app/soc/cache/home.py
author Lennard de Rijk <ljvderijk@gmail.com>
Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:53:52 +0000
changeset 1421 7602d41f0ed8
parent 1419 5d0f80ad7b9f
child 1600 0aa3de1b2acc
permissions -rw-r--r--
Made some changes to StudentProposal. Abstract is now required and content field has been added. New is now the default status. This will be used to easily distinguish between applications that didn't have their initial ranking/scoring yet. Patch by: Lennard de Rijk Reviewed by: to-be-reviewed

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""Module contains sidebar memcaching functions.
"""

__authors__ = [
    '"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
  ]


import logging

from google.appengine.api import memcache
from google.appengine.api import users

import soc.cache.base


def key(entity):
  """Returns the memcache key for the user's sidebar.
  """

  return 'homepage_for_%s_%s' % (entity.kind(), entity.key().name())


def get(self, *args, **kwargs):
  """Retrieves the sidebar for the specified user from the memcache.
  """

  # only cache the page for non-logged-in users
  # TODO: figure out how to cache everything but the sidebar
  if users.get_current_user():
    return (None, None)

  entity = self._logic.getFromKeyFields(kwargs)

  # if we can't retrieve the entity, leave it to the actual method
  if not entity:
    return (None, None)

  memcache_key = key(entity)
  logging.info("Retrieving %s" % memcache_key)
  return memcache.get(memcache_key), memcache_key

def put(result, memcache_key, *args, **kwargs):
  """Sets the sidebar for the specified user in the memcache.

  Args:
    sidebar: the sidebar to be cached
  """

  # no sense in storing anything if we won't query it later on
  if users.get_current_user():
    return

  # Store sidebar for just ten minutes to force a refresh every so often
  retention = 10*60

  logging.info("Setting %s" % memcache_key)
  memcache.add(memcache_key, result, retention)


def flush(entity):
  """Removes the sidebar for the current user from the memcache.

  Also calls soc.cache.rights.flush for the specified user.

  Args:
    id: defaults to the current account if not set
  """

  memcache_key = key(entity)
  logging.info("Flushing %s" % memcache_key)
  memcache.delete(memcache_key)


# define the cache function
cache = soc.cache.base.getCacher(get, put)