Dear Mark, Sherzod, and the List:
I would like to know what you think about the following API enhancement:
I would like to be able to expire certain parameters based on mtime, not
atime. Current 'expire' method only works with access time.
Reason: I have a DB-driven web site. In order to improve performance, I
store some query results in session variables. But those I'd like to
refresh from time to time. To achieve this, I do things like
$session->param('abc', $value);
$session->param('abc_mtime', time);
# And later:
if ($session->param('abc_mtime') + $interval < time) {
# expired.
}
I would love to be able to say
$session->param('abc', $value);
$session->expire_mtime('abc', '2m'); # or something like that
and be done with it.
Questions:
a) what do you think?
b) if I implement it, will you accept the patch?
c) if the answer to (b) is yes, what kind of method name would you like?
Sincerely,
- Dmitri.
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