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Defined in: index.ts:1251

A basic CachePolicy that can be added to the Store service.

Determines staleness based on time since the request was last received from the API using the date header.

Determines expiration based on configured constraints as well as a time based expiration strategy based on the date header.

In order expiration is determined by:

  • Is explicitly invalidated
  • ↳ (if null) isExpired function <IF Constraint Active>
  • ↳ (if null) X-WarpDrive-Expires header <IF Constraint Active>
  • ↳ (if null) Cache-Control header <IF Constraint Active>
  • ↳ (if null) Expires header <IF Constraint Active>
  • ↳ (if null) Date header + apiCacheHardExpires < current time

Invalidates any request for which cacheOptions.types was provided when a createRecord request for that type is successful.

For this to work, the createRecord request must include the cacheOptions.types array with the types that should be invalidated, or its request should specify the identifiers of the records that are being created via records. Providing both is valid.

NOTE

only requests that had specified cacheOptions.types and occurred prior to the createRecord request will be invalidated. This means that a given request should always specify the types that would invalidate it to opt into this behavior. Abstracting this behavior via builders is recommended to ensure consistency.

This allows the Store's CacheHandler to determine if a request is expired and should be refetched upon next request.

The Fetch handler provided by @ember-data/request/fetch will automatically add the date header to responses if it is not present.

NOTE

Date headers do not have millisecond precision, so expiration times should generally be larger than 1000ms.

Usage:

ts
import { CachePolicy } from '@ember-data/request-utils';
import DataStore from '@ember-data/store';

// ...

export class Store extends DataStore {
  constructor(args) {
    super(args);
    this.lifetimes = new CachePolicy({ apiCacheSoftExpires: 30_000, apiCacheHardExpires: 60_000 });
  }
}

In Testing environments, the apiCacheSoftExpires will always be false and apiCacheHardExpires will use the apiCacheSoftExpires value.

This helps reduce flakiness and produce predictably rendered results in test suites.

Requests that specifically set cacheOptions.backgroundReload = true will still be background reloaded in tests.

This behavior can be opted out of by setting disableTestOptimization = true in the policy config.

CachePolicy

Extends

Constructors

Constructor

ts
new LifetimesService(config): LifetimesService;

Defined in: index.ts:1252

Parameters

config

PolicyConfig

Returns

LifetimesService

Overrides

CachePolicy.constructor

Properties

_stores

ts
_stores: WeakMap<Store, {
  invalidated: Set<StableDocumentIdentifier>;
  types: Map<string, Set<StableDocumentIdentifier>>;
}>;

Defined in: index.ts:1010

Inherited from

CachePolicy._stores


config

ts
config: PolicyConfig;

Defined in: index.ts:1009

Inherited from

CachePolicy.config

Methods

_getStore()

ts
_getStore(store): object;

Defined in: index.ts:1015

Parameters

store

Store

Returns

object

invalidated
ts
invalidated: Set<StableDocumentIdentifier>;
types
ts
types: Map<string, Set<StableDocumentIdentifier>>;

Inherited from

CachePolicy._getStore


didRequest()

ts
didRequest(
   request, 
   response, 
   identifier, 
   store): void;

Defined in: index.ts:1119

Invoked when a request has been fulfilled from the configured request handlers. This is invoked by the CacheHandler for both foreground and background requests once the cache has been updated.

Note, this is invoked by the CacheHandler regardless of whether the request has a cache-key.

This method should not be invoked directly by consumers.

Parameters

request

ImmutableRequestInfo

response

null | Response | ResponseInfo

identifier

null | StableDocumentIdentifier

store

Store

Returns

void

Inherited from

CachePolicy.didRequest


invalidateRequest()

ts
invalidateRequest(identifier, store): void;

Defined in: index.ts:1065

Invalidate a request by its identifier for a given store instance.

While the store argument may seem redundant, the CachePolicy is designed to be shared across multiple stores / forks of the store.

ts
store.lifetimes.invalidateRequest(store, identifier);

Parameters

identifier

StableDocumentIdentifier

store

Store

Returns

void

Inherited from

CachePolicy.invalidateRequest


invalidateRequestsForType()

ts
invalidateRequestsForType(type, store): void;

Defined in: index.ts:1088

Invalidate all requests associated to a specific type for a given store instance.

While the store argument may seem redundant, the CachePolicy is designed to be shared across multiple stores / forks of the store.

This invalidation is done automatically when using this service for both the CacheHandler and the LegacyNetworkHandler.

ts
store.lifetimes.invalidateRequestsForType(store, 'person');

Parameters

type

string

store

Store

Returns

void

Inherited from

CachePolicy.invalidateRequestsForType


isHardExpired()

ts
isHardExpired(identifier, store): boolean;

Defined in: index.ts:1172

Invoked to determine if the request may be fulfilled from cache if possible.

Note, this is only invoked by the CacheHandler if the request has a cache-key.

If no cache entry is found or the entry is hard expired, the request will be fulfilled from the configured request handlers and the cache will be updated before returning the response.

Parameters

identifier

StableDocumentIdentifier

store

Store

Returns

boolean

true if the request is considered hard expired

Inherited from

CachePolicy.isHardExpired


isSoftExpired()

ts
isSoftExpired(identifier, store): boolean;

Defined in: index.ts:1207

Invoked if isHardExpired is false to determine if the request should be update behind the scenes if cache data is already available.

Note, this is only invoked by the CacheHandler if the request has a cache-key.

If true, the request will be fulfilled from cache while a backgrounded request is made to update the cache via the configured request handlers.

Parameters

identifier

StableDocumentIdentifier

store

Store

Returns

boolean

true if the request is considered soft expired

Inherited from

CachePolicy.isSoftExpired

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