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package org.hibernate.cache.spi.access;

import org.hibernate.cache.spi.CollectionRegion;

Contract for managing transactional and concurrent access to cached collection data. For cached collection data, all modification actions actually just invalidate the entry(s). The call sequence here is: RegionAccessStrategy.lockItem -> RegionAccessStrategy.remove -> RegionAccessStrategy.unlockItem 
 There is another usage pattern that is used to invalidate entries after performing "bulk" HQL/SQL operations: RegionAccessStrategy.lockRegion -> RegionAccessStrategy.removeAll -> RegionAccessStrategy.unlockRegion 
Author:
Gavin King, Steve Ebersole/**
 * Contract for managing transactional and concurrent access to cached collection
 * data.  For cached collection data, all modification actions actually just
 * invalidate the entry(s).  The call sequence here is:
 * {@link #lockItem} -> {@link #remove} -> {@link #unlockItem}
 * <p/>
 * There is another usage pattern that is used to invalidate entries
 * after performing "bulk" HQL/SQL operations:
 * {@link #lockRegion} -> {@link #removeAll} -> {@link #unlockRegion}
 *
 * @author Gavin King
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public interface CollectionRegionAccessStrategy extends RegionAccessStrategy {

	
Get the wrapped collection cache region
Returns:
The underlying region/**
	 * Get the wrapped collection cache region
	 *
	 * @return The underlying region
	 */
	public CollectionRegion getRegion();

}