Configuration

Configuration

It's super easy to configure Cashew, all you need to do is create an HttpCachingHandler and then provide it as an argument to HttpClient. The following example is done by creating an HttpClient and all its dependencies by hand, note that this is much easier if you use an IoC-container.

//We like CacheManager so much that we want to use it as our cache library.
var config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
    .WithSystemRuntimeCacheHandle()
    .Build();

//We now have our cache which we will use
var cache = new BaseCacheManager<object>(config);

//But seeing as Cashew has its own simple interface, called ICache, we need to make use of the adapter pattern.
var cacheAdapter = new CacheManagerAdapter(cache);

//We use the default HTTP compliant strategy for creating keys (we need the cache for vary-header support)
var keyStrategy = new HttpStandardKeyStrategy(cacheAdapter);

//We also want to use the HTTP compliant strategy for creating cache keys, making this super easy
var httpCachingHandler = new HttpCachingHandler(cacheAdapter, keyStrategy); 

//We're now ready to create our HttpClient and start sending requests with awesome built-in caching functionality!
var httpClient = new HttpClient(httpCachingHandler);

As mentioned above this process can be simplified if you use an IoC-container or don't use CacheManager.

For more information on how to configure CacheManager, please refer to this.