> -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Leggett > Sent: Montag, 13. September 2010 16:35 > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: mod_cache: store_body() bites off more than it can chew > > On 13 Sep 2010, at 4:18 PM, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group wrote: > > > It is not a problem for mod_disk_cache as you say, but > > I guess he meant for 3rd party providers that could only deliver > > the cached responses via heap buckets. > > The cache provider itself puts the bucket in the brigade, and > has the > power to put any bucket into the brigade it likes, including > it's own > custom developed buckets. The fact that brigades become heap buckets > when read is a property of our bucket brigades, they aren't a > restriction applied by the cache. > > For example, in the large disk cache patch, a special bucket was > invented that represented a file that was not be completely present, > and that blocked waiting for more data if the in-flight cache > file was > not yet all there. There was no need to change the API to > support this > scenario, the cache just dropped the special bucket into the brigade > and it was done.
Yeah, but in a tricky way, which is absolutely fine and cool if you cannot change the API, but the question is: Is this the way providers should go and does the API looks like as it should? Regards Rüdiger
