Restify-cache

Based on the query string, it will store/retrieve JSON responses from Redis. This is a Work In Progress, not ready for production (headers are not cached as of now).

Usage

var cache = require('restify-cache');
cache.config({
    redisPort: 6379,            //Number (default: '6379')
    redisHost: 'localhost',     //String (default: 'localhost')
    redisOptions: {},           //Object (optional)
    redisAuth: 'password'       //String (optional)
    prefix: 'myname',           //String (optional, this will add a string prefix to the redis key)
    cacheHeader: 'x-api-key',   //String (optional, this will cache any request with this header key)
    cacheMethods: ['GET']       //Array  (optional, will only cache specified request methods; default ['GET']
    ttl: 60 * 60                //Number (optional, default:  60 * 60; in seconds)
});

The first middleware after auth (if there is any) should be the cache's before.

server.use(cache.before);

You have to subscribe for the server's after event as well.

WARNING! In your route handlers, you always have to call next()!

server.on('after', cache.after);

Cache Control

Use of Restify's res.cache() method will control the EXPIRE time in Redis. The absence of a response cache will use the cache.config.ttl value identified above.

Indicates that the response should be cached for 600 seconds.

res.cache('public', 600);

A maxAge value of 0 will engage Redis, but set the expire seconds to 0 (essentially expiring immediately).

res.cache('public', 0);

Additional Headers

A header is added to each response:

• X-Cache: HIT - the response was served from cache
• X-Cache: MISS - the response generation fell through to the endpoint