from threading import currentThread from django.core.cache.backends.dummy import DummyCache 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 DummyCache instance (when running periodic tasks, tests or shell) """ try: return _request_cache[currentThread()] except KeyError: return DummyCache('dummy', {}) class RequestCacheMiddleware(object): def process_request(self, request): cache = _request_cache.get(currentThread()) or RequestCache() _request_cache[currentThread()] = cache cache.clear() def process_response(self, request, response): if currentThread() in _request_cache: _request_cache[currentThread()].clear() return response