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Cachefile in ExpandTemplate() and never reload ?
Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. Cachefile in ExpandTemplate() and never reload ?
  Marcel DESMET
  All
  May 5, 2020 @ 12:25pm

Hello, can't figure out how to cache files and never reload it in expandtemplate() ?

0 means - don't cache in wconnect.h

*** Determines whether TEMPLATE pages are cached (ExpandTemplate calls)
*** Note: This value specifies how often the file is checked for
***       a newer version in seconds. 0 means - don't cache.
#DEFINE WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES			0

   *** Read HTML from a disk file
   #IF WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES > 0
      lcOutput = CacheFile(tcPageName,WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES)
      IF !EMPTY(lcOutput)
        loEval = CREATE("wwScripting")
        RETURN THIS.Write(loEval.MergeText(@lcOutput),tlNoOutput)
      ELSE
        RETURN THIS.Write(lcOutput+[<h2>Can't find or open page ]+JUSTFNAME(tcPagename)+[</h2>])
      ENDIF
   #ELSE

And we have to use 0 to never reload in Cachefile

************************************************************************
FUNCTION CacheFile
******************
***  Function: Caches read from disk in a cursor. Use like File2Var.
***    Assume: Using llCheckDate can worsen performance considerably
***      Pass: lcFileName       -   Name of the file to read/cache
***            lnRefreshSeconds -   If the file cached is older than
***                                 the number of seconds specified
***                                 here it's reloaded. Use 0 to 
***                                 never reload.
***            llMergeText       -  if .T. merges ASP style tags
***                                 on the content from the file
***                                 and stores result in the cache
***    Return: String of the file or "" 
************************************************************************
LPARAMETERS lcFileName, lnRefreshSeconds, llMergeText
Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Cachefile in ExpandTemplate() and never reload ?
  Rick Strahl
  Marcel DESMET
  May 5, 2020 @ 01:39pm

The cache is a cursor so if the (wwCache) cursor gets closed the cache gets released too. So make sure there's no code that closes the cache. Shutting down will close the cache as well as by default WWWC does CLOSE ALL at the end of the application.

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Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Cachefile in ExpandTemplate() and never reload ?
  Marcel DESMET
  Rick Strahl
  May 5, 2020 @ 01:45pm

Thank you for your reply Rick, but the problem is to call the cachefile() function we have to set WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES > 0 and to get never reload we have to put WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES = 0. The solution of course will be to set WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES to a large number of seconds, just wanted to pointed out the problem that we can put the value to WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES = 0

Gravatar is a globally recognized avatar based on your email address. re: Cachefile in ExpandTemplate() and never reload ?
  Rick Strahl
  Marcel DESMET
  May 5, 2020 @ 09:00pm

Hmmm... maybe we should change the default value of WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES to -1 then change the code where it's used to > -1. Since I can change this in the default wconnect.h template this would be a non-breaking change unless somebody explicitly has the value overridden and set to 0 (which is unlikely since that was the default).

This would allow using 0 as the default value to caching indefinitely.

Adding the following in wconnect.h:

*** Determines whether TEMPLATE pages are cached (ExpandTemplate calls)
*** Note: This value specifies how often the file is checked for
***       a newer version in seconds. 
*** < 0 or -1 means - don't cache. 
*** 0 means cache indefinitely. 
*** > 0 means number of seconds to cache
#DEFINE WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES			-1

And then updating wwPageResponse and wwResponse to:

   *** Read HTML from a disk file
   #IF WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES > -1
      lcOutput = CacheFile(tcPageName,WWC_CACHE_TEMPLATES)

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