www/py-beaker 1.13.0 DragonFly

Beaker is a web session and general caching library that includes WSGI middleware for use in web applications.

As a general caching library, Beaker can handle storing for various times any Python object that can be pickled with optional back-ends on a fine-grained basis.

Features

• Fast, robust performance
• Multiple reader/single writer lock system to avoid duplicate simultaneous cache creation
• Cache back-ends include dbm, file, memory, memcached, Redis, MongoDB, and database (Using SQLAlchemy for multiple-db vendor support)
• Signed cookies to prevent session hijacking/spoofing
• Cookie-only sessions to remove the need for a db or file backend (ideal for clustered systems)
• Extensible Container object to support new back-ends
• Caches can be divided into namespaces (to represent templates, objects, etc.) then keyed for different copies
• Create functions for automatic call-backs to create new cache copies after expiration
• Fine-grained toggling of back-ends, keys, and expiration per Cache object