[1.0.X] Changed the way cache specifiers are parsed.

Allows us to reuse the same code in multiple places, avoiding new and
interesting bugs (the testing framework had a DIY version that was slightly
wrong, for example). Fixed #9833.

Backport of r9936 from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.0.X@9937 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/django/core/cache/__init__.py b/django/core/cache/__init__.py
index 93e7adb76e..23a61ef859 100644
--- a/django/core/cache/__init__.py
+++ b/django/core/cache/__init__.py
@@ -31,7 +31,12 @@ BACKENDS = {
     'dummy': 'dummy',
 }
 
-def get_cache(backend_uri):
+def parse_backend_uri(backend_uri):
+    """
+    Converts the "backend_uri" into a cache scheme ('db', 'memcached', etc), a
+    host and any extra params that are required for the backend. Returns a
+    (scheme, host, params) tuple.
+    """
     if backend_uri.find(':') == -1:
         raise InvalidCacheBackendError, "Backend URI must start with scheme://"
     scheme, rest = backend_uri.split(':', 1)
@@ -48,6 +53,10 @@ def get_cache(backend_uri):
     if host.endswith('/'):
         host = host[:-1]
 
+    return scheme, host, params
+
+def get_cache(backend_uri):
+    scheme, host, params = parse_backend_uri(backend_uri)
     if scheme in BACKENDS:
         module = __import__('django.core.cache.backends.%s' % BACKENDS[scheme], {}, {}, [''])
     else: