How to do persistent caching in golang?

by elisha_langworth , in category: Third Party Scripts , 15 days ago

How to do persistent caching in golang?

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by hal.littel , 14 days ago

@elisha_langworth 

In Go, you can achieve persistent caching by using a key-value store package such as "golang.org/x/exp/inmem" or a third-party library like "github.com/go-redis/redis". Here is an example using the "golang.org/x/exp/inmem" package:

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package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "time"
    "golang.org/x/exp/inmem"
)

func main() {
    // Create an in-memory cache with a TTL of 1 minute
    cache := inmem.NewWithTTL(time.Minute)

    // Save data to the cache
    cache.Set("key", "value")

    // Retrieve data from the cache
    value, found := cache.Get("key")
    if found {
        fmt.Println("Value:", value)
    } else {
        fmt.Println("Value not found in cache")
    }

    // Wait for 2 minutes
    time.Sleep(2 * time.Minute)

    // Check if the data has expired
    _, found = cache.Get("key")
    if found {
        fmt.Println("Value still in cache")
    } else {
        fmt.Println("Value expired")
    }
}


This example demonstrates how to create an in-memory cache with a TTL of 1 minute using the "golang.org/x/exp/inmem" package. You can use a similar approach with other key-value store packages to implement persistent caching in Go.