TMDiskCache

A disk cache with network loading and UIImageView category

The main active parts of this are TMDiskCache and TMDownloadManager.

The part you'll want to use is the UIImageView category which allows you to set the image to load from a URL.

Because of the loading animation you will need to link your project with QuarzCore.framework

Using the UIImageView category

Very basically you call it like this

		[self.userPhoto loadFromURL:displayedPost.user.avatar.imageURL
				   placeholderImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"noprofilepic"]
						  fromCache:[AppDelegate sharedAppDelegate].avatarImageCache];

In this example we are setting the image on a UIImageView called userPhoto the placeholder will be displayed while the image is downloaded & decoded, here we specifically use the avatarImageCache we created earlier, if you pass nil here the UIImageView will use the TMDiskCache singleton.

CAVEAT

The UIImageView category now uses method swizzling to take care of this.

Because of the Category there is a requrirement that if you wish to load a normal image into the imageview, you need to call

#####If Loading network images is all you care about, and you dont care about per type caches, read no further, and simply pass nil into the fromCache parameter!

#basic usage of TMDiskCache

At its simplest the UIImageView category will use the "default" TMDiskCache singleton, however a better implementation is for you to alloc you own instances of TMDiskCache with their own cache sizes, e.g. if you were writing an app.net client you could do something like

appDelegate.h

@property(strong,readonly) TMDiskCache							*postImageCache;
@property(strong,readonly) TMDiskCache							*coverImageCache;
@property(strong,readonly) TMDiskCache							*avatarImageCache;

in the .m

	_avatarImageCache		= [[TMDiskCache alloc] initWithCacheName:@"profilePictureCache" andCacheSize:5];
    _postImageCache			= [[TMDiskCache alloc] initWithCacheName:@"postImageCache" andCacheSize:50];
	_coverImageCache		= [[TMDiskCache alloc] initWithCacheName:@"coverArtCache" andCacheSize:20];

The cacheSize is always defined in megabytes.

Next, the TMDiskCache has a built-in cache trim algorithm, this is called like [_coverArtImageCache trimCache];

You should call this in your applications - (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application method e.g:

	[_avatarImageCache trimCache];
	[_postImageCache trimCache];
	[_coverImageCache trimCache];

To determine if an item is in the cache you call:

-(void)checkCacheForURL:(NSURL*)remoteURL
                success:(void(^)(NSURL * localURL))success
                failure:(void(^)(NSURL * localURL, NSError * error))failure

This will check if the item for the remote URL exists in the cache, if it does the URL to the item is passed as a parameter to the success block, if not the failure block is called (and again what WOULD be the local URL is passed in, along with an error).

If the item is in the cache it will be 'touched' so that it wont be expired from the disk cache immediately.

There are other methods in this class (one to set a data blob for a URL and one to test for exsitence & load as a NSData blob). These operate on a background Queue for nice smooth operation.

Basic usage of TMDownloadManager

to be written