Implementing a Per-View Cache

Django's caching makes it possible to implement the cache at the view level as well. Instead of caching every page in the website, you might want to cache only a few specific views.

Use the django.views.decorators.cache.cache_page decorator function to implement caching for a specific view. The cache_page decorator function caches the web page generated by a view function. The cache_page decorator accepts one argument that specifies how many seconds to keep the web page cached.

The following code shows an example of implementing the cache_page decorator function to cache the web page generated by myView for 3 minutes:

@cache_page(180)
def myView(request):
    . . .