cacache is a Node.js library for managing caches of keyed data that can be looked up both by key and by a digest of the content itself. This means that by-content lookups can be very very fast, and that stored content is shared by different keys if they point to the same data.

$ npm install --save cacache

• Example
• Features
• Contributing
• API
  • ls
  • get.stream
  • get.info
  • put.stream
  • put options
  • rm.all
  • rm.entry
  • rm.content
  • verify
  • verify.lastRun

const cacache = require('cacache')
const fs = require('fs')

const tarball = '/path/to/mytar.tgz'
const cachePath = '/tmp/my-toy-cache'
const key = 'my-unique-key-1234'
let tarballDigest = null

// Cache it! Use `cachePath` as the root of the content cache
fs.createReadStream(
  tarball
).pipe(
  cacache.put.stream(
    cachePath, key
  ).on('digest', (d) => tarballDigest = d)
).on('end', function () {
  console.log(`Saved ${tarball} to ${cachePath}.`)
})

const destination = '/tmp/mytar.tgz'

// Copy the contents out of the cache and into their destination!
cacache.get.stream(
  cachePath, key
).pipe(
  fs.createWriteStream(destination)
).on('end', () => {
  console.log('done extracting!')
})

// The same thing, but skip the key index.
cacache.get.stream.byDigest(
  cachePath, tarballDigest
).pipe(
  fs.createWriteStream(destination)
).on('end', () => {
  console.log('done extracting using sha1!')
})

• Extraction by key or by content digest (shasum, etc).
• Deduplicated content by digest -- two inputs with same key are only saved once
• Consistency checks, both on insert and extract.
• (Kinda) concurrency-safe and fault tolerant.
• Streaming support.
• Metadata storage.

The cacache team enthusiastically welcomes contributions and project participation! There's a bunch of things you can do if you want to contribute! The Contributor Guide has all the information you need for everything from reporting bugs to contributing entire new features. Please don't hesitate to jump in if you'd like to, or even ask us questions if something isn't clear.

Lists info for all entries currently in the cache as a single large object. Each entry in the object will be keyed by the unique index key, with corresponding get.info objects as the values.

cacache.ls(cachePath, (err, allEntries) => {
  if (err) { throw err }
  console.log(allEntries)
})
// Output
{
  'my-thing': {
    key: 'my-thing',
    digest: 'deadbeef',
    path: '.testcache/content/deadbeef',
    time: 12345698490,
    metadata: {
      name: 'blah',
      version: '1.2.3',
      description: 'this was once a package but now it is my-thing'
    }
  },
  'other-thing': {
    key: 'other-thing',
    digest: 'bada55',
    path: '.testcache/content/bada55',
    time: 11992309289
  }
}

Returns a stream of the cached data identified by key.

If there is no content identified by key, or if the locally-stored data does not pass the validity checksum, an error will be emitted.

A sub-function, get.stream.byDigest may be used for identical behavior, except lookup will happen by content digest, bypassing the index entirely.

cache.get.stream(
  cachePath, 'my-thing'
).pipe(
  fs.createWriteStream('./x.tgz')
)

cache.get.stream.byDigest(
  cachePath, 'deadbeef'
).pipe(
  fs.createWriteStream('./x.tgz')
)

Looks up key in the cache index, returning information about the entry if one exists. If an entry does not exist, the second argument to cb will be falsy.

• key - Key the entry was looked up under. Matches the key argument.
• digest - Content digest the entry refers to.
• path - Filesystem path relative to cache argument where content is stored.
• time - Timestamp the entry was first added on.
• metadata - User-assigned metadata associated with the entry/content.

cacache.get.info(cachePath, 'my-thing', (err, info) => {
  if (err) { throw err }
  console.log(info)
})
// Output
{
  key: 'my-thing',
  digest: 'deadbeef',
  path: '.testcache/content/deadbeef',
  time: 12345698490,
  metadata: {
    name: 'blah',
    version: '1.2.3',
    description: 'this was once a package but now it is my-thing'
  }
}

Inserts data from a stream into the cache. Emits a digest event with the digest of written contents when it succeeds.

request.get(
  'https://registry.npmjs.org/cacache/-/cacache-1.0.0.tgz'
).pipe(
  cacache.put.stream(
    cachePath, 'registry.npmjs.org|[email protected]'
  ).on('digest', d => console.log(`digest is ${d}`))
)

cacache.put functions have a number of options in common.

Arbitrary metadata to be attached to the inserted key.

If provided, the data stream will be verified to check that enough data was passed through. If there's more or less data than expected, an EBADSIZE error will be returned.

If present, the pre-calculated digest for the inserted content. If this option if provided and does not match the post-insertion digest, insertion will fail.

To control the hashing algorithm, use opts.hashAlgorithm.

Default: 'sha1'

Hashing algorithm to use when calculating the digest for inserted data. Can use any algorithm supported by Node.js' crypto module.

If provided, cacache will do its best to make sure any new files added to the cache use this particular uid/gid combination. This can be used, for example, to drop permissions when someone uses sudo, but cacache makes no assumptions about your needs here.

Clears the entire cache. Mainly by blowing away the cache directory itself.

cacache.rm.all(cachePath, (err) => {
  if (err) { throw err }
  console.log('THE APOCALYPSE IS UPON US 😱')
})

Removes the index entry for key. Content will still be accessible if requested directly.

cacache.rm.entry(cachePath, 'my-thing', (err) => {
  if (err) { throw err }
  console.log('I did not like it anyway')
})

Removes the content identified by digest. Any index entries referring to it will not be usable again until the content is re-added to the cache with an identical digest.

cacache.rm.content(cachePath, 'deadbeef', (err) => {
  if (err) { throw err }
  console.log('data for my-thing is gone!')
})

Checks out and fixes up your cache:

• Cleans up corrupted or invalid index entries.
• Garbage collects any content entries not referenced by the index.
• Checks digests for all content entries and removes invalid content.
• Fixes cache ownership.
• Removes the tmp directory in the cache and all its contents.

When it's done, it'll return an object with various stats about the verification process, including amount of storage reclaimed, number of valid entries, number of entries removed, etc.

This function should not be run while other processes are running cacache. It assumes it'll be used offline by a human or a coordinated process. Concurrent verifies are protected by a lock, but there's no guarantee others won't be reading/writing on the cache.

• opts.uid - uid to assign to cache and its contents
• opts.gid - gid to assign to cache and its contents
• opts.hashAlgorithm - defaults to 'sha256'. Hash to use for content checks.

echo somegarbage >> $CACHEPATH/content/deadbeef

cacache.verify(cachePath, (err, stats) => {
  if (err) { throw err }
  // deadbeef collected, because of invalid checksum.
  console.log('cache is much nicer now! stats:', stats)
})

Returns a Date representing the last time cacache.verify was run on cache.

cacache.verify(cachePath, (err) => {
  if (err) { throw err }
  cacache.verify.lastRun(cachePath, (err, lastTime) => {
    if (err) { throw err }
    console.log('cacache.verify was last called on' + lastTime)
  })
})