Libcache

A Lightweight in-memory key:value cache library for Go.

Introduction

Caches are tremendously useful in a wide variety of use cases.
you should consider using caches when a value is expensive to compute or retrieve,
and you will need its value on a certain input more than once.
libcache is here to help with that.

Libcache are local to a single run of your application.
They do not store data in files, or on outside servers.

Libcache previously an go-guardian package and designed to be a companion with it.
While both can operate completely independently.

Features

Rich caching API
Maximum cache size enforcement
Default cache TTL (time-to-live) as well as custom TTLs per cache entry
Thread safe as well as non-thread safe
Event-Driven callbacks (Notify)
Dynamic cache creation
Multiple cache replacement policies:
- FIFO (First In, First Out)
- LIFO (Last In, First Out)
- LRU (Least Recently Used)
- MRU (Most Recently Used)
- LFU (Least Frequently Used)
- ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache)

Quickstart

Installing

Using libcache is easy. First, use go get to install the latest version of the library.

go get github.com/shaj13/libcache

Next, include libcache in your application:

import (
    _ "github.com/shaj13/libcache/<desired-replacement-policy>"
    "github.com/shaj13/libcache"
)

Examples

Note: All examples use the LRU cache replacement policy for simplicity, any other cache replacement policy can be applied to them.

Basic

package main 
import (
    "fmt" 

    "github.com/shaj13/libcache"
    _ "github.com/shaj13/libcache/lru"
)

func main() {
    size := 10
    cache := libcache.LRU.NewUnsafe(size)
    for i:= 0 ; i < 10 ; i++ {
        cache.Store(i, i)
    }
    fmt.Println(cache.Load(0)) // nil, false  
    fmt.Println(cache.Load(1)) // 1, true
}

Thread Safe

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/shaj13/libcache"
	_ "github.com/shaj13/libcache/lru"
)

func main() {
	done := make(chan struct{})

	f := func(c libcache.Cache) {
		for !c.Contains(5) {
		}
		fmt.Println(c.Load(5)) // 5, true
		done <- struct{}{}
	}

	size := 10
	cache := libcache.LRU.New(size)
	go f(cache)

	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
		cache.Store(i, i)
	}

	<-done
}

Unlimited Size

zero capacity means cache has no limit and replacement policy turned off.

package main 
import (
    "fmt" 

    "github.com/shaj13/libcache"
    _ "github.com/shaj13/libcache/lru"
)

func main() {
	cache := libcache.LRU.New(0)
    for i:= 0 ; i < 100000 ; i++ {
        cache.Store(i, i)
    }
	fmt.Println(cache.Load(55555))
}

TTL

package main 
import (
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"github.com/shaj13/libcache"
	_ "github.com/shaj13/libcache/lru"
)

func main() {
	cache := libcache.LRU.New(10)
	cache.SetTTL(time.Second) // default TTL 
	
	for i:= 0 ; i < 10 ; i++ {
        cache.Store(i, i)
	}
	fmt.Println(cache.Expiry(1))

	cache.StoreWithTTL("mykey", "value", time.Hour) // TTL per cache entry 
	fmt.Println(cache.Expiry("mykey"))

}

Events

package main 
import (
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"github.com/shaj13/libcache"
	_ "github.com/shaj13/libcache/lru"
)

func main() {
	cache := libcache.LRU.New(10)

	eventc := make(chan libcache.Event, 10)
	cache.Notify(eventc)
	defer cache.Ignore(eventc)

	go func() {
		for {
			e := <-eventc
			fmt.Printf("Operation %s on Key %v \n", e.Op, e.Key)
		}
	}()

	cache.Load(1)
	cache.Store(1, 1)
	cache.Peek(1)
	cache.Delete(1)
}

GC

package main 
import (
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"github.com/shaj13/libcache"
	_ "github.com/shaj13/libcache/lru"
)

func main() {
	cache := libcache.LRU.New(10)

	eventc := make(chan libcache.Event, 10)
	cache.Notify(eventc)
	defer cache.Ignore(eventc)

	go func() {
		for {
			e := <-eventc
			fmt.Printf("Operation %s on Key %v \n", e.Op, e.Key)
		}
	}()

	ctx, cacnel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), time.Second*2)
	defer cacnel()

	cache.StoreWithTTL(1, 1, time.Second)

	// GC is a long running function, evict expired items from the cache on time.
	libcache.GC(ctx, cache)

	cache.StoreWithTTL(1, 1, time.Second)
	time.Sleep(time.Second)

	// Runs a garbage collection and blocks the caller until the garbage collection is complete
	cache.GC()
}

Contributing

Fork it
Download your fork to your PC (git clone https://github.com/your_username/libcache && cd libcache)
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Make changes and add them (git add .)
Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new pull request

License

Libcache is released under the MIT license. See LICENSE