wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Wikibase

<?php

namespace Wikibase\DataModel\Services\Entity;

use Wikibase\DataModel\Entity\EntityId;

/**
 * A service interface for prefetching entities or data about them in order
 * to make subsequent loading of them faster.
 *
 * @since 1.1
 *
 * @license GPL-2.0-or-later
 * @author Marius Hoch < hoo@online.de >
 */
interface EntityPrefetcher {

    /**
     * Prefetches data for a list of entity ids.
     *
     * @param EntityId[] $entityIds
     */
    public function prefetch( array $entityIds );

    /**
     * Purges prefetched data about a given entity.
     *
     * @param EntityId $entityId
     */
    public function purge( EntityId $entityId );

    /**
     * Purges all prefetched data.
     */
    public function purgeAll();

}