Flask redis / memcaching in python

flask_cache.py

from flask import Flask, jsonify
from requests import get as request
from flask_caching import Cache

BASE = """https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/{id}"""

# creating application
app = Flask(__name__)

conf = {'CACHE_TYPE': 'redis'}  # or memcache
cache = Cache(app=app, config=conf)


# function to query db
def read_document(id: int) -> dict:
    global BASE
    resp = request(BASE.format(id=id))
    if resp.json():
        return (True, resp.json())
    return (False, resp.json())


@app.route("/user/<int:id>")  # implementing router
@cache.cached(timeout=30)     # caching for 30
def user(id):
    status, body = read_document(id)

    if not status:
        return jsonify(success=False, message="Invalid ID"), 404
    return jsonify(body)


app.debug = True
app.run()