interface CacheContextInterface in Drupal 8

Provides an interface for defining a cache context service.

Hierarchy

• interface \Drupal\Core\Cache\Context\CacheContextInterface

8 files declare their use of CacheContextInterface

BookNavigationCacheContext.php in core/modules/book/src/Cache/BookNavigationCacheContext.php

CacheContextsManagerTest.php in core/tests/Drupal/Tests/Core/Cache/Context/CacheContextsManagerTest.php

Contains \Drupal\Tests\Core\Cache\Context\CacheContextsManagerTest.

ConfigOverrideIntegrationTestCacheContext.php in core/modules/config/tests/config_override_integration_test/src/Cache/ConfigOverrideIntegrationTestCacheContext.php

EntityTestViewGrantsCacheContext.php in core/modules/system/tests/modules/entity_test/src/Cache/EntityTestViewGrantsCacheContext.php

PirateDayCacheContext.php in core/modules/config/tests/config_override_test/src/Cache/PirateDayCacheContext.php

... See full list

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Cache/Context/CacheContextInterface.php, line 8

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Cache\Context

interface CacheContextInterface {

  /**
   * Returns the label of the cache context.
   *
   * @return string
   *   The label of the cache context.
   */
  public static function getLabel();

  /**
   * Returns the string representation of the cache context.
   *
   * A cache context service's name is used as a token (placeholder) cache key,
   * and is then replaced with the string returned by this method.
   *
   * @return string
   *   The string representation of the cache context.
   */
  public function getContext();

  /**
   * Gets the cacheability metadata for the context.
   *
   * There are three valid cases for the returned CacheableMetadata object:
   * - An empty object means this can be optimized away safely.
   * - A max-age of 0 means that this context can never be optimized away. It
   *   will never bubble up and cache tags will not be used.
   * - Any non-zero max-age and cache tags will bubble up into the cache item
   *   if this is optimized away to allow for invalidation if the context
   *   value changes.
   *
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheableMetadata
   *   A cacheable metadata object.
   */
  public function getCacheableMetadata();

}

Members

Name	Modifiers	Type	Description	Overrides
CacheContextInterface::getCacheableMetadata	public	function	Gets the cacheability metadata for the context.	23
CacheContextInterface::getContext	public	function	Returns the string representation of the cache context.	23
CacheContextInterface::getLabel	public static	function	Returns the label of the cache context.	23