The cache service provides centralised management of in-memory data caching within the Confluence application. Depending on which edition of Confluence you are running, the cache service may be backed by:
Because of this, it is essential that you only code to the interfaces provided by Confluence, and do not rely on any of the concrete implementation classes.
The cacheManager bean in the Confluence Spring application context implements two interfaces: CacheFactory and CacheManager.
The only method on the manager you need to worry about (unless you are maintaining the caching system as a whole) is DOC:CacheFactory#getCache(java.lang.String name). This method will return a Cache.
To prevent cache name clashes, we suggest using the same reverse domain name syntax for naming caches as you would for Java class names or plugin keys. You can provide a "friendly name" for the cache management UI by providing an I18N key: cache.name.[DOC:cache name].
A small number of caches are configured to not be flushed by CacheManager.flushCaches(). These cache names are defined by the nonFlushableCaches bean in cacheServiceContext.xml. There is currently no plan to broaden this mechanism to allow plugin-specified caches to opt in to not being flushed.
The differences between the different editions of Confluence are:
confluence-cache-ehcache module.confluence-cache-hazelcast module.confluence-cache-coherence module.These modules are contained in the cache subdirectory of the main Confluence source tree.
Exactly one of these modules must in exist in the Confluence classpath. Having multiple modules, or no module in the Confluence classpath will cause the system not to run.
There are a couple of different places the caching subsystem hooks into the rest of Confluence.
During bootstrapping, Confluence will try to load /bootstrapCacheContext.xml into the Spring context. This file will be found in one of the cache implementation jars. This context file is responsible for providing an implementation of the ClusterManager, ClusterConfigurationHelper and HibernateCacheFactory.
You can tell which edition of Confluence you are running by calling ClusterManager#isClusterSupported. This will return true in clustered editions, false otherwise.
Hibernate is configured to use the ConfluenceCacheProvider as its cache provider. This provider delegates to the HibernateCacheFactory (as defined in the bootstrap context above) to instantiate the correct cache implementation depending on the Confluence edition being run.
During main application startup, Confluence will try to load /cacheProviderContext.xml into the Spring context. This file will also be found in one of the cache implementation jars and is responsible for instantiating the correct implementation of the CacheManager.
The user interface (and backing implementation) for viewing, flushing and adjusting the sizes of caches are implemented as plugins within each of the cache implementation jars.
ehcache.xml (or cache-settings-overrides.properties in Confluence 5.6 and later) We should ensure that there are no such warnings before releasing a new version of Confluence.Rate this page: