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DiskCache Development

:doc:`DiskCache <index>` development is lead by Grant Jenks <[email protected]>.

Collaborators Welcome

  1. Search issues or open a new issue to start a discussion around a bug.
  2. Fork the GitHub repository and make your changes in a new branch.
  3. Write a test which shows the bug was fixed.
  4. Send a pull request and message the development lead until its merged and published.

Requests for Contributions

  1. Command-line interface. Operations to support: get, set, store, delete, expire, evict, clear, path, check, stats.
  2. Django admin interface for cache stats and interaction.
  3. Cache stampede barrier (source prototype in repo).
  4. API Compatibility
    1. Shelf interface
    2. DBM interface
  5. Backend Compatibility
    1. Flask-Caching
    2. Beaker
    3. dogpile.cache

Get the Code

:doc:`DiskCache <index>` is actively developed in a GitHub repository.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache.git

Download the tarball:

$ curl -OL https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache/tarball/master

Or, download the zipball:

$ curl -OL https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache/zipball/master

Installing Dependencies

Install development dependencies with pip:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

All packages for running tests will be installed.

Additional packages like pylibmc and redis along with their server counterparts are necessary for some benchmarks.

Testing

:doc:`DiskCache <index>` currently tests against five versions of Python:

  • CPython 3.5
  • CPython 3.6
  • CPython 3.7
  • CPython 3.8

Testing uses tox. If you don't want to install all the development requirements, then, after downloading, you can simply run:

$ python setup.py test

The test argument to setup.py will download a minimal testing infrastructure and run the tests.

$ tox
GLOB sdist-make: python-diskcache/setup.py
py27 inst-nodeps: python-diskcache/.tox/dist/diskcache-0.9.0.zip
py27 runtests: PYTHONHASHSEED='3527394681'
py27 runtests: commands[0] | nosetests
.........................................................................
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 98 tests in 29.404s

OK
py34 inst-nodeps: python-diskcache/.tox/dist/diskcache-0.9.0.zip
py34 runtests: PYTHONHASHSEED='3527394681'
py34 runtests: commands[0] | nosetests
.........................................................................
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 98 tests in 22.841s

OK
py35 inst-nodeps: python-diskcache/.tox/dist/diskcache-0.9.0.zip
py35 runtests: PYTHONHASHSEED='3527394681'
py35 runtests: commands[0] | nosetests
.........................................................................
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 98 tests in 23.803s

OK
____________________ summary ____________________
  py27: commands succeeded
  py34: commands succeeded
  py35: commands succeeded
  congratulations :)

Coverage testing uses nose:

$ nosetests --cover-erase --with-coverage --cover-package diskcache
.........................................................................
Name                       Stmts   Miss  Cover   Missing
--------------------------------------------------------
diskcache.py                  13      2    85%   9-11
diskcache/core.py            442      4    99%   22-25
diskcache/djangocache.py      43      0   100%
diskcache/fanout.py           66      0   100%
--------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL                        564      6    99%
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 98 tests in 28.766s

OK

It's normal to not see 100% coverage. Some code is specific to the Python runtime.

Stress testing is also based on nose but can be run independently as a module. Stress tests are kept in the tests directory and prefixed with stress_test_. Stress tests accept many arguments. Read the help for details.

$ python -m tests.stress_test_core --help
usage: stress_test_core.py [-h] [-n OPERATIONS] [-g GET_AVERAGE]
                           [-k KEY_COUNT] [-d DEL_CHANCE] [-w WARMUP]
                           [-e EXPIRE] [-t THREADS] [-p PROCESSES] [-s SEED]
                           [--no-create] [--no-delete] [-v EVICTION_POLICY]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n OPERATIONS, --operations OPERATIONS
                        Number of operations to perform (default: 10000)
  -g GET_AVERAGE, --get-average GET_AVERAGE
                        Expected value of exponential variate used for GET
                        count (default: 100)
  -k KEY_COUNT, --key-count KEY_COUNT
                        Number of unique keys (default: 10)
  -d DEL_CHANCE, --del-chance DEL_CHANCE
                        Likelihood of a key deletion (default: 0.1)
  -w WARMUP, --warmup WARMUP
                        Number of warmup operations before timings (default:
                        10)
  -e EXPIRE, --expire EXPIRE
                        Number of seconds before key expires (default: None)
  -t THREADS, --threads THREADS
                        Number of threads to start in each process (default:
                        1)
  -p PROCESSES, --processes PROCESSES
                        Number of processes to start (default: 1)
  -s SEED, --seed SEED  Random seed (default: 0)
  --no-create           Do not create operations data (default: True)
  --no-delete           Do not delete operations data (default: True)
  -v EVICTION_POLICY, --eviction-policy EVICTION_POLICY

If stress exits normally then it worked successfully. Some stress is run by tox and nose but the iteration count is limited. More rigorous testing requires increasing the iteration count to millions. At that level, it's best to just let it run overnight. Stress testing will stop at the first failure.

Running Benchmarks

Running and plotting benchmarks is a two step process. Each is a Python script in the tests directory. Benchmark scripts are prefixed with benchmark_. For example:

$ python tests/benchmark_core.py --help
usage: benchmark_core.py [-h] [-p PROCESSES] [-n OPERATIONS] [-r RANGE]
                         [-w WARMUP]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PROCESSES, --processes PROCESSES
                        Number of processes to start (default: 8)
  -n OPERATIONS, --operations OPERATIONS
                        Number of operations to perform (default: 100000)
  -r RANGE, --range RANGE
                        Range of keys (default: 100)
  -w WARMUP, --warmup WARMUP
                        Number of warmup operations before timings (default:
                        1000)

Benchmark output is stored in text files prefixed with timings_ in the tests directory. Plotting the benchmarks is done by passing the timings file as an argument to plot.py.