Adding async methods to BaseCache

[Andrew Chen Wang]

I've recently created a new package for Redis and Django integration at ​django-async-redis. I'd like to add the missing methods, e.g. get_async or set_async to the BaseCache so people can get type hints or autocompletion suggestions when using django.core.cache.cache with async.

Additionally, in order to be compatible with the async methods, there would need to be a new async method for closing cache connections/pools at ​django.core.cache.backends.base. I believe the only good solution to that would be:

async def close_caches_async(**kwargs):
    # Some caches -- python-memcached in particular -- need to do a cleanup at the
    # end of a request cycle. If not implemented in a particular backend
    # cache.close is a no-op
    for cache in caches.all():
        await cache.close_async()

Please let me know if that is out of scope though. I also believe implementing async methods for the current backends is also out of scope of this ticket (and my time :P). Edit: on second thought, I will add the methods to DummyCache as well.

For reference, the Google Group Discussion: ​here and ​here