edx-django-utils 2.0.2

EdX utilities for Django Application development.

EdX utilities for Django Application development.

Note that some utilities may warrant their own repository. A judgement call needs to be made as to whether code properly belongs here or not. Please review with the Architecture Team if you have any questions.

Overview

This repository includes shared utilities for:

• Cache Utilities: Includes a RequestCache and a TieredCache.

• Monitoring Utilities: Includes Middleware and utilities for enhancing metrics output. At this time, supports NewRelic monitoring.

Documentation

The full documentation is in the docs directory.

TODO: Publish to https://edx-django-utils.readthedocs.org.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

How To Contribute

Contributions are very welcome.

Please read How To Contribute for details.

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Change Log

Unreleased

[2.0.1] - 2019-10-09

Changed

• Fixed: Updated function tracing to accomodate changes in New Relic’s 5.x Agent.

[2.0.0] - 2019-07-07

Changed

• Converted Middleware (from old style MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES to MIDDLEWARE).

• Removed support for Django versions < 1.11

[1.0.1] - 2018-09-07

Changed

• Fixed: RequestCache now properly uses thread.local.

• Fixed: CachedResponse.__repr__ now handles unicode.

[1.0.0] - 2018-08-28

Added

• Add data dict property to better match legacy RequestCache interface.

Changed

• Change is_hit/is_miss to is_found.

[0.5.1] - 2018-08-17

Changed

• Fixed bug in TieredCacheMiddleware dependency declaration.

[0.5.0] - 2018-08-16

Changed

• Restored Python 3 support.

• Refactor/clean-up, including Middleware dependency checking.

• Docs updates and other cookiecutter updates.

[0.4.1] - 2018-08-10

Changed

• Split out TieredCacheMiddleware from RequestCacheMiddleware.

[0.4.0] - 2018-08-10

Changed

• Rename CacheUtilsMiddleware to RequestCacheMiddleware.

[0.3.0] - 2018-08-02

Removed

• Temporarily dropped Python 3 support to land this.

[0.2.0] - 2018-08-01

Added

• Added cache and monitoring utilities.

[0.1.0] - 2018-07-23

Added

• First release on PyPI.