Cachewrapper

Use case: you have modules or objects whose methods you want to call. These calls might be expensive (e.g. rate-limited API calls). Thus you do not want to make unnecessary calls which would only give results that you already have. However, during testing repeatedly calling these methods is unavoidable. Cachewrapper solves this by automatically providing a cache for all calls.

Currently this package is an early prototype, mainly for personal use.

Installation

• clone the repository
• run pip install -e . (run from where setup.py lives).

Usage Example

This is extracted from a real usecase (and not directly runable due to abridgement).

import os
from tqdm import tqdm
import cachewrapper as cw

# rate limited API module
from translate import Translator

cache_path = "translate_cache.pcl"
cached_translator = cw.CacheWrapper(original_translator)

if os.path.isfile(cache_path):
    cached_translator.load_cache(cache_path)

# not shown in this example
untranslated_classes = do_some_ontology_stuff()

res_list = []

for c in tqdm(untranslated_classes[:]):
    original = c.label.ru[0]
    translation = cached_translator.translate(original)

    if "MYMEMORY WARNING: YOU USED ALL AVAILABLE FREE TRANSLATIONS FOR TODAY" in translation:
        cached_translator._remove_last_key()
        break

    record = {
        c.name: {
            "ru": f"{original}",
            "en": f"{translation}",
        }
     }

    res_list.append(record)

cached_translator.save_cache(cache_path)