Hi There,

I'm looking for some advice on the best ways to cache strings returned from an API, local file contents and/or other sources external to the database.

I've already achieved what I set out to do and works flawlessly. The only thing now is, I'm left wondering if there could have been a far better and potentially native way of doing this. So basically I'm using a combination of DevTrends MvcDonutCaching and the Client Dependency version ID. See my code below:

var clientDependencyVersion = ClientDependency.Core.Config.ClientDependencySettings.Instance.Version;
        var cacheManager = new DevTrends.MvcDonutCaching.OutputCacheManager();
        var cacheName = $"CacheExample-{clientDependencyVersion}";
        var cacheItem = cacheManager.GetItem(cacheName);
        string value;
        if (cacheItem == null)
        {
            value = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(path));
            cacheManager.AddItem(cacheName, new DevTrends.MvcDonutCaching.CacheItem() { Content = value }, DateTime.Now.AddHours(2));
        }
        else
        {
            value = cacheItem.Content;
        }

        return value;

Obviously, it goes without saying, changing the Client Dependency version ID produces another unique cache key and retrieves some fresh new data from our source.

Any tips or advice would certainly be appreciated.

Thanks,

Andy