<p>Use <code>@CacheIndex</code> to define a cached index. Cache indexes are used only when caching is enabled.</p>
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<p><strong><br /><span class="refsubsect">Annotation Elements</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="#BABFJHIC">Table 2-5</a> describes this annotation's elements.</p>
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<p><strong><em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Table 2-5 @CacheIndex Annotation Elements</font></em></strong></p>
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<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c1-t9"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Annotation Element</strong></font></th>
<th align="left" valign="bottom" id="r1c2-t9"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Description</strong></font></th>
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<p><code>columnNames</code></p>
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<p>(Optional) The set of columns on which to define the index. Not required when annotated on a field/method.</p>
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<p><code>updateable</code></p>
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<p>(Optional) Specify if the indexed field is updateable.</p>
<p>If <code>true</code>, the object will be re-indexed on each update or refresh.</p>
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<p>true</p>
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<p><strong><br /><span class="refsubsect">Usage</span></strong></p>
<p>A cache index allows <code>singleResult</code> queries to obtain a cache hit when querying on the indexed fields. A <code>resultList</code> query cannot obtain cache hits, as it is unknown if all of the objects are in memory, (unless the cache usage query hint is used).</p>
<p>The index should be unique. If it is not, the first indexed object will be returned.</p>
<p>You can use <code>@CacheIndex</code> on an Entity class or on an attribute. The column is defaulted when defined on a attribute.</p>
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<p><strong><br /><span class="refsubsect">Examples</span></strong></p>
<p><a href="#BABEECHH">Example 2-13</a> shows an example of using the <code>@CacheIndex</code> annotation.</p>
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<p><strong><em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Example 2-13 Using @CacheIndex Annotation</font></em></strong></p>
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@Entity
<strong>@CacheIndex(columnNames={"F_NAME", "L_NAME"}, updateable=true)</strong>
public class Employee {
@Id
private long id;
@CacheIndex
private String ssn;
@Column(name="F_NAME")
private String firstName;
@Column(name="L_NAME")
private String lastName;
}
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<p><a href="#BABIHBCC">Example 2-14</a> shows an example of using the <code>&lt;cache-index&gt;</code> XML element in the <code>eclipselink-orm.xml</code> file.</p>
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<p><strong><em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Example 2-14 Using &lt;cache-index&gt; XML</font></em></strong></p>
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&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;entity-mappings
xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/orm"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/persistence/orm http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/xsds/eclipselink_orm_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4"&gt;
&lt;entity name="Employee" class="org.acme.Employee" access="FIELD"&gt;
<strong>&lt;cache-index updateable="true"&gt;</strong>
&lt;column-name&gt;F_NAME&lt;/column-name&gt;
&lt;column-name&gt;L_NAME&lt;/column-name&gt;
<strong>&lt;/cache-index&gt;</strong>
&lt;attributes&gt;
&lt;id name="id"/&gt;
&lt;basic name="ssn"&gt;
&lt;cache-index/&gt;
&lt;/basic&gt;
&lt;basic name="firstName"&gt;
&lt;column name="F_NAME"/&gt;
&lt;/basic&gt;
&lt;basic name="lastName"&gt;
&lt;column name="L_NAME"/&gt;
&lt;/basic&gt;
&lt;/attributes&gt;
&lt;/entity&gt;
&lt;/entity-mappings&gt;
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<p><a href="#BABBIAGH">Example 2-15</a> shows an example query using a cache index.</p>
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<p><strong><em><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Example 2-15 Caching an Index Query</font></em></strong></p>
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Query query = em.createQuery("Select e from Employee e where e.firstName = :firstName and e.lastName = :lastName");
query.setParameter("firstName", "Bob");
query.setParameter("lastName", "Smith");
Employee employee = (Employee)query.getSingleResult();
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<p><strong><br /><span class="refsubsect">See Also</span></strong></p>
<p>For more information, see:</p>
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<li>
<p><a href="a_cache.htm#CHDBBIHE">"@Cache"</a></p>
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<p>"About Cache Indexes" in <em>Understanding EclipseLink</em></p>
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