merge CACHE_BACKEND feature from django_compressor

README.rst

@@ -134,6 +134,11 @@ If this seems a little hacky, it's because I wanted to make it easy to use whate
   converted to absolute URLs while being processed. Any local absolute urls (those
   starting with a '/') are left alone.
 
+``COMPRESS_CACHE_BACKEND`` default: ``CACHE_BACKEND``
+  The backend to use for caching, in case you want to use a different cache
+  backend for compressor. Defaults to the ``CACHE_BACKEND`` setting.
+
+
 
 Notes
 *****

compressor/cache.py

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+from django.core.cache import get_cache
+from compressor.conf import settings
+
+cache = get_cache(settings.CACHE_BACKEND)

compressor/conf/settings.py

@@ -14,3 +14,5 @@
 
 if ABSOLUTE_CSS_URLS and 'compressor.filters.css_default.CssAbsoluteFilter' not in COMPRESS_CSS_FILTERS:
     COMPRESS_CSS_FILTERS.insert(0, 'compressor.filters.css_default.CssAbsoluteFilter')
+
+CACHE_BACKEND = getattr(settings, 'COMPRESS_CACHE_BACKEND', settings.CACHE_BACKEND)

compressor/templatetags/compress.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from django import template
-from django.core.cache import cache
 
 try:
     from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
@@ -8,6 +7,7 @@
     DOMAIN = ''
 
 from compressor import CssCompressor, JsCompressor
+from compressor.cache import cache
 from compressor.conf import settings
 from time import sleep
 

compressor/tests.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 from compressor import CssCompressor, JsCompressor, UncompressableFileError
 from compressor.conf import settings
 from compressor.utils import get_file_hash
+from django.core.cache.backends import dummy
 
 class BaseTestCase(TestCase):
 
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ def setUp(self):
                 'arguments': '*.ccss'
             },
         }
+        settings.CACHE_BACKEND = "dummy://"
 
 
 class CompressorTestCase(BaseTestCase):
@@ -254,3 +256,8 @@ def test_js_tag(self):
         out = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/CACHE/js/3f33b9146e12.js"></script>'
         self.assertEqual(out, self.render(template, context))
 
+
+class CacheBackendTestCase(BaseTestCase):
+    def test_correct_backend(self):
+        from compressor.cache import cache
+        self.assertEqual(cache.__class__, dummy.CacheClass)