Backend-Template/Config/CacheProvider.py

from functools import wraps
from flask import request, jsonify
import time

class Cache:
    def __init__(self):
        """
            Simple caching mechanism that will only cache data if the user is not sending any GET / POST arguments in the request.
            Use in combination with the RouteProvider class to be able to include in a request without extra instantiation and reduce performance cost.
        """
        self.cache = {}

    def __call__(self, timeout):
        """
            Can be expanded to include request payload based caching - make a caching hash which includes the request.args and request.form data. 
            Keep in mind that it is memory taxing given a dynamic request type.
            Caching large payload routes with thousands of possible arguments could cause a memory overflow and crash the server.
        """
        def decorator(func):
            @wraps(func)
            def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
                cache_key = f"{request.method}:{request.path}"
                if (cache_key in self.cache and time.time() <= self.cache[cache_key]["date_expires"]) and not (
                    request.form.keys() or request.args.keys()
                ):
                    return jsonify(self.cache[cache_key]["data"])
                else:
                    data = func(*args, **kwargs)
                    expiration_time = time.time() + timeout
                    self.cache[cache_key] = {
                        "date_created": time.time(),
                        "date_expires": expiration_time,
                        "data": data
                    }
                    return jsonify(data)
            return wrapper
        return decorator

_cache = Cache()