A front end to a particular cache backend.
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A function decorator that will cache the return value of the function using a key derived from the function itself and its arguments.
The decorator internally makes use of the CacheRegion.get_or_create() method to access the cache and conditionally call the function. See that method for additional behavioral details.
E.g.:
@someregion.cache_on_arguments()
def generate_something(x, y):
return somedatabase.query(x, y)
The decorated function can then be called normally, where data will be pulled from the cache region unless a new value is needed:
result = generate_something(5, 6)
The function is also given an attribute invalidate, which provides for invalidation of the value. Pass to invalidate() the same arguments you’d pass to the function itself to represent a particular value:
generate_something.invalidate(5, 6)
Another attribute set is added to provide extra caching possibilities relative to the function. This is a convenience method for CacheRegion.set() which will store a given value directly without calling the decorated function. The value to be cached is passed as the first argument, and the arguments which would normally be passed to the function should follow:
generate_something.set(3, 5, 6)
The above example is equivalent to calling generate_something(5, 6), if the function were to produce the value 3 as the value to be cached.
New in version 0.4.1: Added set() method to decorated function.
The default key generation will use the name of the function, the module name for the function, the arguments passed, as well as an optional “namespace” parameter in order to generate a cache key.
Given a function one inside the module myapp.tools:
@region.cache_on_arguments(namespace="foo")
def one(a, b):
return a + b
Above, calling one(3, 4) will produce a cache key as follows:
myapp.tools:one|foo|3 4
The key generator will ignore an initial argument of self or cls, making the decorator suitable (with caveats) for use with instance or class methods. Given the example:
class MyClass(object):
@region.cache_on_arguments(namespace="foo")
def one(self, a, b):
return a + b
The cache key above for MyClass().one(3, 4) will again produce the same cache key of myapp.tools:one|foo|3 4 - the name self is skipped.
The namespace parameter is optional, and is used normally to disambiguate two functions of the same name within the same module, as can occur when decorating instance or class methods as below:
class MyClass(object):
@region.cache_on_arguments(namespace='MC')
def somemethod(self, x, y):
""
class MyOtherClass(object):
@region.cache_on_arguments(namespace='MOC')
def somemethod(self, x, y):
""
Above, the namespace parameter disambiguates between somemethod on MyClass and MyOtherClass. Python class declaration mechanics otherwise prevent the decorator from having awareness of the MyClass and MyOtherClass names, as the function is received by the decorator before it becomes an instance method.
The function key generation can be entirely replaced on a per-region basis using the function_key_generator argument present on make_region() and CacheRegion. If defaults to function_key_generator().
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Configure a CacheRegion.
The CacheRegion itself is returned.
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Configure from a configuration dictionary and a prefix.
Example:
local_region = make_region()
memcached_region = make_region()
# regions are ready to use for function
# decorators, but not yet for actual caching
# later, when config is available
myconfig = {
"cache.local.backend":"dogpile.cache.dbm",
"cache.local.arguments.filename":"/path/to/dbmfile.dbm",
"cache.memcached.backend":"dogpile.cache.pylibmc",
"cache.memcached.arguments.url":"127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1",
}
local_region.configure_from_config(myconfig, "cache.local.")
memcached_region.configure_from_config(myconfig,
"cache.memcached.")
Remove a value from the cache.
This operation is idempotent (can be called multiple times, or on a non-existent key, safely)
Return a value from the cache, based on the given key.
If the value is not present, the method returns the token NO_VALUE. NO_VALUE evaluates to False, but is separate from None to distinguish between a cached value of None.
By default, the configured expiration time of the CacheRegion, or alternatively the expiration time supplied by the expiration_time argument, is tested against the creation time of the retrieved value versus the current time (as reported by time.time()). If stale, the cached value is ignored and the NO_VALUE token is returned. Passing the flag ignore_expiration=True bypasses the expiration time check.
Changed in version 0.3.0: CacheRegion.get() now checks the value’s creation time against the expiration time, rather than returning the value unconditionally.
The method also interprets the cached value in terms of the current “invalidation” time as set by the invalidate() method. If a value is present, but its creation time is older than the current invalidation time, the NO_VALUE token is returned. Passing the flag ignore_expiration=True bypasses the invalidation time check.
New in version 0.3.0: Support for the CacheRegion.invalidate() method.
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Return a cached value based on the given key.
If the value does not exist or is considered to be expired based on its creation time, the given creation function may or may not be used to recreate the value and persist the newly generated value in the cache.
