DummyCache.php

<?php
/**
 * @link http://www.yiiframework.com/
 * @copyright Copyright (c) 2008 Yii Software LLC
 * @license http://www.yiiframework.com/license/
 */

namespace yii\caching;

/**
 * DummyCache is a placeholder cache component.
 *
 * DummyCache does not cache anything. It is provided so that one can always configure
 * a 'cache' application component and save the check of existence of `\Yii::$app->cache`.
 * By replacing DummyCache with some other cache component, one can quickly switch from
 * non-caching mode to caching mode.
 *
 * @author Qiang Xue <qiang.xue@gmail.com>
 * @since 2.0
 */
class DummyCache extends Cache
{
	/**
	 * Retrieves a value from cache with a specified key.
	 * This is the implementation of the method declared in the parent class.
	 * @param string $key a unique key identifying the cached value
	 * @return string the value stored in cache, false if the value is not in the cache or expired.
	 */
	protected function getValue($key)
	{
		return false;
	}

	/**
	 * Stores a value identified by a key in cache.
	 * This is the implementation of the method declared in the parent class.
	 *
	 * @param string $key the key identifying the value to be cached
	 * @param string $value the value to be cached
	 * @param integer $expire the number of seconds in which the cached value will expire. 0 means never expire.
	 * @return boolean true if the value is successfully stored into cache, false otherwise
	 */
	protected function setValue($key, $value, $expire)
	{
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Stores a value identified by a key into cache if the cache does not contain this key.
	 * This is the implementation of the method declared in the parent class.
	 * @param string $key the key identifying the value to be cached
	 * @param string $value the value to be cached
	 * @param integer $expire the number of seconds in which the cached value will expire. 0 means never expire.
	 * @return boolean true if the value is successfully stored into cache, false otherwise
	 */
	protected function addValue($key, $value, $expire)
	{
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Deletes a value with the specified key from cache
	 * This is the implementation of the method declared in the parent class.
	 * @param string $key the key of the value to be deleted
	 * @return boolean if no error happens during deletion
	 */
	protected function deleteValue($key)
	{
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Deletes all values from cache.
	 * This is the implementation of the method declared in the parent class.
	 * @return boolean whether the flush operation was successful.
	 */
	protected function flushValues()
	{
		return true;
	}
}