Http client cache

[gregorip02]

👋 Hi there.

I am wondering if I can add cache to my http clients. Currently I can't find any particular method within the Illuminate\Http\Client\PendingRequest class to help me with this.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Clients;

use Illuminate\Http\Client\PendingRequest as BaseHttpClient;

class MyHttpClient extends BaseHttpClient
{
    /**
     * Create client instance.
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        
        // Where 5000 represents the value in milliseconds that will live 
        // the response in cache.
        $this->withCache(5000);
    }
}

[ankurk91]

You can add middleware to http client
https://github.com/Kevinrob/guzzle-cache-middleware#laravel-cache

<?php

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;
use GuzzleHttp\HandlerStack;
use Kevinrob\GuzzleCache\CacheMiddleware;

$stack = HandlerStack::create();

$stack->push(new CacheMiddleware(), 'cache');

$options = ['handler' => $stack];

// Supply guzzle options to client
$response = Http::withOptions($options)->get('http://example.com');
dump($response);

[gregorip02]

Why not by default?

[ankurk91]

It is upto developer. It does not fit into all situations.