What I'd like to see is a flag that I can use to mark a map as cached and the ability to specify a time-out.
For example: <map:match pattern="test/*"> <map:generate src="xmldb:xindice://localhost:4080/db/test/{1}"/> <map:serialize type="xml"/> <map:cache timeout="300" regenerate="async"/> </map:match> In this case, what'ever is returned by "test", no matter what it is or how it was generated would be cached for 300 seconds. The map wouldn't even try to check to see if the source data has changed. Also, after the 300 seconds (5 minutes) has elapsed, the next call to the map will cause a new data set to be created either Synchronously making the caller wait, or Asynchronously thus allowing the caller to continue on his way without having to wait for the data to be re-created. Incoherent babbling on my thoughts of implementing this using xsp and java... I've thought of doing this in XSP using Java, by storing the request URI stored into a hash table with a calculated timeout, and the name of a file. The first request to the map generates a file for the cache and writes out the result of the pipeline to that file. It then stores the calling URI, calculated expiration date/time, and filename to the hashtable. Subsequent calls to the same map check against the hashtable, if the URI is not present it generates it for the first time, if it is present and the time-out has not expired it feeds back to the caller the cached file, if the timeout has expired it starts a new thread to generate a new cache file (when that thread completes it resets the hashtable to point to the new file) in the mean time the cached file is returned to the caller. Anyone interested in such a beast? -- Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faqs.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>