Set cache policy with the new media system

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Set cache policy with the new media system

Torjus Eidet

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With the old VPP system you could create and register a StaticFileHandler and override the cache policy, like this:

public class CdnStaticFileHandler : StaticFileHandler
{
    protected override void SetCachePolicy(HttpContext context, DateTime fileChangedDate)
    {
        context.Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow.AddYears(1));
        // ...and other cache headers
    } 
}

I'm not able to get this to work with the new media system. Is there a way to achieve the same result with the new media system? Preferably a way with access to the IContent object.

#81073

Feb 09, 2014 22:13

valdis

Vote:

As far as I know you can register handler by implementing a template for particular content type

public class CustomMediaFileHandler : StaticFileHandler, IRenderTemplate<CustomMediaFile>
{
    protected override void SetCachePolicy(HttpContextBase context, DateTime fileChangedDate)
    {
        var routeHelper = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ContentRouteHelper>();
        var content = routeHelper.Content;

Haven't played with following setup - so you should test it out.

#81075

Feb 09, 2014 23:51

Torjus Eidet

Vote:

I ended up trying something like

    [TemplateDescriptor(Inherited = true, TemplateTypeCategory = TemplateTypeCategories.HttpHandler)]
    public class ImageHandler : ContentMediaHttpHandler, IRenderTemplate<ImageFile>
    {
        protected override void SetCachePolicy(HttpContextBase context, DateTime fileChangedDate)
        {
            // Stuff
        }
    }

but that just results in "Ambiguous match found." without any sensable stack trace. :/

#81078

Edited, Feb 10, 2014 2:03

valdis

Vote:

Yes, unfortunately you cannot inherit from ContentMediaHttpHandler and at the same time implement IRenderTemplate for particular media content type. Try to inherit from BlobHttpHandler and implement GetBlob on your own:

public class SamplePdfHandler : BlobHttpHandler, IRenderTemplate<PdfFile>
{
    protected override Blob GetBlob(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        var customRouteData = httpContext.Request.RequestContext.GetCustomRouteData<string>(DownloadMediaRouter.DownloadSegment);
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(customRouteData))
        {
            httpContext.Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", string.Format("attachment; filename=\"{0}\"", customRouteData));
        }

        var binary = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ContentRouteHelper>().Content as IBinaryStorable;
        return binary == null ? null : binary.BinaryData;
    }

    protected override void SetCachePolicy(HttpContextBase context, DateTime fileChangedDate)
    {
        base.SetCachePolicy(context, fileChangedDate);
    }
}

#81084

Feb 10, 2014 9:51

Torjus Eidet

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Worked great, thanks!

#81120

Feb 10, 2014 18:19

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