From 290b24e814cb1058537a162697d079cdc876212d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rogelio <rogelio@rsrv.(none)>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:23:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added a use_cache flag to calls. Default is true.

This is to avoid caching calls like rate_limit_status which shouldn't ever be cached.

Binder was modified to only cache when the flag is true.
---
 tests.py         | 1 -
 tweepy/api.py    | 3 ++-
 tweepy/binder.py | 5 +++--
 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index c8bf554..4929cd3 100644
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -379,6 +379,5 @@ class TweepyCacheTests(unittest.TestCase):
         os.rmdir('cache_test_dir')
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-
     unittest.main()
 
diff --git a/tweepy/api.py b/tweepy/api.py
index 3ca294f..dafb739 100644
--- a/tweepy/api.py
+++ b/tweepy/api.py
@@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ class API(object):
     """ account/rate_limit_status """
     rate_limit_status = bind_api(
         path = '/account/rate_limit_status.json',
-        payload_type = 'json'
+        payload_type = 'json',
+        use_cache = False
     )
 
     """ account/update_delivery_device """
diff --git a/tweepy/binder.py b/tweepy/binder.py
index bf2dec3..12933a0 100644
--- a/tweepy/binder.py
+++ b/tweepy/binder.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ def bind_api(**config):
         method = config.get('method', 'GET')
         require_auth = config.get('require_auth', False)
         search_api = config.get('search_api', False)
+        use_cache = config.get('use_cache', True)
 
         def __init__(self, api, args, kargs):
             # If authentication is required and no credentials
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ def bind_api(**config):
 
             # Query the cache if one is available
             # and this request uses a GET method.
-            if self.api.cache and self.method == 'GET':
+            if self.use_cache and self.api.cache and self.method == 'GET':
                 cache_result = self.api.cache.get(url)
                 # if cache result found and not expired, return it
                 if cache_result:
@@ -172,7 +173,7 @@ def bind_api(**config):
             conn.close()
 
             # Store result into cache if one is available.
-            if self.api.cache and self.method == 'GET' and result:
+            if self.use_cache and self.api.cache and self.method == 'GET' and result:
                 self.api.cache.store(url, result)
 
             return result
-- 
2.25.1