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A package for caching downloads of specially formatted files.

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USTDownloadCache

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About

The USTDownloadCache is used by the Ubuntu Security Team to improve the runtime of other packages by caching certain JSON files.

Using USTDownloadCache

Example:

import logging
from ust_download_cache import USTDownloadCache

logger = logging.getLogger("")
download_cache = USTDownloadCache(logger)

url = "URL_GOES_HERE"
contents = download_cache.get_from_url(url)

metadata = contents["metadata"] # used by USTDownloadCache
data = contents["data"]

Metadata

The USTDownloadCache relies on metadata contained within the file it is downloading/caching. The JSON must supply a "metadata" key, which provides a timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch) and time to live (ttl) in seconds. The cached version of the file is considered to be expired when timestamp + ttl > now

{
    "metadata": {
        "timestamp": 1591887905,
        "ttl": 3600,
        "version": "1.0"
    },
    "data": {
        "name1": "value1",
        "name2": "value2"
    }
}

Installation

From Source

To install from source, you can clone this repository and install USTDownloadCache:

$> git clone https://github.com/canonical/ust-download-cache
$> pip3 install --user ./ust-download-cache/

As a dependency

As USTDownloadCache is not in PyPI at the moment, you must use the github tarball in your setup.py:

install_requires = [
        "ust-download-cache @ https://github.com/canonical/ust-download-cache/archive/v1.0.1.tar.gz",
]

Development

Installing precommit hooks

To install the precommit hooks, run

pip3 install --user pre-commit
~/.local/bin/pre-commit install

Running the test suite

You can run the automated test suite by running

$> python3 -m pytest

An HTML code coverage report will be generated at ./htmlcov. You can view this with any web browser (e.g. firefox ./htmlcov/index.html).

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