Best practice: How to use Redis backend in a Django Projects that already use redis?

[jedie]

I have a Django project that used Redis as cache backend.
Now i would like to use requests-cache. How to setup the redis backend? Just pass host+port from django settings?
Or is there a backend that used the django cache API ?

[JWCook]

is there a backend that used the django cache API ?

requests-cache is focused on client-side caching, not server-side, so it doesn't have any direct integration with the Django cache API, but there wouldn't be any problem with using the same Redis instance for both.

Just pass host+port from django settings?

Exactly. It should look something like:

from django.conf import settings
from requests_cache import CachedSession, RedisCache

backend = RedisCache(host=settings.REDIS_HOST, port=settings.REDIS_PORT)
session = CachedSession('http_cache', backend=backend)

[jedie]

Just passing host/port: Any side effect i should be aware of?

btw. what's about to add this in official documentation?

[alessio-locatelli]

Any side effect i should be aware of?

I do not know of any side effects. However, I am not a Redis expert.

btw. what's about to add this in official documentation?

There is a similar example in https://requests-cache.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/backends/redis.html#connection-options