Wicket has a CachingResourceStreamLocator that caches the resource streams.

here's my wicket less implementation, could be helpful too: 
https://github.com/l0rdn1kk0n/wicket-bootstrap/tree/master/bootstrap-less


Am 26.03.2013 um 01:01 schrieb Pointbreak <[email protected]>:

> I have implemented a LessCssResource (it generates a CSS resource from
> Less source files) + LessCssResourceReference. Since computing the CSS
> is expensive, I would like to cache the generated CSS on the server,
> once generated. It is unclear to me whether Wicket has mechanisms to do
> this. I expected that IStaticCacheableResource would also provide the
> means to do server side caching (in addition to setting the correct
> headers and decorating the url for client-side caching). But this
> doesn't seem to be the case.
> 
> When I look at what happens when doing a second page request/refresh
> after all browser caches are cleared, it seems that for IResource's that
> implement IStaticCacheableResource (including my LessCssResource, but
> also e.g. ConcatBundleResource from wicket core):
> 
> * Resource.newResourceResponse is called (which obviously results in a
> recompute of the entire response)
> * Resource.getCacheableResourceStream is called (which also does a
> recompute of the entire response)
> * All implementations of these methods in wicket core resources are
> designed so that both calls do a full recompute of the actual response
> (which duplicates the effort for every page that uses a resource)
> * The Resource itself is recreated for every request (I could cache it
> in e.g. LessCssResourceReference, but nothing in wicket core abuses
> ResourceReferences for server side caching of Resources, so I'd like to
> know if there is a better approach). 
> 
> I have looked at Wickets own implementations of Resources that would
> benefit from server side caching and happen to implement
> IStaticCachableResource (e.g. ConcatBundleResource) and they seem to
> have the same behaviour: no server-side caching, and for each request
> the resource is actually computed multiple times: once for the actual
> response, once for computing the cache-key to decorate the url.
> 
> Hence I would like to know:
> 
> * Should the duplicate expensive compute of various Wicket core
> IStaticCacheableResource implementations not be fixed?
> * Does Wicket provide any mechanism for server side caching of IResource
> implementations?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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