from threading import currentThread from django.core.cache.backends.locmem import LocMemCache _request_cache = {} class RequestCache(LocMemCache): """ LocMemCache is a threadsafe local memory cache """ def __init__(self): name = 'locmemcache@%i' % hash(currentThread()) super(RequestCache, self).__init__(name, {}) def get_request_cache(): """ Returns per-request cache when running RequestCacheMiddleware otherwise a new LocMemCache instance (when running periodic tasks or shell) """ try: return _request_cache[currentThread()] except KeyError: cache = RequestCache() _request_cache[currentThread()] = cache return cache class RequestCacheMiddleware(object): def process_request(self, request): cache = _request_cache.get(currentThread(), RequestCache()) _request_cache[currentThread()] = cache cache.clear() def process_response(self, request, response): # TODO not sure if this actually saves memory, remove otherwise if currentThread() in _request_cache: _request_cache[currentThread()].clear() return response