jfyne / go-memoize

An easy, no-frills memoizer for Go. Cache your expensive function calls.

go-memoize

There wasn't a decent memoizer for Golang out there, so I lashed two nice libraries together and made one.

Dead-simple. Safe for concurrent use.

Project status

Complete. Latest commit timestamp might be old - that's okay.

Go-memoize has been in production for a few years, and has yet to burn the house down.

Usage

Cache expensive function calls in memory, with a configurable timeout and purge interval:

import (
	"time"

	"github.com/kofalt/go-memoize"
)

// Any expensive call that you wish to cache
expensive := func() (interface{}, error) {
	time.Sleep(3 * time.Second)
	return "some data", nil
}

// Cache expensive calls in memory for 90 seconds, purging old entries every 10 minutes.
cache := memoize.NewMemoizer(90*time.Second, 10*time.Minute)

// This will call the expensive func
result, err, cached := cache.Memoize("key1", expensive)

// This will be cached
result, err, cached = cache.Memoize("key1", expensive)

// This uses a new cache key, so expensive is called again
result, err, cached = cache.Memoize("key2", expensive)

In the example above, result is:

1. the return value from your function if cached is false, or
2. a previously stored value if cached is true.

All the hard stuff is punted to patrickmn's go-cache and the Go team's x/sync/singleflight, I just lashed them together.

Also note that cache.Storage is exported, so you can use the underlying cache features - such as Flush or SaveFile.