Add feature: call with freshness threshold #262
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The feature
In addition to specifying shelf life at storage time, this supports specifying max age at retrieval time.
Motivations
This is useful in interactive projects / data science notebooks.
I personally came to need this when building a cachable API client for Semantic Scholar. (Who knows when's the next groundbreaking paper? I only know how much cache to trust in hindsight.)
How to use
Refer to the test:
Anecdote
can in fact be further reduced to
(how fun!) but then how do you apply
wraps(func)
to type hint it? I haven't the faintest.