Extensions.Caching.Tags

Marking IMemoryCache entries by tags for easier removing.

Installation

Extensions.Caching.Tags is available on NuGet.

dotnet add package Extensions.Caching.Tags

Usage

Use registration of service for IMemoryCache by general way:

using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;

//...

services.AddMemoryCache();

After getting service you may add tag or tags for caching entries. Just add it as last parameter:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory; //Use common namespace for caching. No need to add something else

_cache.Set(key, value, optionsOrExpiration, new CacheTags("tag0", "tag1"));
_cache.Set(key, value, optionsOrExpiration, new CacheTags { "tag0", "tag1" }); //Same behaviour as above
_cache.Set(key, value, optionsOrExpiration, new[] {"tag0", "tag1"}); //Same behaviour as above

CacheTags is inherited class from List<string>.

After that you can remove entries from cache by this way:

_cache.RemoveByTag("tag0"); //will remove all entries tagged by "tag0"

Contribute

Contributions to the package are always welcome!

License

The code base is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.

References

Some methods of this package are wrappers for methods from Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Abstractions. Also this package is using namespace Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Memory for easier use.

See Caching