Thanks for the replies folks, you've been very helpful. One more question though - I didn't find any "official" way to clear the cache of a certain object. Any suggestions?
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2010, at 1:22 PM, Itay Donenhirsch wrote: > >> hi folks, a little question: when using any caching mechanism (say, >> memcache) with django, how does django know when to "refresh" the >> cache? >> >> a scenario for example: >> 1. user gets a page, gets page content A >> 2. someone changes the state of the database so A -> A' >> 3. user refreshes the same page, does he get A or A'? >> >> how does django know to handle this? > > Django doesn't; hopefully, you do. :) > > The "binding" (in a very general sense) between your model and the templates > that get rendered to the client is your view function; Django doesn't > inherently know what cached templates depend on which rows in the database. > Thus, it's really your code that knows what cached templates need to be > invalidated when a database change occurs. The typical way of doing this > for the view function that handles the database update also does the > appropriate cached template invalidation. > > -- > -- Christophe Pettus > x...@thebuild.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
