DEPRECATED: We refactored the caching of HTTP requests, added more backends and moved it into a separate module: flamingo.me/httpcache

Cache module

The Cache module provides an easy interface to cache things in flamingo.

The basic concept is, that there is a so called "cache frontend" - that offers an interface to cache certain types, and a "cache backend" that takes care about storing(persiting) the cache entry.

Caching HTTP responses from APIs

A typical use case is, to cache responses from (slow) backends that you need to call.

First define an injection to get a HTTPFrontend cache injected:

MyApiClient struct {
      Cache            *cache.HTTPFrontend                  `inject:"myservice"`
}

We use annotation to be able to individually configure the requested Cache. So our binding may look like:

injector.Bind((*cache.HTTPFrontend)(nil)).AnnotatedWith("myservice").In(dingo.Singleton)

Then when you request your API you can wrap the result in the cache and provide a cache loader function. The HTTPFrontend Cache then makes sure that: - If there is a cache hit - return it within the given "GraceTime" - and eventually do a new request if cache "LiveTime" is over. - Requests for the same key are done in "single flight" if cache is empty meaning that even if there may be 1000 parallel requests only the first one will be executed against the backend service and the other wait for the result

Example:

loadData :=  func(ctx context.Context) (*http.Response, *cache.Meta, error) {
    r, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req.WithContext(ctx))
    if err != nil {
        return nil, nil, err
    }
    //cache semantic errors for certain time to avoid recalling the same request
    if r.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
        return r, &cache.Meta{
            Lifetime:  5 * time.Minute,
            Gracetime: 300 * time.Second,
        }, nil
    }
    //cache semantic errors for certain time to avoid recalling the same request
    if r.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
        return r, &cache.Meta{
            Lifetime:  10 * time.Second,
            Gracetime: 30 * time.Second,
        }, nil
    }
    return r, nil, nil
}
response, err := apiclient.Cache.Get(requestContext, u.String(), loadData)

Cache backends

Currently there are the following backends available: * inMemoryCache (caches in memory - and therefore is a very fast cache) * fileBackend (caches in filesystem ) * nullBackend (caches nothing)