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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

The per-site cache


Once the cache is set up, the simplest way to use caching is to cache your entire site. You'll need to add 'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware' and 'django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware' to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting, as in this example:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [ 
    'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware', 
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 
    'django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware', 
] 

Note

No, that's not a typo: the update middleware must be first in the list, and the fetch middleware must be last. The details are a bit obscure, but see Order of MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES) in the next chapter if you'd like the full story.

Then, add the following required settings to your Django settings file:

  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS: The cache alias to use for storage.

  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS: The number of seconds each page should be cached.

  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX-: If the cache is shared across multiple...