Package: python-beaker (1.4.1-1)

cache and session library

Beaker is a web session and general caching library that includes WSGI middleware for use in web applications.

As a general caching library, Beaker can handle storing for various times any Python object that can be pickled with optional back-ends on a fine-grained basis.

Features:

 * Fast, robust performance
 * Multiple reader/single writer lock system to avoid duplicate simultaneous
   cache creation
 * Cache back-ends include dbm, file, memory, memcached, and database (using
   SQLAlchemy for multiple-db vendor support)
 * Signed cookies to prevent session hijacking/spoofing
 * Cookie-only sessions to remove the need for a database or file backend
   (ideal for clustered systems)
 * Extensible Container object to support new back-ends
 * Caches can be divided into namespaces (to represent templates, objects,
   etc.) then keyed for different copies
 * Create functions for automatic call-backs to create new cache copies after
   expiration
 * Fine-grained toggling of back-ends, keys, and expiration per Cache object

Tags: Software Development: Python Development, Libraries, Implemented in: Python, Role: Development Library, Shared Library, Scope: Utility, World Wide Web: Server