com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache

Interface Ticker

@ThreadSafe
public interface Ticker

A time source that returns a time value representing the number of nanoseconds elapsed since some fixed but arbitrary point in time.

Author:

ben.manes@gmail.com (Ben Manes)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Ticker	disabledTicker() Returns a ticker that always returns 0.
long	read() Returns the number of nanoseconds elapsed since this ticker's fixed point of reference.
static Ticker	systemTicker() Returns a ticker that reads the current time using System.nanoTime().

Method Detail

read

long read()

Returns the number of nanoseconds elapsed since this ticker's fixed point of reference.

Returns:

the number of nanoseconds elapsed since this ticker's fixed point of reference

systemTicker

@Nonnull
static Ticker systemTicker()

Returns a ticker that reads the current time using System.nanoTime().

Returns:

a ticker that reads the current time using System.nanoTime()

disabledTicker

@Nonnull
static Ticker disabledTicker()

Returns a ticker that always returns 0.

Returns:

a ticker that always returns 0