Extended HTTP-caching for Django
Project description
Enhanced cache_page
decorator for Django views.
Compatibility
Django-cache properly works with Django 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11 on Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.
Advantages
fixed certain amount of bugs (including #15855)
support of callable
cache_timeout
andkey_prefix
parameterscache age can be limited by client (min cache age is manageable, default is 0)
Usage
from djangocache import cache_page
@cache_page(cache_timeout=600)
def view(request):
pass
Combination with last_modified
and/or etag
view decorators
If you planning to use cache_page
among with last_modified
and/or etag
the latter must be placed after cache_page
:
from djangocache import cache_page
from django.views.decorators.http import last_modified, etag
def etag_generator(request, *args, **kwargs):
return 'ETag!!'
@cache_page(cache_timeout=600)
@etag(etag_generator)
def view(request, *args, **kwargs):
pass
Django Settings
DJANGOCACHE_MIN_AGE - used to set minimal age of cache. Default is 0, meaning that client can ask server to skip cache by providing header Cache-Control: max-age=0.
@cache_page params
cache_timeout. Default is settings.CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS.
key_prefix. Default is settings.CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX.
cache_alias. Default is settings.CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS, or settings.DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS if set to None.
cache_min_age. Default is settings.DJANGOCACHE_MIN_AGE.
Installation
pip install --upgrade django-cache
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