Allow to cache any objects and arrays, not only strings

[stanishevsky]

I think this class can be much more useful if we can cache any kinds of objects. Just let's store serialized variable, and unserialize it upon cache access.

[rubenflush]

Also, there needs to be a way to remove a file from cache.

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:22:49 -0800
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Subject: [Cache] Allow to cache any objects and arrays, not only strings (#17)

I think this class can be much more useful if we can cache any kinds of objects. Just let's store serialized variable, and unserialize it upon cache access.

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Allow to cache any objects and arrays, not only strings

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Cache.php
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Patch Links:

https://github.com/Gregwar/Cache/pull/17.patch
https://github.com/Gregwar/Cache/pull/17.diff

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[Gregwar]

Hello

First, you are doing two things simultaneously, serializing and rehashing filenames, moreover you breaks the unit tests

Regarding serializing/unserializing, I don't think this should be done this way. This system should be useable for caching images or generated pages. Always serializing data would be both useless and overhead for many use cases.

You can add helpers that would have other names like getObject to achieve this

Concerning file hashing, I don't get the point of making it in the cache system, calling sha1 or another logic that hashes before asking the cache is a matter of seconds

thanks for your suggestions

[garygreen]

-1 to this. It should be down to the developer to serialize (in the format they want) and not up to the cacher to make these decisions.