In-memory cache rather than on-disk

[gertvdijk]

Feature request. It would be great if it was possible to not write the cache to disk. I'm was trying to use this module to cache my expensive passwordstore lookups (ansible/ansible#52290), but I'd rather not write my passwords in plaintext to disk if this is not necessary.

[rouge8]

My original attempt was in-memory (just a dict at the top of the module), but I couldn't get that to actually work... 😕

[gertvdijk]

My original attempt was in-memory (just a dict at the top of the module), but I couldn't get that to actually work... confused

Exactly what I tried and how I failed, when building my own plugin before discovering yours! 😄 It seems Ansible starts a whole new global context or something...

Anyway, if anyone would find a way, I'd be happy to hear about it.

[hdluc]

You could also make sqlite run in-memory only instead of using the disk by replacing the following:

    with Cache(os.path.join(C.DEFAULT_LOCAL_TMP, "cached_lookup")) as cache:

with

    with Cache(":memory:") as cache: