Laravel Memoize

Memoize your expensive computed values to use in different components per each request.

Use case

Suppose you have an AddCommentRequest class whose job is to validate comments being added to your blog posts.

During the validation, you might need to make a database query using an Eloquent model or directly using the DB facade, and the same query result might be needed in the near future in another app component, say in your CommentController where this Request class is being called(injected) from.

If you do the same query from those 2 different places, you will end up with duplicate queries, and here where laravel-memoize comes to the rescue. It's to simple, just wrap the query in a \Closure and it will be memoized for you.

Installation

Install with composer

composer require aliem/laravel-memoize

Usage

You can memoize a heavy computed value by using the method remember(string $key, \Closure $callback) from Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize facade.

Example

<?php

namespace App\Controllers;

use Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize;

class MyAwesomeController extends Controller {
    public function index() {
        
        // Check if the item `iam_heavy` is memoized and return it,
        // otherwise, run the \Closure and memoize the result.
        $value = Memoize::remember('iam_heavy', function() {
            $result = 0;

            for ($i = 0; $i < 1000000; $i++) {
                $result += $i * rand(1, 10);
            }

            return $result;
        });

        return response(sprintf("My memoized value: %s", $value));
    }
}

remember(string $key, \Closure $callback): mixed

Check if the item is memoized, or it will execute the \Closure and memoize the result.

Memoize::remember(string $key, \Closure $callback);

Example

<?php

use Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize;

$comment = Memoize::remember('comment:1', function() {
    return Comment::find(1);
});

get(string $key): mixed

Get a memoized item

Memoize::get(string $key);

Example

<?php

use Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize;

$comment = Memoize::get('comment:1');

put(string $key, mixed $value): void

Memoize an item

<?php

use Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize;

$result = Comment::find(1);
$comment = Memoize::put('comment:1', $result);

has(string $key): bool

Check if an item is memoized

<?php

use Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize;

if (Memoize::has('comment:1')) {
    echo 'the item `comment:1` is memoized';
}

forget(string $key): bool

Delete a memoized item.

<?php

use Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize;

Memoize::forget('comment:1');

Memoize::flush()

Delete all memoized items

<?php

use Aliem\Memoize\Facades\Memoize;

Memoize::flush();

License

MIT.