cache

Tag: cache

[since 2.0]

Defines a repository cache instance based on the default repository cache implementation.

The default repository cache implementation caches files on the local filesystem in subdirectories of a configured base directory.

By default also, the parsed module descriptors read from the cache are kept in a memory cache in case they are reused. This may enhance the performance of multi-module build, provided that all modules are built using the same Ivy instance. The size of this memory cache is configurable in terms of number of module descriptors. A size of 0 means no memory caching.

Attributes

Attribute Description Required

name

name of the cache instance

Yes

basedir

the path of the base directory to use to put repository cache data. This should not point to a directory used as a repository!

No, defaults to repositoryCacheDir defined in caches

ivyPattern

the pattern to use to store cached Ivy files

No, defaults to default cache Ivy pattern as configured in caches

artifactPattern

the pattern to use to store cached artifacts

No, defaults to default cache artifact pattern as configured in caches

useOrigin

true to avoid the copy of local artifacts to the cache and use directly their original location, false otherwise. To know if an artifact is local, Ivy asks the resolver. Only filesystem resolver is considered local by default, but this can be disabled if you want to force the copy on one filesystem resolver and use the original location on another. Note that it is safe to use useOrigin even if you use the cache for some non local resolvers. In this case the cache will behave as usual, copying files to the cache. Note also that this only applies to artifacts, not to Ivy files, which are still copied in the cache.

No. defaults to the default value configured in caches

lockStrategy

the name of the lock strategy to use for this cache

No, defaults to default lock strategy as configured in caches

defaultTTL

the default TTL to use when no specific one is defined

No, defaults to ${ivy.cache.ttl.default}

memorySize

the number of parsed module descriptors to keep in a memory cache.

No, default to 150

Child elements

Element Description Cardinality

ttl

defines a TTL rule

0..n

Examples

<cache name="mycache"
       basedir="/path/to/mycache"
       ivyPattern="[module]/ivy-[revision].xml"
       artifactPattern="[module]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]"
       lockStrategy="no-lock"
       defaultTTL="1s">
    <ttl revision="latest.integration" duration="200ms"/>
    <ttl organisation="org1" duration="10m 20s"/>
    <ttl organisation="org2" duration="5h"/>
    <ttl organisation="org3" duration="2d 12h"/>
</cache>

Defines a cache called mycache, storing files in the /path/to/mycache directory using [module]/ivy-[revision].xml as a pattern to store Ivy files and [module]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext] as a pattern to store other artifacts. The lock strategy used by this cache is the no-lock strategy, which does not perform any locking. The defaultTTL used is 1 s, meaning that by default dynamic revision result will be stored and used for one second. TTL rules then define that all latest.integration revisions will be stored and used for 200 ms, while other dynamic revisions from org1 org2 and org3 modules will be stored respectively for 10 minutes 20 seconds; 5 hours; and 2 days and 12 hours.