On 6/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I intend to use Django for a project that involves presenting some > information comming from an external system. > > In this particular case, I need to hit a URL that will give me back > some XML. I need to process the XML and put it in data structures that > I want to present with Django. > > Since the fetching and processing of XML can take more than a few > seconds, I don't want to have to do it every time a page is fetched on > the Django website. I would like to be able to check the external XML > every minute or so and update my data structures at that moment. > > What would be the "canonical" approach to do this kind of thing in > Django? Are threads safe to use with Django or can they present > problems?
I would think that Django's cache system could be put to good use here. Define a cache timeout that makes you happy. Then when a page request is done with a dirty cache, maybe do an md5 on your XML file. If it hasn't change, just return the page from cache again. Note: I haven't actually tried Django's cache system yet, so someone let me know if I've got this all wrong. Jay P. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
