Add enabled flag for opt-in cache control

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Implementation Complete ✅

Summary

Successfully implemented cache opt-in functionality with an enabled flag in the cache configuration.

Implementation Checklist

• Add enabled property to CacheProperties interface in cache.ts
• Keep cache: false for backward compatibility (noted in JSDoc for removal in next major)
• Update default cache configuration in create.ts to include enabled: true
• Update request interceptor in request.ts to handle enabled flag logic
• Add comprehensive unit tests (9 new test cases)
• Run existing tests to ensure no breaking changes (156 tests pass)
• Run linter and build to ensure code quality (all pass)
• Security scan completed (0 vulnerabilities)
• Add comprehensive documentation with examples

All PR Comments Addressed ✅

1. Removed deprecation warnings from documentation - New users only see the recommended cache: { enabled: false } approach
2. Kept cache: false for backward compatibility - TypeScript cannot deprecate subset of union type, so kept in type signature with JSDoc note for removal in next major release
3. Added comprehensive documentation - Detailed examples for opt-in and opt-out patterns in docs

Key Changes

1. Added enabled: boolean to CacheProperties - Controls cache on/off at global and per-request level
2. Default value: true - Maintains backward compatibility
3. Backward compatible cache: false - Still supported, will be removed in next major release (noted only in JSDoc)
4. Clean documentation - Only shows recommended cache: { enabled: false } approach, no mentions of cache: false except in JSDoc
5. Full test coverage - 9 comprehensive tests

Documentation Added

• New cache.enabled section explaining the feature
• Opt-in cache pattern example (cache disabled globally, enabled per-request)
• Traditional opt-out pattern example (cache enabled globally, disabled per-request)
• Updated cache section to show only recommended approach

Testing

• ✅ 156 total tests pass
• ✅ 99.81% code coverage
• ✅ No linting errors
• ✅ No security vulnerabilities
• ✅ Code review completed

Backward Compatibility

• ✅ All existing code continues to work
• ✅ cache: false still supported (for backward compatibility only, will be removed in next major)
• ✅ No breaking changes

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Possibility to opt-in cache</issue_title>
<issue_description>I have an old project of nextjs project.. Most of the pages of the project do not need caching. I only need to use this cache on a few pages. How to set the global setting to disable caching, I only need to enable caching on a few pages.
such as

axios.get('url', {
  cache: true,
});

or

axios.get('url', {
  cache: {
    open: true,
    ...otherOption
 },
});

how can i resolve this question</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Implement this feature by adding a flag to config named something like "enabled: boolean = true" that is enabled by default, but users can set to false to disable it by default and only enable cache on requests with config.cache.enabled = true. Then deprecate config.cache = false (but still support it) and add a tsdoc saying to users move to config.cache.enabled = false. Remember to add unit tests</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@arthurfiorette Hey @panghaoyuan, disabling cache by default seems to be a no-op to this package ship as a feature.

If the hassle is worth, you can use cache: false on every page that cache should be disabled and use axios as normally on every page that cache should be enabled. Which is the currently recommended and default behavior of axios-cache-interceptor.

To incrementally adopt axios-cache-interceptor in your current system, I'd export two axios instances in your code, like axios and newAxios with cache enabled.

Feel free to reopen this issue :)</comment_new>
<comment_new>@arthurfiorette
What's the problem with 2 axios instances?</comment_new>
<comment_new>@arthurfiorette

Cache will still be enabled but will get overridden every time by a new response.

Nice! I didn't think of that before. This is probably the best solution since once override: false, you already have a lot of populated data. </comment_new>
<comment_new>@arthurfiorette
It seems that a lot of people are wanting this feature, I'll reopen this issue in case someone wants to work on it.

remember to add unit tests :)</comment_new>

• Fixes Possibility to opt-in cache #511

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Pull request overview

This PR implements an opt-in cache pattern by adding an enabled flag to CacheProperties, allowing users to disable caching globally while selectively enabling it per-request. This addresses use cases where incremental cache adoption is needed in existing projects.

Key Changes:

• Added enabled: boolean property to CacheProperties (defaults to true)
• Updated request interceptor to check config.cache.enabled after config merge
• Deprecated cache: false syntax in favor of cache: { enabled: false }

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
src/cache/cache.ts	Adds enabled property to CacheProperties interface with comprehensive documentation
src/cache/create.ts	Initializes enabled flag in default cache configuration (defaults to true)
src/interceptors/request.ts	Implements enabled flag check after config merge; updates debug message for deprecated cache: false
src/cache/axios.ts	Adds deprecation notice for cache: false syntax, guiding users to new cache: { enabled: false } pattern
test/interceptors/enabled.test.ts	Comprehensive test suite covering all enabled/disabled scenarios, backward compatibility, and edge cases

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