Defines a stub cache implementation to be used during installation.
The stub implementation is needed when database access is not yet available. Because Drupal's caching system never requires that cached data be present, these stub functions can short-circuit the process and sidestep the need for any persistent storage. Obviously, using this cache implementation during normal operations would have a negative impact on performance.
If there is a database cache, this backend will attempt to clear it whenever possible. The reason for doing this is that the database cache can accumulate data during installation due to any full bootstraps that may occur at the same time (for example, Ajax requests triggered by the installer). If we didn't try to clear it whenever one of the delete function are called, the data in the cache would become stale; for example, the installer sometimes calls variable_set(), which updates the {variable} table and then clears the cache to make sure that the next page request picks up the new value. Not actually clearing the cache here therefore leads old variables to be loaded on the first page requests after installation, which can cause subtle bugs, some of which would not be fixed unless the site administrator cleared the cache manually.
Expanded class hierarchy of InstallBackend
class InstallBackend extends DatabaseBackend {
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::get().
*/
public function get($cid, $allow_invalid = FALSE) {
return FALSE;
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::getMultiple().
*/
public function getMultiple(&$cids, $allow_invalid = FALSE) {
return array();
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::set().
*/
public function set($cid, $data, $expire = CacheBackendInterface::CACHE_PERMANENT, array $tags = array()) {
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::delete().
*/
public function delete($cid) {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::delete($cid);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::deleteMultiple().
*/
public function deleteMultiple(array $cids) {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::deleteMultiple($cids);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::deleteAll().
*/
public function deleteAll() {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::deleteAll();
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::deleteExpired().
*/
public function deleteExpired() {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::deleteExpired();
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::deleteTags().
*/
public function deleteTags(array $tags) {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::deleteTags($tags);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::invalidate().
*/
public function invalidate($cid) {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::invalidate($cid);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::invalidateMultiple().
*/
public function invalidateMultiple(array $cids) {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::invalidateMultiple($cids);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::invalidateTags().
*/
public function invalidateTags(array $tags) {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::invalidateTags($tags);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Implements Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface::invalidateAll().
*/
public function invalidateAll() {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::invalidateAll($tags);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::garbageCollection().
*/
public function garbageCollection() {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
parent::garbageCollection();
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
}
/**
* Overrides Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend::isEmpty().
*/
public function isEmpty() {
try {
if (class_exists('Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Database')) {
return parent::isEmpty();
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
}
return TRUE;
}
}