Whether or not the function is used depends on if the dogpile lock can be acquired or not. If it can’t, it means a different thread or process is already running a creation function for this key against the cache. When the dogpile lock cannot be acquired, the method will block if no previous value is available, until the lock is released and a new value available. If a previous value is available, that value is returned immediately without blocking.
If the invalidate() method has been called, and the retrieved value’s timestamp is older than the invalidation timestamp, the value is unconditionally prevented from being returned. The method will attempt to acquire the dogpile lock to generate a new value, or will wait until the lock is released to return the new value.
Changed in version 0.3.0: The value is unconditionally regenerated if the creation time is older than the last call to invalidate().
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See also:
CacheRegion.cache_on_arguments() - applies get_or_create() to any function using a decorator.
Invalidate this CacheRegion.
Invalidation works by setting a current timestamp (using time.time()) representing the “minimum creation time” for a value. Any retrieved value whose creation time is prior to this timestamp is considered to be stale. It does not affect the data in the cache in any way, and is also local to this instance of CacheRegion.
Once set, the invalidation time is honored by the CacheRegion.get_or_create() and CacheRegion.get() methods.
New in version 0.3.0.
Place a new value in the cache under the given key.
Instantiate a new CacheRegion.
Currently, make_region() is a passthrough to CacheRegion. See that class for constructor arguments.
An integer placed in the CachedValue so that new versions of dogpile.cache can detect cached values from a previous, backwards-incompatible version.
Return a function that generates a string key, based on a given function as well as arguments to the returned function itself.
This is used by CacheRegion.cache_on_arguments() to generate a cache key from a decorated function.
It can be replaced using the function_key_generator argument passed to make_region().
See the section Creating Backends for details on how to register new backends.
Base class for backend implementations.
Delete a value from the cache.
The key will be whatever was passed to the registry, processed by the “key mangling” function, if any.
The behavior here should be idempotent, that is, can be called any number of times regardless of whether or not the key exists.
Retrieve a value from the cache.
The returned value should be an instance of CachedValue, or NO_VALUE if not present.
Return an optional mutexing object for the given key.
This object need only provide an acquire() and release() method.
May return None, in which case the dogpile lock will use a regular threading.Lock object to mutex concurrent threads for value creation. The default implementation returns None.
Different backends may want to provide various kinds of “mutex” objects, such as those which link to lock files, distributed mutexes, memcached semaphores, etc. Whatever kind of system is best suited for the scope and behavior of the caching backend.
A mutex that takes the key into account will allow multiple regenerate operations across keys to proceed simultaneously, while a mutex that does not will serialize regenerate operations to just one at a time across all keys in the region. The latter approach, or a variant that involves a modulus of the given key’s hash value, can be used as a means of throttling the total number of value recreation operations that may proceed at one time.
Key mangling function.
May be None, or otherwise declared as an ordinary instance method.
Set a value in the cache.
The key will be whatever was passed to the registry, processed by the “key mangling” function, if any. The value will always be an instance of CachedValue.
Represent a value stored in the cache.
CachedValue is a two-tuple of (payload, metadata), where metadata is dogpile.cache’s tracking information ( currently the creation time). The metadata and tuple structure is pickleable, if the backend requires serialization.
Named accessor for the dogpile.cache metadata dictionary.
Named accessor for the payload.
Value returned from get() that describes a key not present.
Describe a missing cache value.
The NO_VALUE module global should be used.
Provides a simple dictionary-based backend.
A backend that uses a plain dictionary.
There is no size management, and values which are placed into the dictionary will remain until explicitly removed. Note that Dogpile’s expiration of items is based on timestamps and does not remove them from the cache.
E.g.:
from dogpile.cache import make_region
region = make_region().configure(
'dogpile.cache.memory'
)
To use a Python dictionary of your choosing, it can be passed in with the cache_dict argument:
my_dictionary = {}
region = make_region().configure(
'dogpile.cache.memory',
arguments={
"cache_dict":my_dictionary
}
)
Provides backends for talking to memcached.
Base class for memcached backends.
This base class accepts a number of paramters common to all backends.
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The GenericMemachedBackend uses a threading.local() object to store individual client objects per thread, as most modern memcached clients do not appear to be inherently threadsafe.
In particular, threading.local() has the advantage over pylibmc’s built-in thread pool in that it automatically discards objects associated with a particular thread when that thread ends.
Return the memcached client.
This uses a threading.local by default as it appears most modern memcached libs aren’t inherently threadsafe.
Additional arguments which will be passed to the set() method.
A backend using the standard Python-memcached library.
