= Configuring Media Types
Encode cache entries with different media types to store data in a format that best suits your requirements.

For example, the following procedure shows you how to configure the `application/x-protostream` media type.

.Procedure
. Create a {brandname} configuration file that adds a distributed cache named `qcache` and configures the media type, for example:
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[source,xml,options="nowrap",subs=attributes+]
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<infinispan>
   <cache-container>
      <distributed-cache name="qcache">
         <encoding>
            <key media-type="application/x-protostream"/>
            <value media-type="application/x-protostream"/>
         </encoding>
      </distributed-cache>
   </cache-container>
</infinispan>
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. Create `qcache` from `pcache.xml` with the `--file=` option.
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[source,options="nowrap",subs=attributes+]
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[//containers/default]> create cache --file=pcache.xml pcache
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. Verify `pcache`.
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[source,options="nowrap",subs=attributes+]
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[//containers/default]> ls caches
pcache
___protobuf_metadata
[//containers/default]> describe caches/pcache
{
  "distributed-cache" : {
    "mode" : "SYNC",
    "encoding" : {
      "key" : {
        "media-type" : "application/x-protostream"
      },
      "value" : {
        "media-type" : "application/x-protostream"
      }
    },
    "transaction" : {
      "mode" : "NONE"
    }
  }
}
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. Add an entry to `pcache` and check the encoding.
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[source,options="nowrap",subs=attributes+]
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[//containers/default]> put --cache=pcache good morning
[//containers/default]> cd caches/pcache
[//containers/default/caches/pcache]> get good
{
  "_type" : "string",
  "_value" : "morning"
}
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