Support for cache force update

[Tamas-hi]

Hello everyone!

I have been experimenting with this library, and had really positive expierences the past few days.

The application I am working with has to fetch a lot of data from an API, where a request takes about 1 minute to complete. To enhance user experience, I introduced caching. On that specific request, a one day cache expiry is totally acceptable, so I set it up:

public function cacheExpiryInSeconds(): int
{
    return 86400; // One day
}

However, since the request takes so long, I would like to introduce an hourly automatic cache update in the background using Laravel Scheduler. Here I would like to reuse the connector and the request that I have already defined:

Schedule::call(function () {
    $connector= new XYZConnector();
    $request = new TestRequest();
    $response = $connector->send($request);
})->hourlyAt('15');

Here comes my problem. This hourly job update will not update the cache because of the cacheExpiryInSeconds defined in the Request. However, I can't change that, because I want my users who are doing the request from the frontend to be able to used the cache version of the response for one day. :)

Should I change my approach here? Or is a 'cache force update' something that can be a great feature? With that, I would be able to forcefully overwrite the cache in my hourly job. Right now I don't see any other option just to stick to Laravel's manual Cache store.