Caching middleware for the iris web framework

This middleware automatically caches the computed response (per route) for the given duration. A store can be defined which handles the storing and retrieving of cached data. The route is not executed when the response is cached as the result is returned immediately by the middleware.

Stores:

• implemented:
  • In-memory
  • Redis
• planned:
  • Flatfile

Usage

// cache the data in-memory
inMemoryStore := cache.NewInMemoryStore()

// middleware configuration
cacheConfig := cache.CacheConfig{
    // automatically remove the cached data after the given cache time duration.
    // if AutoRemove is to false, the cached data will be removed/refreshed up on the first route
    // call after the cache time duration expired.
    AutoRemove:        false,
    // the expire time of the cached data
    CacheTimeDuration: time.Duration(5) * time.Minute,
    // defines the content type which will be cached
    ContentType:       cache.ContentTypeJSON, // cache json responses
    // (!) important: must be set to true if iris' gzip is enabled
    IrisGzipEnabled:   false,
    // you can supply your own cache key generator by implementing `cache.CacheKeySupplier`
    CacheKeyFunc: cache.RequestPathToMD5 // default if non supplied
}

// as global middleware (iris.Handler), caching every response with a JSON content type
iris.Use(cache.NewCache(cacheConfig, inMemoryStore))

// OR

// as iris.HandlerFunc for specific routes
iris.Get("/json", cache.NewCacheHF(cacheConfig, inMemoryStore), func(c *iris.Context) {
    someStructWithJSONTags := something()
    c.JSON(http.StatusOK, someStructWithJSONTags) // gets cached automatically
})

// the cache key which will be used can be obtained from the current iris.Context
cacheKey := ctx.Get(cache.CtxIrisCacheKey).(string)

// the cached data can be invalidated by using the obtained cache key
cache.Invalidate(cacheKey)

Licence

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Luca Moser

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