Some more thoughts… You could also track the time at which you got it, and then on the page where it’s shown, you could add a flag of some sort if the date is older than the 2 minutes, if knowing that may be important to your users.
Another thing is that rather than rely on CFcache to cache things, you can be more explicit (and help better manage the cache) by using CF9+’s new caching functions. So you could check the time, decide whether to retrieve from the cache or not, and if so then store it anew in the cache. There are then other caching functions that would let you look at what was cached, to manage things (which may help you address the concerns Troy had). Those can be used whether the cache was written to via cfcache or the newer caching functions. Finally, whether you go with either the idea to store the result in a file (Troy’s idea) or a variable or table (Cam’s idea) or the cache, there’s still something else you may want to consider, Chris, if you’re not familiar with it. You could either store the RSS feed or go ahead and write the formatted HTML into wherever you’d be persisting things, using CFSAVECONTENT. Just would allow you then to refer to that result quickly in your page where you’d “show” it finally. Some may debate if that’s confusing our “view” and your “model”. I’ll leave others to debate that if they want. Just wanted you to know it was an option if it may help. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Childress Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 10:27 AM To: discussion@acfug.org; Chris Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Using caching and threading to load a page quickly I'd load the RSS feed via a scheduled task and save it someplace like the application scope or a database table. Don't make your homepage do any of that work. -Cameron
