Opened 12 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#18482 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Cache backend API should close()

Reported by: Russell Keith-Magee Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Cache system) Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: yes UI/UX: no

Description

At present, only the memcached cache backends have a close() method. This means that you can't reliably call close() on a cache -- you need to protect it with "hasattr(cache, 'close')".

Django's own code even does this, in the end-request signal handler.

The cache backend API should include a no-op close() method by default, matching the API from the memcached backend.

The close() method (and the end-request handler) were added in r8418

Change History (6)

comment:1 by mgrouchy, 12 years ago

I added a pull request for this issue here: https://github.com/django/django/pull/218

I'm not sure if there any extra test requirements for this, but if there are, I would appreciate some guidance there and will update the pull request appropriately.

comment:2 by Russell Keith-Magee, 12 years ago

Needs tests: set
Patch needs improvement: set

Thanks for the patch!

The test requirement here is really just to exercise the new API point. There is an existing suite of cache tests in regressiontests/cache that use every function on the cache API; add a new test that calls close to the BaseCacheTest, and that method will be invoked for every cache backend.

in reply to:  2 comment:3 by mgrouchy, 12 years ago

Replying to russellm:

Thanks for the patch!

No Problem!

The test requirement here is really just to exercise the new API point. There is an existing suite of cache tests in regressiontests/cache that use every function on the cache API; add a new test that calls close to the BaseCacheTest, and that method will be invoked for every cache backend.

I added a Test, basically ensuring close exists and then using the endpoint.

Let me know if anything needs to be changed there. Pull request has been updated.

comment:4 by mgrouchy, 12 years ago

Hey, is there anything that I should do to get this ticket closed/pull request merged?

comment:5 by Russell Keith-Magee, 12 years ago

Needs tests: unset
Patch needs improvement: unset
Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

Nope - the patch looks good to commit. Thanks!

comment:6 by Aymeric Augustin, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In 4c5cea70734fe8f4082c6a9bd8b26cf0a157ca78:

Merge pull request #218 from mgrouchy/ticket_18582

Fixed #18582 -- Added a no-op close to BaseCache

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