Region (Hibernate Javadocs)

All Known Subinterfaces:

DirectAccessRegion, DomainDataRegion, QueryResultsRegion, TimestampsRegion

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDomainDataRegion, AbstractRegion, DirectAccessRegionTemplate, DomainDataRegionImpl, DomainDataRegionTemplate, JCacheDomainDataRegionImpl, QueryResultsRegionTemplate, TimestampsRegionTemplate
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public interface Region
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Contract for a named cache "region". A logical region might not necessarily correlate to any specific concept in the underlying caching provider - it's just a thing that can be referenced by name later.
A region's name is "unqualified"; i.e. it is not prefixed by SessionFactoryOptions.getCacheRegionPrefix().
Region is the base contract defining some common characteristics regardless of the type of data intended to be stored within the region. The more specific subtypes are:
- DomainDataRegion for storing entity, collection and natural-id data and
- DirectAccessRegion for storing query result and timestamp data.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`clear()`	Clear all data cached in the region
`void`	`destroy()`	The "end state" contract of the region's lifecycle.
`String`	`getName()`	Retrieve the unqualified name of this region.
`RegionFactory`	`getRegionFactory()`	The RegionFactory that generated this Region

- Method Detail
  - getName
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String getName()
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    Retrieve the unqualified name of this region.
  - getRegionFactory
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RegionFactory getRegionFactory()
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    The RegionFactory that generated this Region
  - clear
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void clear()
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    Clear all data cached in the region
  - destroy
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void destroy()
      throws CacheException
```
    The "end state" contract of the region's lifecycle. Called during SessionFactory.close() to give the region a chance to cleanup.
    
    Throws:
    
    CacheException - Indicates problem shutting down