""" This module aims to give a little more fine-tuned control of caching and cache invalidation. Import these instead of django.core.cache. Note that 'default' is being preserved for user session caching, which we're not migrating so as not to inconvenience users by logging them all out. """ from functools import wraps from django.core import cache # If we can't find a 'general' CACHE defined in settings.py, we simply fall back # to returning the default cache. This will happen with dev machines. try: cache = cache.get_cache('general') except Exception: cache = cache.cache def cache_if_anonymous(view_func): """ Many of the pages in edX are identical when the user is not logged in, but should not be cached when the user is logged in (because of the navigation bar at the top with the username). The django middleware cache does not handle this correctly, because we access the session to put the csrf token in the header. This adds the cookie to the vary header, and so every page is cached seperately for each user (because each user has a different csrf token). Note that this decorator should only be used on views that do not contain the csrftoken within the html. The csrf token can be included in the header by ordering the decorators as such: @ensure_csrftoken @cache_if_anonymous def myView(request): """ @wraps(view_func) def _decorated(request, *args, **kwargs): if not request.user.is_authenticated(): #Use the cache # same view accessed through different domain names may # return different things, so include the domain name in the key. domain = str(request.META.get('HTTP_HOST')) + '.' cache_key = domain + "cache_if_anonymous." + request.path response = cache.get(cache_key) if not response: response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) cache.set(cache_key, response, 60 * 3) return response else: #Don't use the cache return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) return _decorated