Add API cacheing

[sferik]

Add API cacheing

[sferik]

IMHO, this type of caching is best done at the application layer.

[ehaselwanter]

but this is the application layer. or do you mean I should integrate caching in the twitter library. that is what I don't want to do. as this is the api from my point of view

[sferik]

Until proven otherwise, I assume that everyone using this library has different tolerances for data freshness/staleness. If I took your suggestion and implemented APICache within the library, all responses would be cached for 10 minutes (since that is the policy of APICache). While this might be desirable for your application, someone who needs realtime responses would be unable to use this library anymore. So, IHMO, this library should not implement caching.

[ehaselwanter]

ah. now I get it. we are talking about different things. my point is, that at least the list_timeline response was not marshallable from APICache. And my question was if the response could be made marshallable. As you can see I can do a to_json and JSON.parse to use it with APICache. no need to have it in the api (but it would be great option, I guess).

and you are right. there are different tolerances ;-)