Retrieving expiration time for cached items

[EricE]

Hi,
I'm trying to pull market orders periodically and want to set the minimum period to the cache time. I know it is 300 s and see where you pull it from the headers. At the application level is there a way to retrieve the cache expiration time or cache duration?

I'm following your examples at Read the Docs, I'd like to get caching data for:

sell_items = region().marketSellOrders(type=item)

Thanks!

[Dreae]

There is not currently convenient way to get the cache time for resources, when I get a chance I'll see about providing that information in the APIObject returned.

[Kyria]

Hello,

I'm wondering if there are any news about this subject ?

Generally, it would be even more interesting to have a conveniant way to get access to all headers for resources, as there are expiration time (or cache duration), x-deprecated header etc.

[wtfrank]

Yeah this is quite a desirable feature - I see there are two different pull requests in the queue at the moment which address the issue of cache expiry.

[jonobrien]

quite desirable, as endpoints have a separate cache timer, also should be versioned (#17?) as well.

edit: clarifying

[hkraal]

When I got the build fixed and ironed out in #28 I will take a look at this as I'm planning on refactoring the caching mechanism anyways for #30.

There is indeed more info which could be sent back to the consumer, I think it would be nice to see if it's possible to add more info.

• cache (Boolean): If the content is being served from cache
• expiration (int): Time in seconds untill the cache expires
• api_version (str): API version header string (e.g. "application/vnd.ccp.eve.Api-v3+json")
• deprecated (Boolean): True if the endpoint is called with an older version (would imply that you can specify this per endpoint)

any suggestions on the names is more then welcome

[hkraal]

@Kyria this feature is pending in #39 , what do you think?