[Catalyst] Pager and Cache

[Emmanuel Quevillon]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:57:26PM +0200, Emmanuel Quevillon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know if this question have been already sent or not 
>> but I am wondering if it is possible to sort cache a pager 
>> into the catalyst application to be able to quickly get 
>> results from a query that would have been cached.
>> More explanation :
>>
>> I read in Jrock's book that a pager is quite easy to 
>> implement using $rs->page() and a page parameter in the 
>> query url to display results. However, this example (and 
>> method) obligate to redo the query search each time the user 
>> ask for the next, previous or last page. In the case the 
>> request takes a very long time, navigate through results 
>> start to be a pain. So is there a solution or would it be 
>> reasonable to think of caching the pager in the catalyst 
>> application to directly access each pages without requesting 
>> the database for the same query?

Hi Bill,

> 
> If the page does not change when going to "previous" then maybe what
> you really need is to simply set caching headers so the client
> (browser) will cache the page. 

If I understood well, this would mean that the 'previous' 
button would be a simple 'back' button?


  Set Expires short and if you need
> control use a cache-busting query parameter that you can change when
> you want to force a real page fetch.
> 

What do you exactly mean by 'cache-busting' query parameter?

Thanks anyway to other people who took time to reply.
Regards

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Emmanuel Quevillon
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