Evict objects from objectify cache

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especially Objectify team,

I'm persisting my objects through this code pattern

Entity filled = ofy().save().toEntity(myPojo);
filled.setUnindexedProperty( "myStuff", "computedSpecialValue" );
datastore.persist(filled);

Reading back my objects, I noticed they are get from cache since Objectify was not notified that it should evict the updated entity from its cache.

I like the Objectify cache feature since it saves me the time to grab data from memcache and reconstuct the objects for each read, so I want my objects to be cached, but I want to be able to evict them.

This discussion says there was no solution in mid 2013, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/objectify-appengine/n3FJjnYVVsk/6Xp99zReOKQJ

If it's still the case, I'd expect an API like 

ofy().save().entity(myPojo).evict();

and by the way, I imagine the API would be more consistent if 

Entity filled = ofy().save().toEntity(myPojo);

was replaced by

Entity filled = ofy().save().entity(myPojo).toEntity();

Naturally, there's a costly workaround to the issue:

  • save the entity twice (once manually, then through objectify)
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1 Answers

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While there is no formal API for evicting cache entries, it's not hard to do:

MemcacheServiceFactory
    .getMemcacheService(ObjectifyFactory.MEMCACHE_NAMESPACE)
    .delete(key.toWebSafeString());