[RFC PATCHv4 05/17] gitweb/lib - Stat-based cache expiration

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Add stat-based cache expiration to file-based GitwebCache::SimpleFileCache.
Contrary to the way other caching interfaces such as Cache::Cache and CHI
do it, the time cache element expires in is _global_ value associated with
cache instance, and is not local property of cache entry.  (Currently cache
entry does not store any metadata associated with entry... which means that
there is no need for serialization / marshalling / freezing and thawing.)
Default expire time is -1, which means never expire.

To check if cache entry is expired, GitwebCache::SimpleFileCache compares
difference between mtime (last modify time) of a cache file and current time
with (global) time to expire.  It is done using CHI-compatibile is_valid()
method.

Add some tests checking that expiring works correctly (on the level of API).

To be implemented (from original patch by J.H.):
* actually using this cache in gitweb, except error pages
* adaptive cache expiration, based on average system load
* optional locking interface, where only one process can update cache
  (using flock)
* server-side progress indicator when waiting for filling cache,
  which in turn requires separating situations (like snapshots and
  other non-HTML responses) where we should not show 'please wait'
  message

Inspired-by-code-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley <warthog9@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
 gitweb/lib/GitwebCache/SimpleFileCache.pm |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 t/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl           |   19 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gitweb/lib/GitwebCache/SimpleFileCache.pm b/gitweb/lib/GitwebCache/SimpleFileCache.pm
index b51a124..91b3373 100644
--- a/gitweb/lib/GitwebCache/SimpleFileCache.pm
+++ b/gitweb/lib/GitwebCache/SimpleFileCache.pm
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ our $DEFAULT_NAMESPACE = '';
 #    The number of subdirectories deep to cache object item.  This should be
 #    large enough that no cache directory has more than a few hundred objects.
 #    Defaults to $DEFAULT_CACHE_DEPTH unless explicitly set.
+#  * 'default_expires_in' (Cache::Cache compatibile),
+#    'expires_in' (CHI compatibile) [seconds]
+#    The expiration time for objects place in the cache.
+#    Defaults to -1 (never expire) if not explicitly set.
 sub new {
 	my ($proto, $p_options_hash_ref) = @_;
 
@@ -64,7 +68,7 @@ sub new {
 	my $self  = {};
 	$self = bless($self, $class);
 
-	my ($root, $depth, $ns);
+	my ($root, $depth, $ns, $expires_in);
 	if (defined $p_options_hash_ref) {
 		$root  =
 			$p_options_hash_ref->{'cache_root'} ||
@@ -73,14 +77,19 @@ sub new {
 			$p_options_hash_ref->{'cache_depth'} ||
 			$p_options_hash_ref->{'depth'};
 		$ns    = $p_options_hash_ref->{'namespace'};
+		$expires_in =
+			$p_options_hash_ref->{'default_expires_in'} ||
+			$p_options_hash_ref->{'expires_in'};
 	}
 	$root  = $DEFAULT_CACHE_ROOT  unless defined($root);
 	$depth = $DEFAULT_CACHE_DEPTH unless defined($depth);
 	$ns    = $DEFAULT_NAMESPACE   unless defined($ns);
+	$expires_in = -1 unless defined($expires_in); # <0 means never
 
 	$self->set_root($root);
 	$self->set_depth($depth);
 	$self->set_namespace($ns);
+	$self->set_expires_in($expires_in);
 
 	return $self;
 }
@@ -91,7 +100,7 @@ sub new {
 # http://perldesignpatterns.com/perldesignpatterns.html#AccessorPattern
 
 # creates get_depth() and set_depth($depth) etc. methods
-foreach my $i (qw(depth root namespace)) {
+foreach my $i (qw(depth root namespace expires_in)) {
 	my $field = $i;
 	no strict 'refs';
 	*{"get_$field"} = sub {
@@ -257,6 +266,31 @@ sub remove {
 		or die "Couldn't remove file '$file': $!";
 }
 
+# $cache->is_valid($key)
+#
+# Returns a boolean indicating whether $key exists in the cache
+# and has not expired (global per-cache 'expires_in').
+sub is_valid {
+	my ($self, $key) = @_;
+
+	my $path = $self->path_to_key($key);
+
+	# does file exists in cache?
+	return 0 unless -f $path;
+	# get its modification time
+	my $mtime = (stat(_))[9] # _ to reuse stat structure used in -f test
+		or die "Couldn't stat file '$path': $!";
+
+	# expire time can be set to never
+	my $expires_in = $self->get_expires_in();
+	return 1 unless (defined $expires_in && $expires_in >= 0);
+
+	# is file expired?
+	my $now = time();
+
+	return (($now - $mtime) < $expires_in);
+}
+
 # Getting and setting
 
 # $cache->set($key, $data);
@@ -280,6 +314,7 @@ sub set {
 sub get {
 	my ($self, $key) = @_;
 
+	return undef unless $self->is_valid($key);
 	my $data = $self->fetch($key)
 		or return undef;
 
@@ -304,7 +339,8 @@ sub compute {
 	return $data;
 }
 
-# end of package GitwebCache::SimpleFileCache;
 1;
+__END__
+# end of package GitwebCache::SimpleFileCache;
 
 
diff --git a/t/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl b/t/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl
index 9242129..b1e9036 100755
--- a/t/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl
+++ b/t/t9503/test_cache_interface.pl
@@ -78,4 +78,23 @@ subtest 'CHI interface' => sub {
 	done_testing();
 };
 
+# Test cache expiration
+#
+subtest 'cache expiration' => sub {
+	$cache->set_expires_in(60*60*24); # set expire time to 1 day
+	cmp_ok($cache->get_expires_in(), '>', 0, '"expires in" is greater than 0');
+	is($cache->get($key), $value,            'get returns cached value (not expired in 1d)');
+
+	$cache->set_expires_in(-1); # set expire time to never expire
+	is($cache->get_expires_in(), -1,         '"expires in" is set to never (-1)');
+	is($cache->get($key), $value,            'get returns cached value (not expired)');
+
+	$cache->set_expires_in(0);
+	is($cache->get_expires_in(),  0,         '"expires in" is set to now (0)');
+	$cache->set($key, $value);
+	ok(!defined($cache->get($key)),          'cache is expired');
+
+	done_testing();
+};
+
 done_testing();
-- 
1.7.0.1