Apache::Wyrd::Services::FileCache - Cache service for frequently-accessed files
use Apache::Wyrd::Services::FileCache; $self->get_cached('/var/lib/www/document_template.html');
The FileCache is designed to reduce the number of disk accesses required for Wyrds to make use of frequently-used files. It stores such files in memory, checking every 30 seconds to see if they are changed. As the perl environment persists under mod_perl, the cache persists with it.
For areas where changes are very frequent (such as during development), the caching behavior can be turned off within the apache config by setting NoFileCache to a true value:
NoFileCache
PerlSetVar NoFileCache 1
The time between checks is also confiruable using a PerlSetVar directive:
PerlSetVar FileCacheTimeout x
Where x is a number of seconds.
Do not report a fatal error if the file can't be found. Instead, return undef for contents.
(format: (returns) name (arguments after self))
get_cached
Get the file contents. If the file has never been read by this process, it is read into memory. The argument should be an absolute path to the file.
reserves the private global variables: $_file_cache_register, $_file_timestamp_register, and $_previous_checktime_register.
Barry King <wyrd@nospam.wyrdwright.com>
General-purpose HTML-embeddable perl object
Copyright 2002-2007 Wyrdwright, Inc. and licensed under the GNU GPL.
See LICENSE under the documentation for Apache::Wyrd.
Apache::Wyrd
To install Apache::Wyrd, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Apache::Wyrd
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Apache::Wyrd
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.