Beaker Documentation

Beaker is a library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications. It comes with WSGI middleware for easy drop-in use with WSGI based web applications, and caching decorators for ease of use with any Python based application.

• Lazy-Loading Sessions: No performance hit for having sessions active in a request unless they’re actually used
• Performance: Utilizes a multiple-reader / single-writer locking system to prevent the Dog Pile effect when caching.
• Mulitple Back-ends: File-based, DBM files, memcached, memory, and database (via SQLAlchemy) back-ends available for sessions and caching
• Cookie-based Sessions: SHA-1 signatures with optional AES encryption for client-side cookie-based session storage
• Flexible Caching: Data can be cached per function to different back-ends, with different expirations, and different keys
• Extensible Back-ends: Add more backends using setuptools entrypoints to support new back-ends.

• Configuration
  • Options For Sessions and Caching
  • Session Options
  • Cache Options
• Sessions
  • About
  • Using
  • Saving
  • Deleting
  • Cookie Domain and Path
  • Cookie-Based
• Caching
  • About
  • Creating the CacheManager Instance
  • Programmatic API
  • Decorator API
  • Cache Regions

• Changes in Beaker

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page
• Glossary

Module Listing

• beaker.cache – Cache module
  • Module Contents
• beaker.container – Container and Namespace classes
  • Module Contents
  • Deprecated Classes
• beaker.middleware – Middleware classes
  • Module Contents
• beaker.session – Session classes
  • Module Contents
• beaker.synchronization – Synchronization classes
  • Module Contents
• beaker.util – Beaker Utilities
  • Module Contents
• beaker.ext.database – Database Container and NameSpace Manager classes
  • Module Contents
• beaker.ext.google – Google Container and NameSpace Manager classes
  • Module Contents
• beaker.ext.memcached – Memcached Container and NameSpace Manager classes
  • Module Contents
• beaker.ext.sqla – SqlAlchemy Container and NameSpace Manager classes
  • Module Contents
• beaker.crypto.pbkdf2 – PKCS#5 v2.0 Password-Based Key Derivation classes
  • Module Contents