Help Request: Automatic caching doesn't seem to be working, but manual does

[ShmuelTreiger]

Hi! Thank you for the tool and sorry to bother you. Having an issue:

My settings:

CACHEOPS_DEFAULTS = {
    'timeout': 60*10
}

CACHEOPS = {
    'domain_settings.*': {},
    '*.*': {},
}

CACHEOPS_LRU = True
CACHEOPS_DEGRADE_ON_FAILURE = True

Test script:

import django
from django.db import connection

django.setup()

from domain_settings.models import Domains

print(len(connection.queries))
d = Domains.objects.cache()
print(len(connection.queries))
print(d.get(domain="green.com"))
print(len(connection.queries))
print(d.get(domain="green.com"))

print(len(connection.queries))
print(Domains.objects.all().cache())
print(len(connection.queries))

When I include the explicit .cache() calls, these work and each print(len(connection.queries)) prints 0 the second time I run the script. When I remove them, nothing gets cached and each query lengthens connection.queries no matter how many times I run the script. I looked through the tests and they always use the .cache(). Am I supposed to use it? The automatic vs manual distinction made me thing not. Do I have something set up incorrectly?

I'm using version 5.0 if that matters. Inherited a legacy project and if I can avoid it, I don't want to upgrade the cacheops version until I better understand what's going on and how we're using it.

[Suor]

You didn't include any ops to cache, like get or fetch. Configuration with empty ops only does manual caching. There are several commented examples in CACHEOPS setting in README.

[ShmuelTreiger]

Sorry about that. Completely misunderstood the read me. Thank you.