diff -r 57b4279d8c4e -r 03e267d67478 app/django/core/cache/backends/base.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/app/django/core/cache/backends/base.py	Fri Jul 18 18:22:23 2008 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+"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