Opened 16 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#11299 closed (fixed)
Pluggable cache key algorithm
Reported by: | Ludovico Magnocavallo | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Core (Cache system) | Version: | 1.0 |
Severity: | Keywords: | ||
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
There are certain situations when you need to preserve path details in the generated cache keys, for example when using a hyerarchical cache that lets you expire whole branches of a site. The current way in which cache keys are built by Django loses all path information as keys are opaques, and furthermore it's impossible for a user to override it, short of monkeypatching utils.cache.get_cache_key() and utils.cache._generate_cache_header_key().
It might be useful to add a config setting where the user can specify a couple of generic functions to use instead of the default ones. It will take little work, and make the cache engine much more extensible for advanced uses.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Design decision needed |
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comment:2 by , 14 years ago
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
Triage Stage: | Design decision needed → Accepted |
This appears to be have been added in #13795.