Catalyst, Accessing Cache plugins from Models

djzort has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

friends,

I have a model which talks to a non-database source of data in my catalyst application. It is more or less a manual model which simply extends Catalyst::Model.

I would like to cache via Catalysts Cache plugin's, to hold various data as makes sense to me

Having loaded a cache plugin, the 'cache' method is available on the context object i.e. $c - however the $self object made available to the model's function doesnt seem to contain any methods for accessing the cache.

Having read through the relevant pod at http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Catalyst-Plugin-Cache-0.12/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Cache.pm it explains the controller usage, but doesnt mention if models can also use the cache

The DBIc model makes use of cache plugins, but it's example has proved to be unhelpful

Can someone lend me their insight?

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Re: Catalyst, Accessing Cache plugins from Models by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 21, 2014 at 16:29 UTC
Take a look at Catalyst::Component::ACCEPT_CONTEXT and Catalyst::Component::InstancePerContext. Needing these things tends to point to design mistakes, but not always. If you ping the DBIC #irc or mailing list you might get help with caching there.	[reply]
Re: Catalyst, Accessing Cache plugins from Models by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2014 at 07:57 UTC
it explains the controller usage, but doesnt mention if models can also use the cache Well, the controller gets a cache ... the model doesn't get a cache ... give the model a reference to controller? Or use CHI? The DBIc model makes use of cache plugins, but it's example has proved to be unhelpful Where can I see that example?	[reply]
Re^2: Catalyst, Accessing Cache plugins from Models by djzort (Sexton) on Mar 23, 2014 at 06:24 UTC
see also https://metacpan.org/pod/Catalyst::TraitFor::Model::DBIC::Schema::Caching	[reply]
Re^3: Catalyst, Accessing Cache plugins from Models by Anonymous Monk on Mar 23, 2014 at 09:19 UTC
Ok, next step look inside :) https://metacpan.org/source/ILMARI/Catalyst-Model-DBIC-Schema-0.62/lib/Catalyst/TraitFor/Model/DBIC/Schema/Caching.pm What you see is getting a reference to the controller object, and getting a reference from the controller to the cache object, and storing the reference to the cache object `use namespace::autoclean; use Moose::Role; before ACCEPT_CONTEXT => sub { my ($self, $c) = @_; ... $self->schema->default_resultset_attributes({ cache_object => $c->cache }); }` [download] So Your Mother is onto something, all I can say is EEEEW	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Catalyst, Accessing Cache plugins from Models by djzort (Sexton) on Mar 25, 2014 at 03:16 UTC
Re^5: Catalyst, Accessing Cache plugins from Models by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 25, 2014 at 03:57 UTC