Question - Iterating?

[ppearson111]

Just starting using Cache and it's worked great so far but I'm wondering if there's a way to iterate the cache of objects? The specific case I have is I initially store my objects with a numeric ID (converted to String) as the key... later I wish to lookup/find an object, but I have a "name" rather than the ID, so I'd like to iterate the cached objects, checking the name property to find a match. Terribly inefficient but that's the nature of the beast at this point. As I type this I realize if there were a way to have multiple keys that referenced the same cache object, that could be a solution to this issue as well - and faster for lookup. Thoughts? Thanks!

[vadymmarkov]

@ppearson111 Hi there, don't really see any good ways to iterate the cached objects. Cache is not a replacement of database, and even though files live in the folder, without the key it's not that easy to search/filter. I would recommend to store objects with any unique ID that you know at the moment of lookup. Could you use a "name" initially instead of numeric ID? Another option could be to cache objects as a JSON array, but it highly depends on the context.

[zenangst]

Closing because of lacking activity.