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Caching backends

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Hello! I think it would be interesting having a section in Starlette docs documenting how to use caching as this is something you end up doing typically for lots of services.

I’m the maintainer of aiocache which is a caching framework agnostic to any http framework. I could write docs about things like:

how to use aiocache with starlette for caching endpoints
how to write configuration for caching and load it when starting a Starlette app

Any other thing you could think of you usually do when setting caching for your app. Also happy to receive comments, issues and PRs if you think there is anything missing to integrate nicely with Starlette 😃.

Would you be interested on me providing a PR documenting that? A new section called “Caching” in https://www.starlette.io/ maybe?

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florimondmancacommented, Nov 5, 2019

@patrys Yup, and if you look closely you’ll see that async-caches is a dependency for asgi-caches. I initially thought of adding the ASGI functionality to async-caches via a PR, but figured that the nice frontier between the generic async world (async-caches) and the ASGI world (asgi-caches) would make things easier to maintain and iterate. As with many third-party ASGI libraries, there is room on my side for eventually merging it into Starlette, provided built-in caching support in Starlette is on the roadmap.

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argaencommented, Mar 26, 2019

I’m not sure I’d use a decorator in that way in many uses cases - if there’s any aspect of the page that varies by user-authentication, then it’s not going to work. Really you want HTTP-level caching for that kind of functionality.

yep, that’s what I thought and why I think its complex to support this, but not sure if passing the whole request object all the way is a common pattern for users.

I’m also not quite sure what you mean when you describe the behavior. We could add an eq to Request […]

yeh not 100% comfortable with this though, there are many things involved in a request that can make it different. I’ll go with an example showing how to cache an expensive function call and an http caching middleware plus how to link this with the config. Once I’ll have it we can discuss a bit more with real examples 😃

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