Razorlight: Add ability to use Distributed Cache

[tresoldigiorgio]

I've implemented an ICachingProvider with an IDistributed cache implemented with Redis but I'm not able to succeffully serialize a TemplateCacheItem because is not serializable. I've tried Binary serializer, JSON, Protopuf and MessagePack but no one works. Only inMemory cache work.

I need a serializable object. :-D

[toddams]

Your template is built by Roslyn and put into in-memory assembly.
Because of that, sharing between multiple instances is not possible at the moment. Possible solution is to add ability to compile templates into real DLLs

[toddams]

Can you describe your use-case?
You have multiple application servers and you'd like to cache templates to Redis, so they can be shared between all of those instances?

[tresoldigiorgio]

It's exactly my case. I have many instance of my application in a docker stack and i would to cache template only one time in redis.

[toddams]

In general, having all your servers to compile and cache templates is not bad at all.

If you are storing your templates in files, when file with your template changes - all templates will be invalidated from cache from all your servers, so you don't have to bother about this aspect.

You can also warm-up your containers by compiling all the templates before start. Or use Precompiled templates, feature I haven't done yet :P

But having an ability to use Redis for templates cache sound very nice for me, and it would definitely be interesting to develop :)