Release: 2.1.0b1 | Release Date: January 21, 2026

# SQLAlchemy 2.1 Documentation

# Source code for examples.dogpile_caching.environment

    """Establish data / cache file paths, and configurations,
    bootstrap fixture data if necessary.

    """

    from hashlib import md5
    import os

    from dogpile.cache.region import make_region

    from sqlalchemy import create_engine
    from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
    from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session
    from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
    from . import caching_query

    # dogpile cache regions.  A home base for cache configurations.
    regions = {}

    # scoped_session.
    Session = scoped_session(sessionmaker())

    cache = caching_query.ORMCache(regions)
    cache.listen_on_session(Session)

    # global declarative base class.
    Base = declarative_base()

    root = "./dogpile_data/"

    if not os.path.exists(root):
        input(
            "Will create datafiles in %r.\n"
            "To reset the cache + database, delete this directory.\n"
            "Press enter to continue.\n" % root
        )
        os.makedirs(root)

    dbfile = os.path.join(root, "dogpile_demo.db")
    engine = create_engine("sqlite:///%s" % dbfile, echo=True)
    Session.configure(bind=engine)

    def md5_key_mangler(key):
        """Receive cache keys as long concatenated strings;
        distill them into an md5 hash.

        """
        return md5(key.encode("ascii")).hexdigest()

    # configure the "default" cache region.
    regions["default"] = make_region(
        # the "dbm" backend needs
        # string-encoded keys
        key_mangler=md5_key_mangler
    ).configure(
        # using type 'file' to illustrate
        # serialized persistence.  Normally
        # memcached or similar is a better choice
        # for caching.
        "dogpile.cache.dbm",
        expiration_time=3600,
        arguments={"filename": os.path.join(root, "cache.dbm")},
    )

    # optional; call invalidate() on the region
    # once created so that all data is fresh when
    # the app is restarted.  Good for development,
    # on a production system needs to be used carefully
    # regions['default'].invalidate()

    installed = False

    def bootstrap():
        global installed
        from . import fixture_data

        if not os.path.exists(dbfile):
            fixture_data.install()
            installed = True