This is a front end cache implementation for Django Tastypie. This isn't an ideal solution as putting a front end HTTP cache such as Varnish is much more appropriate. However, I've found that this solution works quite well to reduce response time for incoming API requests. The premise is fairly simple. We cache the entire serialized response for a period of time. When new requests come in we check the cache for an existing computed key and if found return that serialized response. Due to caching the serialized response, several methods inside the Resource object had to be overridden.

To utilize the cache resource, you can either download the mixin, or install from source

pip install git+git://github.com/dstegelman/django-tastypie-cache.git@master

Import the cache mixin and inherit it before the Resource

class EventResource(CachedResource, Resource):

There are two settings used in this mixin.

API_CACHE_ENABLE = True

This setting enables the cache altogether. It is disabled by default, to enable caching you'll need to set this to True.

API_CACHE_LENGTH = 900

This setting dictates the length of the cache. By default its set to 900.

• Derek Stegelman https://github.com/dstegelman
• Garrett Pennington https://github.com/gpennington