Cache::NullCache(3pm)

💖 Cache::NullCache 💖

okay bestie, so this is Cache::NullCache — it's a Perl module (the 3pm situation ✨) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. she's small, she's chill, she's lowkey doing nothing on purpose. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Cache::NullCache — she implements the Cache interface. that's it, that's the whole name. short, iconic, no notes 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the NullCache class implements the Cache::Cache interface, but — and this is the whole point of her existence — she does not actually persist data. none. zero. nada. she's the main character who shows up, looks gorgeous, and remembers absolutely nothing 🦋

which is genuinely so useful when you're developing and debugging a system and you just want to easily turn off caching. like, flip the switch, cache is off, we move 🎀

and as a result (this is the important bit, don't skip it):

all calls to get and get_object will return undef.

no cap. every single one. she's not hiding your data somewhere cute, it's just gone. undef. periodt 💀

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🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

here's how you summon her:

  use Cache::NullCache;

  my $cache = new Cache::NullCache( );

and then — see Cache::Cache for the usage synopsis, because that's where the full usage tea lives 👑

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💜 METHODS 💜

See Cache::Cache for the API documentation.

(the methods are all inherited vibes, bestie. go read the parent page, iykyk 🌈)

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

See Cache::Cache for standard options.

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🎀 PROPERTIES 🎀

See Cache::Cache for default properties.

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Cache::Cache — the mothership. the blueprint. the blueprint that this lil null girl is built off of 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Original author: Jay Sachs
• Last author: $Author: dclinton $
• Copyright: (C) 2001 Jay Sachs, 2002 DeWitt Clinton

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okay that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓💅

sending you off with the fine print: this was perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-30, and the page itself is Cache::NullCache(3pm) — mwah, bye, go turn off some caching 🌸✨🫶