Is your AJAX query POST or GET query? Because as you may know, POST queries are not cached, GET queries are.
Note that if you're still using large pieces of JSON data, upstream caches are not used (data is always sent from Django) which makes some extra load on Django app. > Thanks for you reply. I'm away from my coding machine, so I'll just answer > a part of your question -- > > When I use the cache decorator in a view, I expect that as long as cache is > valid, the code in the view > does not get executed. And that's what I see when rendering a template with > some little context attached to it. However, in a different view adorned > with same decorator, which does not use a template and just wraps > HttpResponse around JSON (which is plain ASCII after all) I see that the > whole database glue shebang inside the view comes into motion every time I > hit the view, any time. This correlates with the content of the > CACHE_BACKEND (which in my case is file storage) -- in the former case, I > have cryptic little dirs sprouting up, in the latter I see nothing. I think > that proves the general picture i.e. cache not working -- am I wrong? > > jtiai wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm trying to use native caching in Django as per > >> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/cache/ > >> > >> I followed the setup procedure to the tee (it's not hard, of course). > >> What > >> I observe is that my app caches only views that deliver HTML. Since my > >> application is heavily AJAX, that's not what I want -- I want to cache > >> JSON -- but it doesn't work! > > > > It doesn't work how? How you observed caching? > > > >> Any hints how I can make it work? > >> > >> I can always code it up myself (I have, actually), but I try to avoid > >> that. > > > > View code would be helpful and don't forget the caching parts. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
