[TYPO3-core] RFC #9505: Make the caches in TYPO3 use the new caching framework

[Martin Kutschker]

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] schrieb:
> Ingo Renner wrote: on 08.10.2008 12:32:
> 
>>> On 08.10.2008, at 11:01, Ingo Renner wrote:
>>>> an interface without methods doesn't make a lot of sense to me...
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker_interface_pattern
>> ok, thanks for the hint. Nevertheless it doesn't make sense in this
>> situation. We can only test for an interface after we have an instance,
>> but we want to know this before instantiation in this case
> 
> Not needed, because we always need at least one instance, even for
> singletons. So:
> 
> 1) singleton for the class already there? return it right away
> 2) no singleton there?
>   a) make instance
>   b) check if interface is implemented
>   c) if it is a singleton implementation, store it away "somewhere"
> (static var, for example), which will be found on next hit in step 1).
>

This is what Robert suggested and is implememted in patch #9520

Masi