Disable caching in gadgets.io.makeRequest() -- possible bug?

[Cheler, Vinay (LNG-DAY)]

Hi,

We are using Shindig 2.0.0, and one of the requirements is to disable caching 
when using makeRequest API. So we appended nocache=1 to the url before invoking 
that API, but we noticed it was still caching the response.

Digging thru the code I found that  MakeRequestHandler.java is looking for a 
request parameter called "nocache" :

req.setIgnoreCache("1".equals(request.getParameter(Param.NO_CACHE.getKey())));

However on the client side in the io.js file (part of core.io feature),  
nocache is not being sent at all as part of the paramData in the makeRequest 
function:
      var paramData = {
        url: url,
        httpMethod : httpMethod,
        headers: gadgets.io.encodeValues(headers, false),
        postData : params.POST_DATA || "",
        authz : auth || "",
        st : st || "",
        contentType : params.CONTENT_TYPE || "TEXT",
        numEntries : params.NUM_ENTRIES || "3",
        getSummaries : !!params.GET_SUMMARIES,
        signOwner : signOwner,
        signViewer : signViewer,
        gadget : urlParams.url,
        container : urlParams.container || urlParams.synd || "default",
        // should we bypass gadget spec cache (e.g. to read OAuth provider URLs)
        bypassSpecCache : gadgets.util.getUrlParameters().nocache || "",
        // nocache added by me
        nocache : gadgets.util.getUrlParameters().nocache || "",
        getFullHeaders : !!params.GET_FULL_HEADERS
      };

When I added "nocache" as above, it worked, meaning it did not cache the 
response.

Can somebody please validate if this indeed is a bug, or did I miss something? 
Or is there any other alternative?

Thanks
Vinay