Force cache hits during automated testing

[shawnmjones]

Force cache hits during automated testing

[shawnmjones]

It does not appear that cachecontrol and requests actually work together.

import requests
import redis
from cachecontrol import CacheControl
from cachecontrol.caches.redis_cache import RedisCache

print("starting")

pool = redis.ConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
rconn = redis.Redis(connection_pool=pool)
session = CacheControl(requests.session(), RedisCache(rconn))

print(rconn.keys())
print("requesting...")
r = session.get("http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/")
print(rconn.keys())
print("done")

prints:

starting
[]
requesting...
[]
done

Nothing was written to the redis cache!

For RedisCache, the cachecontrol documentation notes "This is primarily a proof of concept, so please file bugs if there is a better method for utilizing redis as a cache."

I did not have any luck with FileCache either. Sometimes it would cache. Others it would not.

No caching headers on this URI either:

# curl -I "http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:36:32 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding

I may need to write my own caching system.

[shawnmjones]

This should be addressed by aec95d8