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diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst b/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst index d83582dee..783f2caaa 100644 --- a/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst +++ b/docs/whatsnew-1.1.rst @@ -94,6 +94,57 @@ Default HTTP Exception View Minor Feature Additions ----------------------- +- A new value ``http_cache`` can be used as a :term:`view configuration` + parameter. + + When you supply an ``http_cache`` value to a view configuration, the + ``Expires`` and ``Cache-Control`` headers of a response generated by the + associated view callable are modified. The value for ``http_cache`` may be + one of the following: + + - A nonzero integer. If it's a nonzero integer, it's treated as a number + of seconds. This number of seconds will be used to compute the + ``Expires`` header and the ``Cache-Control: max-age`` parameter of + responses to requests which call this view. For example: + ``http_cache=3600`` instructs the requesting browser to 'cache this + response for an hour, please'. + + - A ``datetime.timedelta`` instance. If it's a ``datetime.timedelta`` + instance, it will be converted into a number of seconds, and that number + of seconds will be used to compute the ``Expires`` header and the + ``Cache-Control: max-age`` parameter of responses to requests which call + this view. For example: ``http_cache=datetime.timedelta(days=1)`` + instructs the requesting browser to 'cache this response for a day, + please'. + + - Zero (``0``). If the value is zero, the ``Cache-Control`` and + ``Expires`` headers present in all responses from this view will be + composed such that client browser cache (and any intermediate caches) are + instructed to never cache the response. + + - A two-tuple. If it's a two tuple (e.g. ``http_cache=(1, + {'public':True})``), the first value in the tuple may be a nonzero + integer or a ``datetime.timedelta`` instance; in either case this value + will be used as the number of seconds to cache the response. The second + value in the tuple must be a dictionary. The values present in the + dictionary will be used as input to the ``Cache-Control`` response + header. For example: ``http_cache=(3600, {'public':True})`` means 'cache + for an hour, and add ``public`` to the Cache-Control header of the + response'. All keys and values supported by the + ``webob.cachecontrol.CacheControl`` interface may be added to the + dictionary. Supplying ``{'public':True}`` is equivalent to calling + ``response.cache_control.public = True``. + + Providing a non-tuple value as ``http_cache`` is equivalent to calling + ``response.cache_expires(value)`` within your view's body. + + Providing a two-tuple value as ``http_cache`` is equivalent to calling + ``response.cache_expires(value[0], **value[1])`` within your view's body. + + If you wish to avoid influencing, the ``Expires`` header, and instead wish + to only influence ``Cache-Control`` headers, pass a tuple as ``http_cache`` + with the first element of ``None``, e.g.: ``(None, {'public':True})``. + - A `JSONP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP>`_ renderer. See :ref:`jsonp_renderer` for more details. |