Windows Server AppFabric Caching Distributed Blocking Service

Question

I have an extension method for the Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCache object found in the Windows Server AppFabric SDK that looks like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching;

namespace Caching
{
    public static class CacheExtensions
    {
        private static Dictionary<string, object> locks = new Dictionary<string, object>();

        public static T Fetch<T>(this DataCache @this, string key, Func<T> func)
        {
            return @this.Fetch(key, func, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30));
        }

        public static T Fetch<T>(this DataCache @this, string key, Func<T> func, TimeSpan timeout)
        {
            var result = @this.Get(key);

            if (result == null)
            {
                lock (GetLock(key))
                {
                    result = @this.Get(key);

                    if (result == null)
                    {
                        result = func();

                        if (result != null)
                        {
                            @this.Put(key, result, timeout);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            return (T)result;
        }

        private static object GetLock(string key)
        {
            object @lock = null;

            if (!locks.TryGetValue(key, out @lock))
            {
                lock (locks)
                {
                    if (!locks.TryGetValue(key, out @lock))
                    {
                        @lock = new object();
                        locks.Add(key, @lock);
                    }
                }
            }

            return @lock;
        }
    }
}

The goal is for the developer to write code that says: “Bring me some data by trying the cache first. If it is not available in the cache, perform the specified function, put the results in the cache for the next caller, then return the Results.” Like this:

var data = dataCache.Fetch("key", () => SomeLongRunningOperation());

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Answer 1

AppFabric , GetAndLock/PutAndUnlock. , Get - , GetAndLock . , , , ( , ).

public static T Fetch<T>(this DataCache @this, string key, Func<T> func, TimeSpan timeout)
{
    var result = @this.Get(key);

    if (result == null)
    (
        DataCacheLockHandle handle;
        // We need a timespan to allow func time to run
        TimeSpan funcTimespan = New TimeSpan(0,1,0);

        try
        {
            // Lock the key
            // If something goes wrong here it will unlock at the end of funcTimespan
            var result = @this.GetAndLock(key, funcTimespan, handle);

            if (result == null)
            {
                // Still no value so go and run func
                result = func();

                @this.PutAndUnlock(key, result, handle, timeout);
            }
            else
            {
                // There a value now so we'll unlock the key and reset it timeout
                @this.Unlock(key, handle, timeout);
            }
        }
        catch (DataCacheException ex)
        {
            if (ex.ErrorCode == DataCacheErrorCode.ObjectLocked)
            {
                // Another process has locked the key so func must be running right now
                // We'll return null to the client
                result = null;
            }
        }

        if (result == null)
        {
            return null;
        }
        else
        {
            return (T)result;
        }
    )
}

Answer 2

:
AppFabric

AcquireLock() DataCache, :

DataCache cache = factory.GetCache("MyCache");
using (cache.AcquireLock("MyLock"))
{
    // Lock acquired, perform synchronized work here
}