AlyxClient.rest_cache_dir property allows users to change location of REST response cache

Author: k1o0

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ This version makes some performance improvements and supports local mode eid2pid
 - update cache tables with calls to OneAlyx.eid2pid, pid2eid, eid2path, path2eid, get_details
 - OneAlyx.eid2pid and pid2eid support local mode queries so long as the insertions table exists
 
+### Added
+
+- AlyxClient.rest_cache_dir property allows users to change location of REST response cache
+
 ## [3.2.1]
 
 ### Modified

one/webclient.py

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def wrapper_decorator(alyx_client, *args, expires=None, clobber=False, **kwargs)
             response will not be used on subsequent calls.  If None, the default expiry is applied.
         clobber : bool
             If True any existing cached response is overwritten.
-        **kwargs
+        kwargs
             Keyword arguments for applying to wrapped function.
 
         Returns
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def wrapper_decorator(alyx_client, *args, expires=None, clobber=False, **kwargs)
         if args[0].__name__ != mode and mode != '*':
             return method(alyx_client, *args, **kwargs)
         # Check cache
-        rest_cache = alyx_client.cache_dir.joinpath('.rest')
+        rest_cache = alyx_client.rest_cache_dir
         sha1 = hashlib.sha1()
         sha1.update(bytes(args[1], 'utf-8'))
         name = sha1.hexdigest()
@@ -577,6 +577,7 @@ def __init__(self, base_url=None, username=None, password=None,
         # The default expiry is overridden by the `expires` kwarg.  If False, the caching is
         # turned off.
         self.default_expiry = timedelta(minutes=5)
+        self.rest_cache_dir = self.cache_dir.joinpath('.rest')
         self.cache_mode = cache_rest
         self._obj_id = id(self)
 
@@ -1368,5 +1369,5 @@ def json_field_delete(
 
     def clear_rest_cache(self):
         """Clear all REST response cache files for the base url."""
-        for file in self.cache_dir.joinpath('.rest').glob('*'):
+        for file in self.rest_cache_dir.glob('*'):
             file.unlink()