caching in pipelines

[Jeremy Quinn]

Hi All,

I find the most difficult part of Cocoon to understand ATM (apart from Avalon ;) is Caching.


My 2.1-dev site currently has pages that might CInclude 4 or 5 separate internal pipelines. Some cacheable, some not (SQL and Lucene).

It's far too slow, I am trying to work out why, and specifically how any caching might be working.

Does the CachingCIncludeTransformer cache at the level of the PipeLine, or at the level of the individual CInclude tags within the document?

Should CInclude be able to cache internal pipelines it calls, if they are made up exclusively of cacheable components? Because it is difficult to see that this is actually happening. Running the Profiler on these internal pipelines appears to show that they are executing every time I hit the same page, taking a similar duration each time they are hit,

The non-caching CIncludeTransformer actually seems marginally quicker.

=:-{eek} what's happening?


I am very confused about the different caching directives, and the effect they have on pipelines.

Can anyone point me to documentation on this stuff?

In the 'Profiling' sample, the sitemap has:

<map:pipeline type="caching">

this is only in the profiler sitemap is it a typo?
it is similar to the other profiler @types.

What is this meant for?
What effect does it have on pipelines (<map:match/>s) that contain non-caching components?
Should it be used?


In the two files:

/xml-cocoon2/src/webapp/WEB-INF/entities/sitemap-v04.dtd
/xml-cocoon2/src/webapp/WEB-INF/entities/sitemap-v05.rng

There is reference to :

<autoCachingPoint>on|off</autoCachingPoint> element.

What is this all about?

Thanks for any help!


regards Jeremy


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