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ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 7789275499 refactor(web): one thread-safe TTL cache for the web process
web_interface/cache.py becomes a small TTLCache class (lock-guarded,
monotonic clock) with the existing get_cached/set_cached/delete_cached/
invalidate_cache helpers kept on top of a shared instance, so the api_v3
callers are unchanged.

Bugs fixed:
- set_cached(ttl_seconds=...) ignored its TTL; only the reader's value
  counted and get_cached defaulted to 60s. An entry now expires after the TTL
  it was stored with; a reader's ttl_seconds can only shorten that. Both
  current callers pass the same value on both sides (fonts_catalog 300s,
  system_status 10s), so their observable TTLs are unchanged.
- get_cached deleted expired keys without a lock; two threads reading the
  same expired key could raise KeyError (reproduced), which the endpoints
  turned into a 500.

app.py's two hand-rolled systemctl caches (_ap_mode_cache, 30s, and
_ledmatrix_service_cache, 15s) now share one helper over a private
TTLCache, with the same TTLs. The AP-mode check used to retry on every
request after a failure (and log an ERROR each time); a failure now keeps the
last known answer for the TTL, as the display-service check already did. With
no systemctl at all (a dev machine) it answers False without forking.

Left alone as not TTL memoisation: the gzip cache (size-bounded, keyed by URL
and version), the settings search index (keyed by installed-plugin set), the
widget bundle (keyed by file fingerprint) and CacheManager (cross-process).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 16:59:06 -04:00

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"""
In-process TTL cache for the web interface.
The one place the web process memoises cheap-to-recompute values for a few
seconds or minutes (the font catalog, the system-status snapshot, systemctl
checks). It is per-process and in-memory only; data shared with the display
service goes through ``src.cache_manager.CacheManager`` instead.
Separated from app.py to avoid circular imports: blueprints import the
module-level helpers below lazily, inside their request handlers.
"""
import threading
import time
from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Optional, Tuple
class TTLCache:
"""A small thread-safe key/value store whose entries expire.
Each entry keeps the TTL it was stored with. A reader may additionally
pass ``max_age`` to ask for something fresher than that; an entry is only
returned while it is younger than both.
Expired entries are not dropped on read: :meth:`peek` still returns them,
which is what a "keep the last known answer if the refresh fails" caller
needs. They are replaced by the next :meth:`set` of the same key, so this
is meant for a small, fixed set of keys, not an unbounded key space.
Ages are measured with ``time.monotonic`` so a wall-clock jump (NTP sync
on a Pi that booted without an RTC) neither expires nor immortalises
everything at once.
"""
def __init__(self, default_ttl: float = 60,
clock: Callable[[], float] = time.monotonic):
self._default_ttl = default_ttl
self._clock = clock
self._lock = threading.Lock()
# key -> (value, stored_at, ttl)
self._entries: Dict[str, Tuple[Any, float, float]] = {}
def get(self, key: str, default: Any = None,
max_age: Optional[float] = None) -> Any:
"""The value for ``key`` if it is still fresh, else ``default``."""
with self._lock:
entry = self._entries.get(key)
if entry is None:
return default
value, stored_at, ttl = entry
age = self._clock() - stored_at
if age >= ttl or (max_age is not None and age >= max_age):
return default
return value
def peek(self, key: str, default: Any = None) -> Any:
"""The last value stored for ``key``, fresh or not."""
with self._lock:
entry = self._entries.get(key)
return default if entry is None else entry[0]
def set(self, key: str, value: Any, ttl: Optional[float] = None) -> None:
"""Store ``value`` for ``ttl`` seconds (the cache default if None)."""
ttl = self._default_ttl if ttl is None else ttl
with self._lock:
self._entries[key] = (value, self._clock(), ttl)
def delete(self, key: str) -> None:
"""Remove ``key`` if present."""
with self._lock:
self._entries.pop(key, None)
def clear(self, pattern: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
"""Remove every entry, or only those whose key contains ``pattern``."""
with self._lock:
if pattern is None:
self._entries.clear()
else:
for key in [k for k in self._entries if pattern in k]:
del self._entries[key]
# The shared cache behind the functional helpers the blueprints use.
_default_cache = TTLCache(default_ttl=60)
def get_cached(key: str, ttl_seconds: Optional[float] = None) -> Optional[Any]:
"""Get a value from the cache if it has not expired.
The entry expires after the TTL it was stored with; ``ttl_seconds``, when
given, is an extra upper bound on its age for this read.
"""
return _default_cache.get(key, max_age=ttl_seconds)
def set_cached(key: str, value: Any, ttl_seconds: float = 60) -> None:
"""Store a value in the cache for ``ttl_seconds``."""
_default_cache.set(key, value, ttl=ttl_seconds)
def delete_cached(key: str) -> None:
"""Remove a single key from the cache if present."""
_default_cache.delete(key)
def invalidate_cache(pattern: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
"""Invalidate cache entries matching pattern, or all if pattern is None."""
_default_cache.clear(pattern)