[Zope-PAS] PAS Caching (sucks)

[Willi Langenberger]

According to Chris McDonough:
> On Jul 29, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> > I personally don't see any need to have caching in plugins  
> > themselves. Instead, caching should be applied at the "gateway"  
> > into the user folder, where it emits user objects. These user  
> > objects should be cached as a whole. I am envisioning a thread- 
> > independent cache (meaning no redundant lookups in each thread)  
> > that is configured using a caching ZMI tab on the PAS instance. No  
> > more Cache tab everywhere and no more RAM cache managers to  
> > configure. And no more contortions in plugin code to utilize  
> > ZCacheable.

+1 on caching in the "gateway".

> > Who's got an opinion?
> 
> Hmmm..  PAS' trunk PluggableAutheService class already inherits from  
> OFS.Cacheable and its _findUser method uses the available cache, so  

_findUser can be configured to use a cache, but _extractUserIds can
not. It would be cool if also _extractUserIds could use a cache, since
the authentication step takes place in there.

> You do still need to configure the PAS instance to actually do  
> caching.  But this seems OK.  I think you can just ignore caching  
> when creating plugins if this is all you want.  Even though the  
> ZCacheable API sucks, the indirection here is good.  I wouldn't want  
> PAS itself to have a hard-wired caching implementation in it, and I  
> don't mind associating the PAS instance with a cache manager.

Nevertheless i think to PAS Caching needs improvement. Currently there
is no way to cache the authentication step in the "gateway".


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