from django.core.cache import cache from django.utils.httpwrappers import HttpResponseNotModified from django.utils.text import compress_string from django.conf.settings import DEFAULT_CHARSET import datetime, md5 def cache_page(view_func, cache_timeout, key_prefix=''): """ Decorator for views that tries getting the page from the cache and populates the cache if the page isn't in the cache yet. Also takes care of ETags and gzips the page if the client supports it. The cache is keyed off of the page's URL plus the optional key_prefix variable. Use key_prefix if your Django setup has multiple sites that use cache; otherwise the cache for one site would affect the other. A good example of key_prefix is to use sites.get_current().domain, because that's unique across all Django instances on a particular server. """ def _check_cache(request, *args, **kwargs): try: accept_encoding = request.META['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'] except KeyError: accept_encoding = '' accepts_gzip = 'gzip' in accept_encoding cache_key = 'views.decorators.cache.cache_page.%s.%s.%s' % (key_prefix, request.path, accepts_gzip) response = cache.get(cache_key, None) if response is None: response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) content = response.get_content_as_string(DEFAULT_CHARSET) if accepts_gzip: content = compress_string(content) response.content = content response['Content-Encoding'] = 'gzip' response['ETag'] = md5.new(content).hexdigest() response['Content-Length'] = '%d' % len(content) response['Last-Modified'] = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT') cache.set(cache_key, response, cache_timeout) else: # Logic is from http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/04/23/conditionalGet try: if_none_match = request.META['HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH'] except KeyError: if_none_match = None try: if_modified_since = request.META['HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'] except KeyError: if_modified_since = None if if_none_match is None and if_modified_since is None: pass elif if_none_match is not None and response['ETag'] != if_none_match: pass elif if_modified_since is not None and response['Last-Modified'] != if_modified_since: pass else: return HttpResponseNotModified() return response return _check_cache