Removing an Entry

The Region::remove function removes the entry with specified key and provides a user-defined parameter object to any CacheWriter or CacheListener invoked in the process.

The remove call not only removes the value, but also the key and entry from this region. The remove operation is propagated to the server to which the client is connected. If the destroy operation fails due to an exception on the server (for example, a CacheServerException or security exception), then the local entry is still removed.

The remove operation updates CacheStatistics::getLastAccessedTime and CacheStatistics::getLastModifiedTime for this region and the entry.

The remove function returns true if the entry (key, value) has been removed or false if the entry (key, value) has not been removed.

Bulk Remove Operations Using removeAll

You can use the Region::removeAll function to remove all entries from the region for a collection of specified keys. The effect of this call is equivalent to that of calling destroy on this region once for each key in the specified collection. If an entry does not exist, then that key is skipped. Note that an EntryNotFoundException is not thrown.

The removeAll function also supports providing a callback argument to any cache loaders or cache writers that are invoked in the operation.