CacheItem

This class represents an item in the ICache object. It implements the IExpirable interface.

Properties

Creating New Instance

var expirationInMinutes = 180;
var item = new CacheItem("Key", "Value", expirationInMinutes);

Passing to the Cache

The ICache object is typically embedded in a repository. The following example manually adds an item to the cache of a PersonRepository.

var people = GetPeople();
var expirationInMinutes = 180;
var item = new CacheItem<IEnumerable<Person>>("CacheKey:ActivePeople", people, expirationInMinutes);

using (var repository = new PersonRepository())
{
    repository.Cache.Add(item);
}

The cache is set automatically when a cacheKey is passed to the Query or BatchQuery operations.

Retrieving from the Cache

Access the ICache object directly and call Get() with the key.

var item = repository.Cache.Get<IEnumerable<Person>>("CacheKey:ActivePeople");

If no cache entry exists for the given key, an exception is thrown by default. Set the throwException argument to false to suppress this.