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Cache a django view that has URL parameters

Asked 2009-10-19T18:41:59.773
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I have recently implemented Django's excellent cache framework. However from what I understand Django will not cache a view that is passed parameters in a get request. I have an Ajax view that is passed get parameters that I would like to cache for X seconds, what would be an easy way to do this?

In psuedo code I currently have a URL:

http://mysites/ajaxthing/?user=foo&items=10

I would like to cache any this url as long as it has the same get parameters.

I'm currently using the cache decorators in my view:

myview(stuff)

myview = cache_page(myview, 60 * 3)

I did read about django's vary headers but it went a little over my head, and I'm not even sure its the correct solution

python django memcached
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Yes, you can use django-view-cache-utils, here is code for your case:

from view_cache_utils import cache_page_with_prefix
from django.utils.hashcompat import md5_constructor
...
@cache_page_with_prefix(60*15, lambda request: md5_constructor(request.get_full_path()).hexdigest())
def my_view(request):
    ...
answered 2009-10-28T22:34:01.597

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