How to Prevent a request from being cached for LANGUAGE SWITCH routing Laravel Spatie responsecache

Question

I am using Laravel Spatie response cache: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-responsecache and Multiple language (language switch..).

How to fix: Preventing a request from being cached for language switcher route in Laravel.

I tried to add: ->middleware('doNotCacheResponse'); in lang.switch route but without success...

Route::get('lang/{language}', ['as' => 'lang.switch', 'uses' => 'LanguageController@switchLang'])->middleware('doNotCacheResponse');

Expected results to prevent request when switching pages (links) between language to be cached....

Answer 1

Not sure if I understand you correctly. If the problem is that you get cached results after you select a different language, I think you should clear the entire cache:

LanguageController {

    public function switchLang() {
        // Switch language
        ResponseCache::clear();
    }

}

Also, seems like spatie/laravel-responsecache allows you to delete specific URIs with ResponseCache::forget('/some-uri');

To delete cache after altering your data, do something like this

PostController {

    public function index()
    {
        // Display list of posts
    }

    public function edit()
    {
        // Display form to edit post
    }

    public function update()
    {
        // Delete related cache here and update post
        ResponseCache::forget('/posts');
    }
}