Re: [myexperiment-hackers] Possible major caching issue on myExperiment

[Danius Michaelides]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Jiten Bhagat wrote:

> Sergey and I have brought up this question before, but I just wanted to check 
> again.
>
> When things are created via the API (currently workflows and comments), are 
> the caches invalidated?
>
> My understanding is that we are using sweepers to invalidate caches. But 
> sweepers are only "activated" in controllers. Does the API controller 
> activate the sweepers?
>
> With the latest work on workflow uploads from Trident, with Taverna following 
> suite some point soon, it's crucial that the caches get invalidated when a 
> workflow is uploaded via the API.
>
> Also, the sweepers mechanism won't invalidate caches when objects are 
> created/updated/deleted from the console or background tasks (and so on).

Indeed. Before Don went on holiday, he and I had a conversation about this
and about what to do. Moving the sweepers onto the models is one option.
Refactoring the sweepers (and controller config) to make it easier to
integrate with the API is another.

Something to pick up when Don returns next week.
Danius