I was trying to use the locmem cache for my web application but couldn't find any documentation on how to see the contents of the cache. I mean I want to check if my keys are being set correctly in the cache. How can I list all the keys in this cache or is that even possible?
I found the question "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9048257/get-list-of-cache-keys-in-django?rq=1" but it's about memcache, not the locmem cache.
The thing about locmem is that it really is just a local memory storage. Looking at the code, it's clear that the data is just being saved in a module-level variable, _caches, in that module. So you can just do
from django.core.cache.backends import locmem
print(locmem._caches)
With LocMemCache, 3 sets of code below can get the contents of the cache in Django. *My question explains what results 3 sets of code below can get with LocMemCache and my answer explains how to get the key's values with the keys and versions using LocMemCache:
from django.core.cache import cache
print(cache._cache) # Here
from django.core.cache import cache
print(cache._cache.items()) # Here
from django.core.cache.backends import locmem
print(locmem._caches) # Here