open-consul/agent/cache/request.go
Paul Banks 5b0d4db6bc Support Agent Caching for Service Discovery Results (#4541)
* Add cache types for catalog/services and health/services and basic test that caching works

* Support non-blocking cache types with Cache-Control semantics.

* Update API docs to include caching info for every endpoint.

* Comment updates per PR feedback.

* Add note on caching to the 10,000 foot view on the architecture page to make the new data path more clear.

* Document prepared query staleness quirk and force all background requests to AllowStale so we can spread service discovery load across servers.
2018-10-10 16:55:34 +01:00

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package cache
import (
"time"
)
// Request is a cacheable request.
//
// This interface is typically implemented by request structures in
// the agent/structs package.
type Request interface {
// CacheInfo returns information used for caching this request.
CacheInfo() RequestInfo
}
// RequestInfo represents cache information for a request. The caching
// framework uses this to control the behavior of caching and to determine
// cacheability.
type RequestInfo struct {
// Key is a unique cache key for this request. This key should
// be globally unique to identify this request, since any conflicting
// cache keys could result in invalid data being returned from the cache.
// The Key does not need to include ACL or DC information, since the
// cache already partitions by these values prior to using this key.
Key string
// Token is the ACL token associated with this request.
//
// Datacenter is the datacenter that the request is targeting.
//
// Both of these values are used to partition the cache. The cache framework
// today partitions data on these values to simplify behavior: by
// partitioning ACL tokens, the cache doesn't need to be smart about
// filtering results. By filtering datacenter results, the cache can
// service the multi-DC nature of Consul. This comes at the expense of
// working set size, but in general the effect is minimal.
Token string
Datacenter string
// MinIndex is the minimum index being queried. This is used to
// determine if we already have data satisfying the query or if we need
// to block until new data is available. If no index is available, the
// default value (zero) is acceptable.
MinIndex uint64
// Timeout is the timeout for waiting on a blocking query. When the
// timeout is reached, the last known value is returned (or maybe nil
// if there was no prior value). This "last known value" behavior matches
// normal Consul blocking queries.
Timeout time.Duration
// MaxAge if set limits how stale a cache entry can be. If it is non-zero and
// there is an entry in cache that is older than specified, it is treated as a
// cache miss and re-fetched. It is ignored for cachetypes with Refresh =
// true.
MaxAge time.Duration
// MustRevalidate forces a new lookup of the cache even if there is an
// existing one that has not expired. It is implied by HTTP requests with
// `Cache-Control: max-age=0` but we can't distinguish that case from the
// unset case for MaxAge. Later we may support revalidating the index without
// a full re-fetch but for now the only option is to refetch. It is ignored
// for cachetypes with Refresh = true.
MustRevalidate bool
}