From 63b1eaf32c57f0e1bae9b6a3768a560165637aee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 14:02:50 +0100 Subject: Docs --- synapse/storage/_base.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'synapse/storage/_base.py') diff --git a/synapse/storage/_base.py b/synapse/storage/_base.py index 99c0948754..0872a438f1 100644 --- a/synapse/storage/_base.py +++ b/synapse/storage/_base.py @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ class Cache(object): class CacheDescriptor(object): """ A method decorator that applies a memoizing cache around the function. + This caches deferreds, rather than the results themselves. Deferreds that + fail are removed from the cache. + The function is presumed to take zero or more arguments, which are used in a tuple as the key for the cache. Hits are served directly from the cache; misses use the function body to generate the value. -- cgit 1.4.1