Ability to view string and ID cache value

[Antonytm]

Code provides ability to view values saved in cache. It uses reflection to get cache entry value for caches(due to internal and private access modifiers). It provides ability to see what is inside HtmlCache and PathsCache. This code could be easily extended to add more abilities to view what is inside other caches. All that is required: 1) Add condition for type of current cache entry 2) Add code that will convert current object to string value.

Examples:

[DerDreschner]

I would really like to see that feature in sitecore.rocks

[Antonytm]

Any particular reason why this pull request is ignored? :-(

[nickwesselman]

Hi @Antonytm,

Sorry, not ignored. I took over Rocks about a year ago and we have not really had the capacity to do anything beyond maintenance on it / updates for new Sitecore and VS versions. This looks like a potentially useful feature but, to be honest, I am holding off on any new features for Rocks until I can get some telemetry on usage of existing features and some more test automation in place. Taking this PR for example... it uses reflection on internal/private members of a Caching API that I know was refactored in 8.2, so this would need to be tested across several Sitecore versions. There are lots of features in Rocks that need this and at the moment I'm not sure how much any of them are being used by the community.

Keeping the PR open though as I know it could be a useful feature. Thanks for the patience.

-Nick

[DerDreschner]

Hey @nickwesselman,

thank you very much for your reply! You're right, it definitely need some more testing and fixing. For example, I get this error for several but not all caches with Sitecore 8.2.7:

As the main feature isn't merged into master yet, I guess this is the right place to report it.

Thank you very much!