invalidate cache_page entries in django

gistfile1.py

def expire_view_cache(view_name, args=[], namespace=None, key_prefix=None, method="GET"):
    """
    This function allows you to invalidate any view-level cache. 
        view_name: view function you wish to invalidate or it's named url pattern
        args: any arguments passed to the view function
        namepace: optioal, if an application namespace is needed
        key prefix: for the @cache_page decorator for the function (if any)
        
        from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2268417/expire-a-view-cache-in-django
        added: method to request to get the key generating properly
    """
    from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
    from django.http import HttpRequest
    from django.utils.cache import get_cache_key
    from django.core.cache import cache
    from django.conf import settings
    # create a fake request object
    request = HttpRequest()
    request.method = method
    if settings.USE_I18N:
        request.LANGUAGE_CODE = settings.LANGUAGE_CODE
    # Loookup the request path:
    if namespace:
        view_name = namespace + ":" + view_name
    request.path = reverse(view_name, args=args)
    # get cache key, expire if the cached item exists:
    key = get_cache_key(request, key_prefix=key_prefix)
    if key:
        if cache.get(key):
            cache.set(key, None, 0)
        return True
    return False

That makes a lot of sense.. and now totally explains the weirdness I originally say. I think language code was being included unconditionally before and I removed that to get it working for me. Thanks a lot Patrick!

great. this function is simple and awesome – it totally saved my day/week. IMHO, this should be part of djangos core.

I cant get this to work with redis, my keys in the db are:

redis 127.0.0.1:6379[3]> keys *
1) ":1:views.decorators.cache.cache_page..GET.3ea110fe325fa79fc1c57f03f06bc7b4.d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.es.Europe/Madrid"
2) ":1:views.decorators.cache.cache_header..3ea110fe325fa79fc1c57f03f06bc7b4.es.Europe/Madrid"

The get_cache_key returns nothing, im using other cache than default ([3]) called "users"

test in django==1.8.14, get_cache_key with request. require META["SERVER_NAME"] and META["SERVER_PORT"].