Caching in ASP.NET 5 in Controller

Question

I am trying to cache a output controller like I did in ASP.NET MVC 5.

I did that in ASP.NET MVC 5 Controller:

 [OutputCache(Duration = 60, VaryByParam = "*", Location = OutputCacheLocation.ServerAndClient)]

Now, I'm trying that in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6:

Controller Attribute:

[ResponseCache(CacheProfileName = "TestCache")]

In my Startup.cs:

//Caching
            services.Configure<MvcOptions>(options => options.CacheProfiles.Add("TestCache", new CacheProfile()
            {
                Duration = 3600,
                Location = ResponseCacheLocation.Any,
                VaryByHeader = "*"
            }));

I have added a breakpoint in my TestController, but the breakboint is fired everytime.

How can I fix it?

Answer 1

You should use new attributes of MVC Actions described here. For example

[ResponseCache(Duration=60)]

corresponds to

[OutputCache(Duration = 60)]

It places HTTP header

Cache-Control: public,max-age=60

in the corresponding HTTP response.

If you prefer to use caching profiles, you will find the corresponding information about the usage in the same article (see here).