Example:
from dogpile.cache import make_region
region = make_region().configure(
'dogpile.cache.memcached',
expiration_time = 3600,
arguments = {
'url':"127.0.0.1:11211"
}
)
A backend for the pylibmc memcached client.
A configuration illustrating several of the optional arguments described in the pylibmc documentation:
from dogpile.cache import make_region
region = make_region().configure(
'dogpile.cache.pylibmc',
expiration_time = 3600,
arguments = {
'url':["127.0.0.1"],
'binary':True,
'behaviors':{"tcp_nodelay": True,"ketama":True}
}
)
Arguments accepted here include those of GenericMemcachedBackend, as well as those below.
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A backend for the python-binary-memcached memcached client.
This is a pure Python memcached client which includes the ability to authenticate with a memcached server using SASL.
A typical configuration using username/password:
from dogpile.cache import make_region
region = make_region().configure(
'dogpile.cache.bmemcached',
expiration_time = 3600,
arguments = {
'url':["127.0.0.1"],
'username':'scott',
'password':'tiger'
}
)
Arguments which can be passed to the arguments dictionary include:
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Simple distributed lock using memcached.
This is an adaptation of the lock featured at http://amix.dk/blog/post/19386
Provides backends for talking to Redis.
A Redis backend, using the redis-py backend.
Example configuration:
from dogpile.cache import make_region
region = make_region().configure(
'dogpile.cache.redis',
arguments = {
'host': 'localhost',
'port': 6379,
'db': 0,
'redis_expiration_time': 60*60*2, # 2 hours
'distributed_lock':True
}
)
Arguments accepted in the arguments dictionary:
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Simple distributed lock using Redis.
This is an adaptation of the memcached lock featured at http://amix.dk/blog/post/19386
Provides backends that deal with local filesystem access.
A file-backend using a dbm file to store keys.
Basic usage:
from dogpile.cache import make_region
region = make_region().configure(
'dogpile.cache.dbm',
expiration_time = 3600,
arguments = {
"filename":"/path/to/cachefile.dbm"
}
)
DBM access is provided using the Python anydbm module, which selects a platform-specific dbm module to use. This may be made to be more configurable in a future release.
Note that different dbm modules have different behaviors. Some dbm implementations handle their own locking, while others don’t. The DBMBackend uses a read/write lockfile by default, which is compatible even with those DBM implementations for which this is unnecessary, though the behavior can be disabled.
The DBM backend by default makes use of two lockfiles. One is in order to protect the DBM file itself from concurrent writes, the other is to coordinate value creation (i.e. the dogpile lock). By default, these lockfiles use the flock() system call for locking; this is only available on Unix platforms.
Currently, the dogpile lock is against the entire DBM file, not per key. This means there can only be one “creator” job running at a time per dbm file.
A future improvement might be to have the dogpile lock using a filename that’s based on a modulus of the key. Locking on a filename that uniquely corresponds to the key is problematic, since it’s not generally safe to delete lockfiles as the application runs, implying an unlimited number of key-based files would need to be created and never deleted.
Parameters to the arguments dictionary are below.
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Use lockfiles to coordinate read/write access to a file.
Only works on Unix systems, using fcntl.flock().
dogpile.cache includes a Mako plugin that replaces Beaker as the cache backend. Setup a Mako template lookup using the “dogpile.cache” cache implementation and a region dictionary:
from dogpile.cache import make_region
from mako.lookup import TemplateLookup
my_regions = {
"local":make_region().configure(
"dogpile.cache.dbm",
expiration_time=360,
arguments={"filename":"file.dbm"}
),
"memcached":make_region().configure(
"dogpile.cache.pylibmc",
expiration_time=3600,
arguments={"url":["127.0.0.1"]}
)
}
mako_lookup = TemplateLookup(
directories=["/myapp/templates"],
cache_impl="dogpile.cache",
cache_args={
'regions':my_regions
}
)
To use the above configuration in a template, use the cached=True argument on any Mako tag which accepts it, in conjunction with the name of the desired region as the cache_region argument:
<%def name="mysection()" cached="True" cache_region="memcached">
some content that's cached
</%def>
A Mako CacheImpl which talks to dogpile.cache.
Return a function that generates a string key, based on a given function as well as arguments to the returned function itself.
This is used by CacheRegion.cache_on_arguments() to generate a cache key from a decorated function.
It can be replaced using the function_key_generator argument passed to make_region().
a SHA1 key mangler.
a key mangler that mangles if the length of the key is past a certain threshold.