Hoist cache.modify method declaration to ApolloCache. #6362
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Background: #6350 (comment)
The
cache.modify
method and its related types are fairlyInMemoryCache
-specific, which is why it felt safest to confinecache.modify
toInMemoryCache
when I brought it back in #6350. In practice, however, that confinement just makescache.modify
harder to use (annoyingly, not helpfully) in cases where anApolloCache
is all that's available.You could also argue that
cache.modify
has roughly the same standing (in terms ofInMemoryCache
-specificity) ascache.identify
orcache.gc
, which are also part of the "Optional API" of theApolloCache
base class. In that sense,cache.modify
is simply joining those other AC3 APIs as part ofApolloCache
(and thus alsoInMemoryCache
).