Using BoxLang's Cache Services

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Using BoxLang's Cache Services

A look at BoxLang's incredibly complex and powerful caching service.

https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/06/11/using-boxlangs-cache-services

[scottsteinbeck]

Great write up, i too got confused with the Java Optional methodology. I love that boxlang has provided a streamlined API for interacting with multiple different cache configurations and providers. I mostly use the getOrSet method in my coldbox app because its kind of a no brainer; "hey cache do you have it? no? then get it!"

For my site purposes i employ a fairly similar domain syntax for cache key, because it is so powerful.
"ats.user-123.account-1254.transactions" would be a cache key and then depending on my needs for clearning the cache it could be "ats.", "ats.user-123.", "ats.user-123.account-1254.*" or specifically that key "ats.user-123.account-1254.transactions"

Nice touch with the runnable examples, i did notice on the first example there was a copy paste error, you are dumping "#c#" but you renamed the variable, just and FYI.

Thanks for the quick start guide, ill be playing around with it today!

[cfjedimaster]

Thank you - fixed - but I forgot to set the width/height of the embed right, that will be fixed too in like 5 minutes.

[lhoess]

Nice and concise article on the value and simplicity of cache. I did notice that the second fibonacci2() function is returning one extra iteration of the sequence for some reason. I think the fix for fibonacci2() to return k not 1.

if(k < 2) {
		result = k;
...

[cfjedimaster]

Wouldn't k be 1 if k < 2? (Assuming positive numbers.)

[cfjedimaster]

Ugh, you are right! I'm updating the code/boxlang embed now.

[cfjedimaster]

Should be fixed now. Thank you!

[lhoess]

Yeah, I thought returning a 1 should have worked too, and I wasn't sure why the responses differed but changing it to k seemed to work. The reverse works as well, changing the first function to return 1 if k < 2