memcached counters missing in action

[Charlie Spurr]

Bummer...

So, if I understand what's been said so far, I have to call
getCounter prior to every decr call to see if the counter is
still in the cache. If it's not in the cache reload it using
storeCounter and then I can call the decr method.

Is that right?

_Charlie


On Mar 24, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Greg Whalin wrote:

> Nope, that won't work.  That will store a serialized Long(1000) object
> to the cache.  Calling incr() or decr() on it will reset it to 0
> (according to the api docs).
>
> Charlie Spurr wrote:
>> Greg,
>> Yes, I would like to set an expiration time on counters so
>> please add that to the queue for improvements for the Java
>> client.
>>
>> In the meantime, would this work...
>> Long balance = new Long(10000);
>> MemCachedClient = MemCachedClient();
>> client.set("Balance1", balance, expireDate);
>> client.decr("Balance1", 50);
>> client.getCounter("Balance1");
>>
>> or would I have to use (Long)client.get("Balance1");
>> instead of getCounter?
>>
>> _Charlie