Iterating/Grouping Cache Entries

[david-koch]

Hello,

from documentation "Using the Cache Api" I've lerned not to use the caches keySet() method in order to iterate over all cache entries.

In order to get all objects of a group of entries I've maintained an own set of keys. But this seems to me a bit error prone.

Is there any best practice to group entries other than mainain potentially big lists of keys refering to that objects?

If getting inconsistencies between the the key set and the real business objects - by having missed to add a key to the key set when creating an object - is the entry a zombie entry because I couln'd reach it anymore?

Thanks,

David

[galder.zamarreno]

You could group them using atomic maps, see http://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/5.1/apidocs/org/infinispan/atomic/AtomicMap.html

[david-koch]

This is great.

But once I lost a key due to an update/programming error I've created a zombie entry? Or is there a way to detect zombie objects where I lost reference too?

[galder.zamarreno]

Not that I'm aware of.