I want to disable caching when running ASP.NET core application in Development environment. How can i do that?
I'm setting cache up in Startup:
services.AddMemoryCache();
I want to disable cache in templates, which use the <cache> tag:
<cache expires-after="@TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3600)">
You can simply inject IHostingEnvironment into the startup constructor of your Startup.cs
Like So
private readonly IHostingEnvironment _environment;
public Startup(IConfiguration configuration,IHostingEnvironment environment)
{
_environment = environment;
Configuration = configuration;
}
Then you can use the private IHostingEnvironment inside your configures services method .
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
if(!_environment.IsDevelopment())
services.AddMemoryCache();
}
EDIT :
After rereading the question the cache tags should be disabled aswell.
I would suggest adding a flag inside your appsettings.devlopment.json called"PageCachingEnabled": "false" .
On the view I would then inject the configuration like so
@using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration
@inject IConfiguration Configuration
<cache [email protected](Configuration["PageCachingEnabled"]) expires-after="@TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3600)">
IHostingEnvironment concrete implementations which provide helper functions around the current environment setup. In the above code Memory cache will only be added if the environment is Not Development therefore "disabling" it. Unless I misunderstood the question this is what he wanted to achieve
ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT variable from the build settings right_environment.IsDevelopment() just goes and checks ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT if its set to Development or notThe trick is to use services.AddDistributedMemoryCache(); in development, this will use the memory of the running system as a cache.
if(Env.IsDevelopment()) {
services.AddDistributedMemoryCache();
} else {
services.AddStackExchangeRedisCache();
}
