With the Caching Resources policy it is possible to cache requests based on their URL path, HTTP method and HTTP status code. This allows reducing overall traffic to the backend API.
If you want to cache POST requests, you have to enable stateful request payload inspection in the settings of your API.
Configuration Options
Basic Configuration
Option
Description
Allowed Values
Default
TTL (Cache API responses for x seconds)
Specify a duration in seconds for how long the resources are cached (time-to-live).
any integer
-
Path
Enter a regular expression that will be used to identify the REST resource to cache. This applies to the resource path from the API endpoint on.
Regular expressions must be written in Java syntax.
a valid regular expression
-
Method
Specify a HTTP method to apply the path pattern to.
If you want to cache POST requests, you have to enable stateful request payload inspection in the settings of your API.
*
Cache all allowed methods (see below).
*
GET
Cache GET requests only.
POST
Cache POST requests only.
HEAD
Cache HEAD requests only.
Status Code
Specify a status code that will be used to identify the REST resource to cache.
a three-digit integer
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