generalized search caching+discussion

a few observations:

  • Hard for me to tell so far how generalizable the "Test" part is; would be good to work out some examples.
  • Worth noting that no db queries are involved in the tests (provided the cache is populated)
  • Even if we don't generalize the capacity to auto-generate a test from WQL, this general structure could be pretty useful in moving the rationale of cache clearing away from the clearers and toward the clearees (which would seem to be a more reusable pattern).
  • For example, CalculatedValues would not be a CachedSearch card, but it could certainly add code to a "cache_clear hash" and function largely as outlined above.
  • Would be cool to explore how this might work in caching "contributions" on WikiRate as one of the next steps.
--Ethan McCutchen.....2015-05-21 05:46:24 +0000