September 09, 2008
The strategy store is the new kid on the block. A strategy store wraps one or more fundamental stores, acting as a middle man between caching requests. For example, if you need to save memory on your Memcache server, you could wrap your MemcachedStore with a GzipStore. This would automatically compress the cached data when put into the cache, and decompress it on the way out. You can even wrap strategy caches with other strategy caches. If your key was comprised of sensitive information, like a SSN, you might want to encrypt the key before storage. Wrapping your GzipStore in a SHA1Store would take care of that for you.