Hi,
Cache invalidation for something like this seems overkill if you ask me. I say this because there can be a number of factors where you may want to remove your cached navigation and rebuild it.
All of these actions have events you can hook into but you would need to then have logic to determine if the given content item is even a part of the cached nvaigation before you invalidate the cache.
It doesn't seem worth it at all, and from experience if you are to apply heavy logic off the back of event triggers, it can have an adverse affect on the user experience as it can potentially lock the UI.
I'd suggest just using object caching, and let it expire naturally after a period of time if the cache is relatively short lived.
Thanks,
Paul
You can use Episerver's ISynchronizedObjectInstanceCache https://world.episerver.com/documentation/developer-guides/CMS/caching/Object-caching/ to create a cache of any .NET object that you want to invalidate around any CMS dependancy so that when a CMS item gets changed it invalidtes the cache. This could be on a configuration item for the menus or the pages themselves depending on how you have built the menu. This is full built around scalable solutions and the DXP and works very well, I have used it to cache all the ViewModels for Blocks/Pages to supercharge performance. Example of some using code https://world.episerver.com/forum/developer-forum/-Episerver-75-CMS/Thread-Container/2016/8/isynchronizedobjectinstancecache-load-balancing-issues/ here.
Hi Deepa
First of all, if you create menu items from regular Episerver content (pages or blocks), you will not hit the database on every request. It will use cached content as soon as the content has been once loaded from database.
But if you have some reasons to cache your custom objects, and have them cleared when Episerver content is changed, have a look at this blog post (by yours truly).
Hello,
While creating menu item in our website we are generating cache at each menu level so that it need not hit database everytime as it's there on every page in website. If any menu item gets updated within menu structure we want to invalidate that particular cachekey and create it again with new update. What approach will help us to attain this? For now we are using custom local cache manager to remove the particular cachekey from CMS -> Admin section manually. Can we achieve this automatically on content update or publish?
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