Caching an action in a multi-language website using Play Framework's Cached API

Question

In order to cache actions per label and language for a given number of seconds, I wrote the following helper method (where label, is the name I give to my action):

def cacheResponseFor(label: String, duration: Int)(action: EssentialAction) = { 
   Cached({r: RequestHeader => (label + getLanguage(r))}, duration){ action }
}

def getLanguage(request: RequestHeader): String = {
   request.cookies
     .get(helpers.SessionHelpers.LANGUAGE_SESSION)
        .map(_.value)
          .getOrElse(helpers.LanguageHelpers.FRENCH)
}

But I'm experiencing something weird, when I try to cache an Action for 60s and switch languages in the meantime to English from French for example, I keep getting the French version for 60s then it switches to english.

After investigating, I found that method getLanguage is not called at each call to that action as if the Key gets evaluated only after the caching period ends.

This is not right, I would want this cacheResponseFor to be called everytime I request my page, the language gets evaluated using getLanguage and I get the right cached version, i.e. I should end up with 2 cached actions (one per language).

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Maybe the problem is in the getLanguage method. Try this, as recommended by the docs:

def getLanguage(request: RequestHeader): String = {
    request.acceptLanguages
           .map(_.code)
           .headOption
           .getOrElse(helpers.LanguageHelpers.FRENCH)
}

Also, take a look at Controller.request2lang() method and see if it could be helpful to you.