Clearing specific cache in Django

Question

I am using view caching for a django project.

It says the cache uses the URL as the key, so I\'m wondering how to clear the cache of one of the keys if a user update

Answer 1

From django cache docs, it says that cache.delete('key') should be enough. So, it comes to my mind two problems you might have:

1. Your imports are not correct, remember that you have to import cache from the django.core.cache module:

   from django.core.cache import cache
   
   # ...
   cache.delete('my_url')
   

2. The key you're using is not correct (maybe it uses the full url, including "domain.com"). To check which is the exact url you can go into your shell:

   $ ./manage.py shell
   >>> from django.core.cache import cache
   >>> cache.has_key('/post/1234/')
   # this will return True or False, whether the key was found or not
   # if False, keep trying until you find the correct key ...
   >>> cache.has_key('domain.com/post/1234/') # including domain.com ?
   >>> cache.has_key('www.domain.com/post/1234/') # including www.domain.com ?
   >>> cache.has_key('/post/1234') # without the trailing / ?