It is a fork of go-cache implemented with Go 1.18 generics.
Despite this enhancement, it remains
an in-memory key:value store/cache similar to memcached that is
suitable for applications running on a single machine. Its major advantage is
that, being essentially a thread-safe map[string]T with expiration
times, it doesn't need to serialize or transmit its contents over the network.
Any object can be stored, for a given duration or forever, and the cache can be safely used by multiple goroutines.
Although go-cache isn't meant to be used as a persistent datastore, the entire
cache can be saved to and loaded from a file (using c.Items() to retrieve the
items map to serialize, and NewFrom() to create a cache from a deserialized
one) to recover from downtime quickly. (See the docs for NewFrom() for caveats.)
go get github.com/chocolacula/go-cache-generic
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/chocolacula/go-cache-generic"
"time"
)
func main() {
// Create a cache with a default expiration time of 5 minutes, and which
// purges expired items every 10 minutes
c := cache.New[any](5*time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)
// Set the value of the key "foo" to "bar", with the default expiration time
c.Set("foo", "bar", cache.DefaultExpiration)
// Set the value of the key "baz" to 42, with no expiration time
// (the item won't be removed until it is re-set, or removed using
// c.Delete("baz")
c.Set("baz", 42, cache.NoExpiration)
// Get the string associated with the key "foo" from the cache
foo, found := c.Get("foo")
if found {
fmt.Println(foo)
}
}