""" Caching framework. This package defines set of cache backends that all conform to a simple API. In a nutshell, a cache is a set of values -- which can be any object that may be pickled -- identified by string keys. For the complete API, see the abstract BaseCache class in django.core.cache.backends.base. Client code should not access a cache backend directly; instead it should either use the "cache" variable made available here, or it should use the get_cache() function made available here. get_cache() takes a backend URI (e.g. "memcached://127.0.0.1:11211/") and returns an instance of a backend cache class. See docs/cache.txt for information on the public API. """ from cgi import parse_qsl from django.conf import settings from django.core import signals from django.core.cache.backends.base import InvalidCacheBackendError # Name for use in settings file --> name of module in "backends" directory. # Any backend scheme that is not in this dictionary is treated as a Python # import path to a custom backend. BACKENDS = { 'memcached': 'memcached', 'locmem': 'locmem', 'file': 'filebased', 'db': 'db', 'dummy': 'dummy', } def get_cache(backend_uri): if backend_uri.find(':') == -1: raise InvalidCacheBackendError, "Backend URI must start with scheme://" scheme, rest = backend_uri.split(':', 1) if not rest.startswith('//'): raise InvalidCacheBackendError, "Backend URI must start with scheme://" host = rest[2:] qpos = rest.find('?') if qpos != -1: params = dict(parse_qsl(rest[qpos+1:])) host = rest[2:qpos] else: params = {} if host.endswith('/'): host = host[:-1] if scheme in BACKENDS: module = __import__('django.core.cache.backends.%s' % BACKENDS[scheme], {}, {}, ['']) else: module = __import__(scheme, {}, {}, ['']) return getattr(module, 'CacheClass')(host, params) cache = get_cache(settings.CACHE_BACKEND) # Some caches -- pythont-memcached in particular -- need to do a cleanup at the # end of a request cycle. If the cache provides a close() method, wire it up # here. if hasattr(cache, 'close'): signals.request_finished.connect(cache.close)