[wp-hackers] Transient key best practice

[Filippo Pisano]

You can simply md5 your key and query db for the md5 string corresponding
to your API request.
Il giorno 09/set/2013 21:39, "Micky Hulse" <mickyhulse.lists at gmail.com> ha
scritto:

> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a class that gets a JSON response from YouTube's API and
> caches the parsed data into a WP transient.
>
> I was tentatively planning on creating transient keys that look like:
>
> namespace_youtube:playlist_or_user|||cache_time|||number_of_items
>
> Where:
>
> 1. "namespace_youtube" = Make sure I don't stomp on other keys and
> easier to find.
>
> 2. "playlist_or_user" = Will be either a playlist ID or a username.
>
> 3. "cache_time" = How long to cache this transient.
>
> 4. "number_of_items" = Number of videos that were cached in this transient.
>
> 5. "|||" = Just an easy delimiter for me to search on if I need to
> get/parse transient keys.
>
> Goal:
>
> I want the ability to cache multiple different types of YouTube API
> calls and have them be cached based on playlist ID or username, how
> long it was it's supposed to be cached for and the number of items
> cached. In other words, there might be times where I need to request
> the same playlist but vary it's output by the cache time and number of
> items requested from the API.
>
> Question(s):
>
> Based upon my goal, does the above transient key naming convention make
> sense?
>
> What's common transient caching naming practice for situations like I
> describe above?
>
> For when it comes to transients, is there a way to have simpler
> transient key (just simply "namespace_youtube", for example) naming
> convention yet vary, and have the ability to access, the data stored
> in that transient?
>
> Please let me know if I need to clarify my questions.
>
> Thanks!
> M
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