+class SharedObject;
+
+/**
+ * Base class for unified cache exposing enough methods to SharedObject
+ * instances to allow their addRef() and removeRef() methods to
+ * update cache metrics. No other part of ICU, except for SharedObject,
+ * should directly call the methods of this base class.
+ */
+class U_COMMON_API UnifiedCacheBase : public UObject {
+public:
+ UnifiedCacheBase() { }
+
+ /**
+ * Notify the cache implementation that an object was seen transitioning to
+ * zero hard references. The cache may use this to keep track the number of
+ * unreferenced SharedObjects, and to trigger evictions.
+ */
+ virtual void handleUnreferencedObject() const = 0;
+
+ virtual ~UnifiedCacheBase();
+private:
+ UnifiedCacheBase(const UnifiedCacheBase &);
+ UnifiedCacheBase &operator=(const UnifiedCacheBase &);
+};
+