Cacher

Inspired by the Laravel Cache Facade, cacher provides a convenient wrapper around the official Redis client. This library provides two methods for interacting with Redis. The first is via standard types such as strings, bytes, numbers, etc. However, often times we want to store structs. Cacher also ships with an Entity cache that uses generics. This client automatically marshalls the structs using JSON to and from the redis cache.

Usage

Client

The client provides a standard wrapper around the Redis client.

rdb := redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{
    Addr:     "localhost:6379",
    Password: "", // no password set
    DB:       0,  // use default DB
})

cache := cacher.New(rdb)

// fetch a value from the cache or from our database if it doesnt existing the cache
value, err := cache.RememberString(ctx, "my-key", time.Hour*24, func(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
    // ... fetch value from database

    return databaseValue, nil
})

// put a value in the cache
err := cache.Put(ctx, "my-key", "hello-world", time.Hour*24)

err := cache.PutForever(ctx, "my-key", "hello-world")

// get a string from the cache
value, err := cache.GetString(ctx, "my-key")

// delete a key in the database
err := cache.Forget(ctx, "my-key")

Entity Client

The entity client uses generics and JSON marshalling for automatically marhsalling data to and from the cache.

type MyEntity struct {}

rdb := redis.NewClient(&redis.Options{
    Addr:     "localhost:6379",
    Password: "", // no password set
    DB:       0,  // use default DB
})

cache := cacher.NewEntity[MyEntity](rdb)

// fetch a value from the cache or from our database if it doesnt existing the cache
value, err := cache.Remember(ctx, "my-key", time.Hour*24, func(ctx context.Context) (*MyEntity, error) {
    // ... fetch value from database
    return databaseValue, nil
})

// put a value in the cache
err := cache.Put(ctx, "my-key", &MyEntity{}, time.Hour*24)

err := cache.PutForever(ctx, "my-key", &MyEntity{})

// get a string from the cache
value, err := cache.Get(ctx, "my-key")

// delete a key in the database
err := cache.Forget(ctx, "my-key")

Sponsors

Cacher is a non-commercial open source project. If you want to support Cacher, you can sponsor the project through Github.

License

Copyright © 2023 Alex Rhea. This project is available with the MIT License.