option to disable all caching

[leon]

I've been using angular-cache for a while now and I'm really liking it!

Though sometimes I feel the need to disable it totally to debug the backend.

Could we add a option that can be set via .config() that totally disables the plugin. That way it would be easy to just change a boolean in the app config to run without caching.

What do you think?

[jmdobry]

Ya, I think something like that would be useful.

[jmdobry]

How about adding the following to the API?

• AngularCache#disable()
• AngularCache#enable()
• AngularCache#isEnabled()

[leon]

@jmdobry Looks good!

[jmdobry]

@leon Here's what I decided:

• The options object ($angularCacheFactory(), AngularCache#setOptions(), and $angularCacheFactoryProvider.setCacheDefaults()) now accepts a disabled field, which can be set to true and defaults to false.
• $angularCacheFactory.enableAll() will enable any disabled caches.
• $angularCacheFactory.disableAll() will disable all caches.
• A disabled cache will operate as normal, except AngularCache#get() and AngularCache#put() will both immediately return undefined instead of performing their normal functions.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

[leon]

@jmdobry

'use strict'

angular.module('app', ['jmdobry.angular-cache]).config(function ($angularCacheFactoryProvider) {

  $angularCacheFactoryProvider.setCacheDefaults({
    disabled: true
  });

});

Have I understood it correctly that by setting the disabled to true it will bypass the whole cache and that all the calls will go through to the backend?

[jmdobry]

@leon That is correct.

'use strict';

angular.module('app', ['jmdobry.angular-cache']).config(function ($angularCacheFactoryProvider) {
  $angularCacheFactoryProvider.setCacheDefaults({
    disabled: true
  });
}).run(function ($angularCacheFactory) {
  var cache = $angularCacheFactory('cache');

  cache.put('1234', 'item');

  cache.get('1234'); // undefined

  cache.setOptions({ disabled: false });

  cache.put('1234', 'item');

  cache.get('1234'); // 'item'
});

[jmdobry]

@leon https://github.com/jmdobry/angular-cache/releases/tag/2.3.0

[leon]

@jmdobry Awesome!