jessesongok_django_cache_middleware

Django Middleware that takes urls from the settings file and caches them

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

- Django
- django-redis 
- Redis 
- loadtest

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development env running

Install redis on to your environment (sudo apt install redis-server && nmp install -g loadtest )

#Setup

1. Activate the virtual environment and install the project requirements.

- source venv/bin/activate
 
- pip install django
 
- pip install django-redis
 
- pip install djangorestframework

2. Clone the repository

- git clone https://github.com/songokjesse/jessesongok_django_cache_middleware.git
- cd jessesongok_django_cache_middleware

3. Migrations

- python manage.py migrate

4. Create superuser

- python manage.py createsuperuser

Configuring Redis on setting.py

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django_redis.cache.RedisCache',
        'LOCATION': 'redis://127.0.0.1:6379/',  #<== "enter your redis setting
        'OPTIONS': {
            'CLIENT_CLASS': 'django_redis.client.DefaultClient',
        }
    }
}

5. Run Server

- python manage.py runserver

6. Access the admin dashboard using

- http://127.0.0.0:8000/admin

7. Access the REST API using

- http://127.0.0.0:8000/api/v1/

8. Test the cache middleware

- loadtest -n 100 -k  http://localhost:8000/api/v1/test/