Caching - need your thoughts

[Kiran Subbaraman]

Hello group,
I have a standard web2py application, but within its modules directory, I have a bunch of code which run within the web2py context (and its scheduler), and also as scripts independent of web2py. It is just that this code resident within web2py's modules.
I wanted to use the web2py caching capability within some of these scripts, and soon realized that they are dependent on the web2py context. A couple of questions:

• So, I cannot use the cache module independent of web2py's running context. Is this a fair assumption? If not, any suggestions on how I can use this cache module will help.
• Less important question: Ended up searching for python based caches, and I came across Beaker, and Dogpile, among others. Before I decide on what to do about my cache requirement, I thought I'll reach out to the community to see if there are any viewpoints on either of these projects?

Thank you,

Kiran

[Richard Vézina]

About Cache, you may try to import gluon cache.py module and see if it can solve you requirement. 

Something like that :

from cache import CacheInRam, CacheOnDisk, Cache

You may need to include it in python path...

Richard

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[Richard Vézina]

https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/1e66fa3a93560aa5d32c27a6b1b7251e0dd8a428/gluon/cache.py

Here the test file about cache :

https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/1e66fa3a93560aa5d32c27a6b1b7251e0dd8a428/gluon/tests/test_cache.py

Richard

[Kiran Subbaraman]

Richard,
Thanks a lot for the pointers. The cache test code provided the information I needed.
I had tried to look for answers only in the group and docs.
Note to self: Look at the groups, docs, source and test codebase, before posting a question

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