actix-cache

Actix-Cache framework development moved to the Hitbox repository. Actix-Cache is not supported now.

Actix cache is a proxy actor and infrastructure for asynchronous and clear cache interaction for Actix actor and Actix-web frameworks.

Features

• Async/Sync cache backend support.
• Dogpile effect prevention.
• Stale cache mechanics.
• Automatic cache key generation.
• Detailed Prometheus metrics out of the box.

Backend implementations

At this time supported or planned next cache backend implementation:

• Redis backend (actix-cache-redis)
• In-memory backend

Feature flags

• redis - Enabled by default. Add support for redis backend.
• derive - Support for Cacheable trait derive macros.
• metrics - Support for Prometheus metrics.

Example

Dependencies:

[dependencies]
actix-cache = "0.2"

Code:

First of all, you should derive Cacheable trait for your actix Message:

NOTE: Default cache key implementation based on serde_qs crate and have some restrictions.

use actix::prelude::*;
use actix_cache::Cacheable; // With features=["derive"]
use actix_derive::Message;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
struct Pong;

#[derive(Message, Cacheable, Serialize)]
#[rtype(result = "Result<Pong, ()>")]
struct Ping {
    id: i32,
}

Or implement that trait manually:

use actix_cache::{Cacheable, CacheError};

struct Ping { id: i32 }

impl Cacheable for Ping {
    fn cache_message_key(&self) -> Result<String, CacheError> {
        Ok(format!("{}::{}", self.cache_key_prefix(), self.id))
    }
    fn cache_key_prefix(&self) -> String { "Ping".to_owned() }
}

Next step is to instantiate CacheActor with default backend:

use actix::prelude::*;
use actix_cache::{CacheError, Cache};

#[actix_rt::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), CacheError> {
    let cache = Cache::new()
        .await?
        .start();
   Ok(())
}

And the last step is using cache in your code (actix-web handler for example). This full example and other examples you can see on github.com

use actix::prelude::*;
use actix_web::{web, App, HttpResponse, HttpServer, Responder};
use actix_cache::{Cache, Cacheable};
use serde::Serialize;

struct FibonacciActor;

impl Actor for FibonacciActor { type Context = Context<Self>; }

#[derive(Message, Cacheable, Serialize)]
#[rtype(result = "u64")]
struct GetNumber {
    number: u8
}

impl Handler<GetNumber> for FibonacciActor {
    type Result = <GetNumber as Message>::Result;

    fn handle(&mut self, msg: GetNumber, _ctx: &mut Self::Context) -> Self::Result {
        42
    }
}

async fn index(
    fib: web::Data<Addr<FibonacciActor>>,
    cache: web::Data<Addr<Cache>>
) -> impl Responder {
    let query = GetNumber { number: 40 };
    let number = cache
        .send(query.into_cache(&fib))
        .await
        .unwrap()
        .unwrap();
    HttpResponse::Ok().body(format!("Generate Fibonacci number {}", number))
}