Commerce Commerce 1.x Developer Caching

If you’re in need to cache certain information in Commerce, you can use a caching pool compatible with PSR-6. Commerce ships with the RevolutionCache adapter which implements the PSR-6 Caching Interface and maps it to the modCacheManager in MODX 2.x.

To load a cache pool (a collection of cache items), call the getCacheService($provider, array $options) method on the Adapter. The $provider is a string representing the provider or cache partition (when using the standard file cache, this is the name of directory under the core/cache/ folder). The $options method allows you to pass additional options to the xPDOCache instance.

Let’s say you built a module for taxes and need to cache some tax rates somewhere. Here’s how you might do that:

<?php
$pool = $adapter->getCacheService('commerce_my_tax_module');

$cacheItem = $pool->getItem('rates/new_york');
// If the cacheItem is a hit, it means we have a value. 
if ($cacheItem->isHit()) {
    $taxRates = $cacheItem->get();
}
// If we don't have a hit, we can load the data and write it to cache 
else {
    $taxRates = loadTaxRatesFromSomewhere();
    $cacheItem->set($taxRates)->expiresAfter(3600);
    if (!$pool->save($cacheItem)) {
        // log an error that we were unable of caching the data
    }
}

var_dump($taxRates);

It’s recommended to use this PSR-6 compatible caching layer rather than interacting with the modCacheManager directly. In the future it might be possible to define a different PSR-6 cache implementation, and we can seamlessly switch out implementations in future versions of MODX like MODX 3.

Cache Items

The following methods are available on the Item (retrieved via $pool->getItem() or $pool->getItems():

  • getKey() returns the cache key for the current cache item.
  • get() returns the value for the cache item. This can be a string, integer, boolean, object, array, or null.
  • isHit() returns a boolean true or false to indicate if a value was retrieved for the item.
  • set($value) updates the value for the item (doesn’t matter it was a hit or not). The get() immediately returns the new value, however the updated value is not persisted to the cache until you call $pool->save($item). Returns the object itself, so can be chained.
  • expiresAt($expiration) sets the expiration for the cache entry to the time specified in the DateTime instance provided in $expiration. Returns the object itself, so can be chained.
  • expiresAfter($time) sets the expiration time to the current time plus $time, provided as an integer representing a number of seconds, or a DateInterval instance. Returns the object itself, so can be chained.

Pool

The pool is a collection of items, and is responsible for creating the Item instances.

The following methods are available:

  • getItem($key) always returns an Item instance. Check $item->isHit() to determine if a value was found or not.
  • getItems(array $keys) with $keys containing an array ['key1', 'key2], this will return an array ['key1' => 'value of key1', 'key2' => 'value of key2'].
  • hasItem($key) returns a boolean true or false to check if an item exists in the pool.
  • clear() empties the entire cache pool.
  • deleteItem($key) removes a specific item from the pool. Not all MODX cache drivers support this and may instead empty the entire pool.
  • deleteItems(array $keys) with $keys containing an array ['key1', 'key2'] each of the items will be removed from the cache.
  • save(CacheItemInterface $item) persists the item with its value to the cache. Returns true or false.
  • saveDeferred(CacheItemInterface $item) adds the item to a queue to be persisted when commit() is called. This is not implemented in the RevolutionCache adapter, making it functionality equivalent to calling save().
  • commit() persists all the deferred items from saveDeferred() to the cache. This is not implemented in the RevolutionCache adapter.