[TYPO3-mvc] blog_example - caching issues?

[Jochen Rau]

Hi.


On 2009-05-21 22:22:56 +0200, Steffen Kamper <info at sk-typo3.de> said:
> Ingmar Schlecht schrieb:
>> Helmut Hummel schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Am 20.05.2009 12:50 Uhr, schrieb Sebastian Kurf?ürst:
>>>> How would you solve the caching issues when writing a standard PIBase
>>>> Extension? How would you clear the cache depencies there?
>>> I'd write a USER_INT plugin or use no_cache for the page ;)
>>> 
>>> Seriously I think this is how it is solved very often currently, but as
>>> Ingo pointed out this is no real solution and the only way to go is take
>>> advantage of the new caching framework in TYPO3 4.3
>> 
>> OK then, what about this as a very quick fix for Alpha 3:
>> 
>> Just have Extbase plugins *always* be USER_INT for now, i.e.
>> disregarding the whole caching differntiation.
>> 
>> I think that gives a better user experience for the start, and it could
>> clearly be pointed out in a code comment that it is only a temporary
>> solution for Alpha 3.
>> 
> 
> i dislike for following reason:
> if you disable cache no user will be sensible for cache issues. 
> Remembers me to my first steps in TYPO3, where i used config.no_cache=1 
> because i didn't understood how to use cache right.
> 
> If dev doesn't want it he can disable cache with one line of TS, but 
> having cache enabled shows:
> * where is the problem
> * ways to solve it
> * knowledge what is cached and what not
> 
> So please don't disable cache for the release. It's alpha and shows the 
> need of fixing this issue.

I agree with Steffen. We should not disable the cache by default. Why 
don't we advise the brave tester of the alpha3 to set no_cache = 1 for 
the experience and no_cache = 0 for todays reality :-)?

For the final release we definitely need a more sophisticated solution ;-) .

-- Jochen