[TYPO3-dev] t3lib_cache

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Ingo Renner wrote: on 18.01.2008 18:02:
> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> 
> Hi Ernesto,
> 
>>> Why only single views?
>>> if a record is changed, then also a list view can be changed, right?
>>
>> Yes, but which? A list view showing the 5 "latest" news in category 
>> ABC. How will a single record change affect that cache? What about a 
>> *new* news record? Will it appear on that page? Depends on its 
>> timestamp and on the category it is in etc. Maybe a record is updated, 
>> it was on category XY, now it is also on category ABC. Only the 
>> extension itself knows where this record might appear. This is what I 
>> was trying to explain, why it is not so simple for TYPO3 core to know 
>> what caches to clean on a simple record changes (or on expiration of 
>> endtime).
> 
> Well, an extension would then need to hook into TCEmain and watch for 
> its records to run by as they get created or changed. When this happes 
> the extension needs to take care of marking certain parts of the cache 
> as "dirty". This should all be very simple for extension developers by 
> using an API - otherwise if it isn't easy, they won't use it...

All agreed! But still difficult.. :)

Cheers,
Ernesto