Baseflow / Baseflow/flutter_cache_manager

Proposal to support all platforms (including web) while emulating browser caching behavior

Open
#462 4 comments 8 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
Dart
Stars
809
Forks
510
Avg merge
6m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

Description

## 🏗 Enhancement Proposal

I recently was able to support all native platforms and web with an emulation of how the browser works with saving, revalidating and evicting cache.

https://github.com/rodydavis/http_get_cache

The goal is to support the same way the browser does caching:
- Cache-Control, eTag, Last-Modified headers
- max-age, stale-while-revalidate, stale-if-error, only-if-cached
- Support fetching content updates with head requests for non immutable objects and only after stale and 304 response meaning no update
- Support skipping cache with request headers: no-cache
- Support preventing storing with: no-store
- Use platform cache directory for stored files and database in documents

### Pitch

- Update core logic to use Drift instead of sqflite to support all native platforms
- Web will use the fetch_client package and work with browser caching
- New http client for wrapping network requests
- Add tests to test for expected browser behavior

### Platforms affected (mark all that apply)
- [X] :iphone: iOS
- [X] :robot: Android
- [+] MacOS
- [+] Windows
- [+] Linux
- [+] Web
- [+] Dart native

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reading the linked http_get_cache project and the proposal's references to Drift, sqflite, and fetch_client. Compare the intended Cache-Control, ETag, Last-Modified, revalidation, eviction, and platform-storage behavior, then verify that the native and web platforms are covered by tests for the expected browser behavior.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
dart, flutter
Domain
databases, mobile-dev, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
22/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.