web/httpcache.py
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:19:24 +0200
changeset 5223 6abd6e3599f4
parent 5155 1dea6e0fdfc1
child 5244 5467674ad101
permissions -rw-r--r--
#773448: refactor session and 'no connection' handling, by introducing proper web session. We should now be able to see page even when no anon is configured, and be redirected to the login form as soon as one tries to do a query.

"""HTTP cache managers


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"""
__docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"

from time import mktime
from datetime import datetime

# time delta usable to convert localized time to GMT time
GMTOFFSET = - (datetime.now() - datetime.utcnow())

class NoHTTPCacheManager(object):
    """default cache manager: set no-cache cache control policy"""
    def __init__(self, view):
        self.view = view
        self.req = view._cw
        self.cw_rset = view.cw_rset

    def set_headers(self):
        self.req.set_header('Cache-control', 'no-cache')


class MaxAgeHTTPCacheManager(NoHTTPCacheManager):
    """max-age cache manager: set max-age cache control policy, with max-age
    specified with the `cache_max_age` attribute of the view
    """
    def set_headers(self):
        self.req.set_header('Cache-control',
                            'max-age=%s' % self.view.cache_max_age)


class EtagHTTPCacheManager(NoHTTPCacheManager):
    """etag based cache manager for startup views

    * etag is generated using the view name and the user's groups
    * set policy to 'must-revalidate' and expires to the current time to force
      revalidation on each request
    """

    def etag(self):
        if self.req.cnx is None:
            return self.view.__regid__
        return self.view.__regid__ + '/' + ','.join(sorted(self.req.user.groups))

    def max_age(self):
        # 0 to actually force revalidation
        return 0

    def last_modified(self):
        """return view's last modified GMT time"""
        return self.view.last_modified()

    def set_headers(self):
        req = self.req
        try:
            req.set_header('Etag', '"%s"' % self.etag())
        except NoEtag:
            self.req.set_header('Cache-control', 'no-cache')
            return
        req.set_header('Cache-control',
                       'must-revalidate;max-age=%s' % self.max_age())
        mdate = self.last_modified()
        # use a timestamp, not a formatted raw header, and let
        # the front-end correctly generate it
        # ("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT" return localized date that
        # twisted don't parse correctly)
        req.set_header('Last-modified', mktime(mdate.timetuple()), raw=False)


class EntityHTTPCacheManager(EtagHTTPCacheManager):
    """etag based cache manager for view displaying a single entity

    * etag is generated using entity's eid, the view name and the user's groups
    * get last modified time from the entity definition (this may not be the
      entity's modification time since a view may include some related entities
      with a modification time to consider) using the `last_modified` method
    """
    def etag(self):
        if self.cw_rset is None or len(self.cw_rset) == 0: # entity startup view for instance
            return super(EntityHTTPCacheManager, self).etag()
        if len(self.cw_rset) > 1:
            raise NoEtag()
        etag = super(EntityHTTPCacheManager, self).etag()
        eid = self.cw_rset[0][0]
        if self.req.user.owns(eid):
            etag += ',owners'
        return str(eid) + '/' + etag


class NoEtag(Exception):
    """an etag can't be generated"""

__all__ = ('GMTOFFSET',
           'NoHTTPCacheManager', 'MaxAgeHTTPCacheManager',
           'EtagHTTPCacheManager', 'EntityHTTPCacheManager')

# monkey patching, so view doesn't depends on this module and we have all
# http cache related logic here

from cubicweb import view as viewmod

def set_http_cache_headers(self):
    self.http_cache_manager(self).set_headers()
viewmod.View.set_http_cache_headers = set_http_cache_headers


def last_modified(self):
    """return the date/time where this view should be considered as
    modified. Take care of possible related objects modifications.

    /!\ must return GMT time /!\
    """
    # XXX check view module's file modification time in dev mod ?
    ctime = datetime.utcnow()
    if self.cache_max_age:
        mtime = self._cw.header_if_modified_since()
        if mtime:
            tdelta = (ctime - mtime)
            if tdelta.days * 24*60*60 + tdelta.seconds <= self.cache_max_age:
                return mtime
    # mtime = ctime will force page rerendering
    return ctime
viewmod.View.last_modified = last_modified


# configure default caching
viewmod.View.http_cache_manager = NoHTTPCacheManager
# max-age=0 to actually force revalidation when needed
viewmod.View.cache_max_age = 0

viewmod.StartupView.http_cache_manager = MaxAgeHTTPCacheManager
viewmod.StartupView.cache_max_age = 60*60*2 # stay in http cache for 2 hours by default