is exists anyway to disable cache invalidation in runtime?

[ghanbari]

Hi, I have some command that do heavy work, but for some reason i don't need to purge cache,
I want to disable cache invalidation for those commands, i removed PurgeHttpCacheListener listener from entityManager.

is exists anyway to disable cache invalidation by calling a service method?

[teohhanhui]

Do you mean to disable the cache tags only for certain operations?

[teohhanhui]

Looking at the code, this is not currently possible.

[ghanbari]

Do you mean to disable the cache tags only for certain operations?

No, i want to disable cache tags for certain resource or for all resource in certain console commands.

Looking at the code, this is not currently possible.

I check code and didn't saw anything, maybe we have this feature in future?

[teohhanhui]

I don't see the support for disabling cache tags for a certain resource either.

These should be easy to add. PRs welcome!

[oussj]

Hello @teohhanhui
Would love to help on this matter as I'm experiencing the same problem.
First, which developer interface do you have in mind for this feature.
As I see it, I see three options :

• an Annotation on a service that would disable the cache invalidation temporarly

/**
 * @DisableCachePurge
 */
class MyMassiveImportCommand
{ 

• an interface that would implement a enableCachePurge and disableCachePurge method

interface ControlCachePurgeInterface
{
    public function enableCachePurge();
    
    public function disableCachePurge();
}

Do you think one of these solutions would be apropriate ?

Thanks !

[oussj]

Hello @teohhanhui

What do you think about the solutions I suggested? Do you have a better idea to fix this?

Thanks!

[oussj]

Hello @teohhanhui

Were you able to have a look at the solution I suggested? Looking forward to have your feedbacks and other ideas!

Thanks!

[teohhanhui]

@oussj Thanks for the suggestions, but I don't think they're the right ones for this case. 😄

If you want to disable cache purging for a certain console command, that should already be possible by using e.g.

api_platform:
    http_cache:
        invalidation:
            enabled: '%env(bool:CACHE_INVALIDATION_ENABLED)%'

$ CACHE_INVALIDATION_ENABLED=0 bin/console app:my:command

[oussj]

Ok thanks !
I'm looking into it !

[bastnic]

@oussj subject mentioned in #3168, where I do heavy work but not in a situation where I can benefit of an env var.

[oussj]

hello @teohhanhui
so from what I see what you proposed is already a solution actually to this issue. Moreover the fix proposed by @bastnic in #3168 resolves this issue too. Should you close this issue ?