Cache::Object(3pm)

✨ Cache::Object 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Cache::Object — it's the data stored in a Cache, fr fr. This is one of those Perl manpages from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, so pull up a chair 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Cache::Object — the data stored in a Cache. yes that's literally the whole name. iconic. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — Object gets used by the classes that implement the Cache interface, and it's basically an object oriented wrapper around the data. a little cozy lil jacket for your bytes, if you will 🧥✨

and here's the part where I have to be honest with you: end users will not normally use Object directly. like, that's not the vibe. instead you can get at it through the get_object method on the Cache::Cache interface. that's the door. use the door 🚪💖

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

here's how it looks when you're actually doing it, bestie:

use Cache::Object;

my $object = new Cache::Object( );

$object->set_key( $key );
$object->set_data( $data );
$object->set_expires_at( $expires_at );
$object->set_created_at( $created_at );

look at her go 😭✨ so clean, so demure.

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💅 METHODS 💅

• new( ) — construct a new Cache::Object. that's it, that's the method. baby's first object 🎀

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🌈 PROPERTIES 🌈

these all come in (get|set)_whatever flavor, so you can read 'em and write 'em. slay.

• (get|set)_accessed_at — the time at which the object was last accessed. so like, various cache implementations will use the accessed_at property to store info for LRU algorithms — you know, the "who gets yeeted first" math 👑. but there is no guarantee that all caches will update this field, so don't come for me if it's stale, bestie 🙈
• (get|set)_created_at — the time at which the object was created. its birthday 🎂✨
• (get|set)_data — a scalar containing, or a reference pointing to, the data to be stored. so it can be a plain scalar OR a ref, either one, no cap 💖
• (get|set)_expires_at — the time at which the object should expire from the cache. it's giving "your time is up" ⏰💀
• (get|set)_key — the key under which the object was stored. its little name tag 🏷️
• (get|set)_size — the size of the frozen version of this object. the frozen version specifically, okay? not the thawed one 🧊📏

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• Cache::Cache — go here, this is the main character 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Original author: DeWitt Clinton <dewitt@unto.net>
• Last author: $Author: dclinton $
• Copyright (C) 2001-2003 DeWitt Clinton

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 written by the perl crew, shipped as part of perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-30. mwah 💋 periodt. 💖✨🎀