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Drupal 8 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Module Development Build and customize Drupal 8 modules and extensions efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168775
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Developing for Drupal 8 2. Creating Your First Module FREE CHAPTER 3. Logging and Mailing 4. Theming 5. Menus and Menu Links 6. Data Modeling and Storage 7. Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. The Database API 9. Custom Fields 10. Access Control 11. Caching 12. JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Internationalization and Languages 14. Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Views 16. Working with Files and Images 17. Automated Testing 18. Drupal 8 Security

Using the Cache API

So far in this chapter, we mostly preoccupied ourselves with render arrays and how we can expose them to the Cache API for better performance. It's now time to talk a bit about how cache entries are stored by default in Drupal and how we can interact with them ourselves in our code.

As mentioned earlier, a central interface for the cache system is the CacheBackendInterface, which is the interface any caching system needs to implement. It basically provides the methods for creating, reading, and invalidating cache entries.

As we might expect, when we want to interact with the Cache API, we use a service to retrieve an instance of the CacheBackendInterface. However, the service name we use depends on the cache bin we want to work with. Cache bins are repositories that group together cache entries based on their type. So, the aforementioned implementation...

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