app/django/core/cache/backends/base.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:17:11 +0000
changeset 202 b8b4a83788d4
parent 54 03e267d67478
child 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
A key_name controller module to collect all of the name...() functions that compose Model entity key names, plus some minor changes to other controller modules to illustrate the proposed use. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/804 Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/804

"Base Cache class."

from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured

class InvalidCacheBackendError(ImproperlyConfigured):
    pass

class BaseCache(object):
    def __init__(self, params):
        timeout = params.get('timeout', 300)
        try:
            timeout = int(timeout)
        except (ValueError, TypeError):
            timeout = 300
        self.default_timeout = timeout

    def add(self, key, value, timeout=None):
        """
        Set a value in the cache if the key does not already exist. If
        timeout is given, that timeout will be used for the key; otherwise
        the default cache timeout will be used.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def get(self, key, default=None):
        """
        Fetch a given key from the cache. If the key does not exist, return
        default, which itself defaults to None.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def set(self, key, value, timeout=None):
        """
        Set a value in the cache. If timeout is given, that timeout will be
        used for the key; otherwise the default cache timeout will be used.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def delete(self, key):
        """
        Delete a key from the cache, failing silently.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def get_many(self, keys):
        """
        Fetch a bunch of keys from the cache. For certain backends (memcached,
        pgsql) this can be *much* faster when fetching multiple values.

        Returns a dict mapping each key in keys to its value. If the given
        key is missing, it will be missing from the response dict.
        """
        d = {}
        for k in keys:
            val = self.get(k)
            if val is not None:
                d[k] = val
        return d

    def has_key(self, key):
        """
        Returns True if the key is in the cache and has not expired.
        """
        return self.get(key) is not None

    __contains__ = has_key