Caching Expressions Using Parser Caches ¶
The ExpressionLanguage component already provides a compile() method to be able to cache the expressions in plain PHP. But internally, the component also caches the parsed expressions, so duplicated expressions can be compiled/evaluated quicker.
The Workflow ¶
Both evaluate()
and compile()
need to do some things before each can provide the return
values. For evaluate()
, this overhead is even bigger.
Both methods need to tokenize and parse the expression. This is done by the
parse()
method. It returns a ParsedExpression.
Now, the compile()
method just returns the string conversion of this object.
The evaluate()
method needs to loop through the "nodes" (pieces of an
expression saved in the ParsedExpression
) and evaluate them on the fly.
To save time, the ExpressionLanguage
caches the ParsedExpression
so
it can skip the tokenization and parsing steps with duplicate expressions. The
caching is done by a PSR-6 CacheItemPoolInterface instance (by default, it
uses an ArrayAdapter). You can
customize this by creating a custom cache pool or using one of the available
ones and injecting this using the constructor:
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use Symfony\Component\Cache\Adapter\RedisAdapter;
use Symfony\Component\ExpressionLanguage\ExpressionLanguage;
$cache = new RedisAdapter(...);
$expressionLanguage = new ExpressionLanguage($cache);
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See also
See the The Cache Component documentation for more information about available cache adapters.
Using Parsed and Serialized Expressions ¶
Both evaluate()
and compile()
can handle ParsedExpression
and
SerializedParsedExpression
:
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// ...
// the parse() method returns a ParsedExpression
$expression = $expressionLanguage->parse('1 + 4', []);
var_dump($expressionLanguage->evaluate($expression)); // prints 5
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use Symfony\Component\ExpressionLanguage\SerializedParsedExpression;
// ...
$expression = new SerializedParsedExpression(
'1 + 4',
serialize($expressionLanguage->parse('1 + 4', [])->getNodes())
);
var_dump($expressionLanguage->evaluate($expression)); // prints 5
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