Cloned from launchpad blueprint https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/cache-backend-abstraction.

Description:

Provide an abstract class for managing multiple cache backends that can be used in projects needing a cache system.

I.E:

class BaseCache(object):
    passs


class Memcache(BaseCache):
    passs

class Redis(BaseCache):
    passs


def get_cache(....):
    """Gets from configs the cache backend to use"""


Could be imported like:

from openstack.common import cache

cache.get_cache()

Specification URL (additional information):

https://github.com/FlaPer87/oslo-incubator/tree/cache/openstack/common/cache