Caching in Ionic

Hi, do you know how to do caching in Ionic/Angular that would clear itself after some time. the Angular caching doesn’t seem to have the option of clearing itself. so was wondering if there is anything else? thank you

I had the same question some time ago. I created a service for this purpose and saved the data to $cacheFactory with a timestamp. For the timestamp I used Date.now() and compared it on every request.

thank you, would you mind sharing some of your code?

No. But I’m not sure if it fits you needs. I only have one host so its static. Insert a variable if you want to call it dynamicly.

.factory('$apiService', function($http, $ionicLoading, $ionicPopup, $cacheFactory, $rootScope) {
var cache  		= $cacheFactory('httpgetcache');
var cacheTime	= $cacheFactory('httptimecache');
return {
	clearCache:	function(path)
	{
		return cache.remove(path + '?');
	},
	request:	function (path, type, data, cacheControl, animation, onsuccess, onfail, showErrors)
	{
		type 			= type 			|| 'GET';
		data 			= data 			|| {};
		cacheControl	= cacheControl	|| false;
		animation		= animation		|| false;
		onsuccess 		= onsuccess 	|| function() {};
		onfail 			= onfail 		|| function() {};
		showErrors		= showErrors	|| true;
		
		if(type == 'GET')
		{
			path = path + '?';
			for (var key in data) {
				path += key + "=" + data[key] + "&";
			}
			if(cacheControl && cache.get(path) && Date.now() - cacheTime.get(path) < 120000)
			{
				onsuccess(cache.get(path));
				return true;
			}
		}
		
		if(animation)
		{
			$ionicLoading.show();
		}
		
		$http({
			method 	: 					type,
			url 	:  					'http://whatever.com/' + path,
			data 	: 					data
		})
		.success(function(data) {
			if(data.error)
			{
				if(data.error == 'ERROR_AUTH')
				{
					localStorage.removeItem('apikey');
					document.location.href = '#/login';
				}
				$ionicLoading.hide();
				if(showErrors)
				{
					$ionicPopup.alert({
						title: 				$rootScope.LANG_ERROR,
						template: 			$rootScope['LANG_' + data.error]
					});
				}
				onfail(data.error);
			} else {
				$ionicLoading.hide();
				if(type == 'GET')
				{
					cache.put(path, data);
					cacheTime.put(path, Date.now());
				}
				onsuccess(data);
			}
		})
		.error(function(){
			$ionicLoading.hide();
			if(showErrors)
			{
				$ionicPopup.alert({
					title: 					$rootScope.LANG_ERROR,
					template: 				$rootScope.LANG_ERROR_NETWORK
				});
			}
			onfail('ERROR_NETWORK');
		});
	}
}

})

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thank you a lot. I might get an idea of how to implement it.

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