Django management command to clear johnny-cache cache :-)

clear_johnny_cache.py

import sys
import logging
from optparse import make_option

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError

class Command(BaseCommand):
    help = ("Invalidates portions of the queryset cache based on the app names"
            " or models provided as arguments to the command. If no arguments "
            "are provided, nothing is done. To clear the entire queryset "
            "cache, use the --all_models option.")
    args = '[appname appname.ModelName ...]'
    option_list = BaseCommand.option_list + (
        make_option(
            '--all-models', dest='all_models', action='store_true',
            default=False, help='Invalidate the cache for all models.'
        ),
        make_option(
            '-e', '--exclude', dest='exclude', action='append', default=[],
            help='App to exclude (use multiple --exclude to exclude multiple '
                 'apps).'
        ),
    )
    
    def handle(self, *app_labels, **options):
        from django.core.cache import cache
        from django.db.models import get_app, get_apps, get_models, get_model
        from django.utils.datastructures import SortedDict
        from johnny.cache import invalidate
        from johnny.middleware import QueryCacheMiddleware
        
        log = logging.getLogger('clear_johnny_cache')
        
        # enable queryset cache
        q = QueryCacheMiddleware()
        
        all_models = options.get('all_models')
        exclude = options.get('exclude')
        
        excluded_apps = set(get_app(app_label) for app_label in exclude)
        app_list = None

        if all_models:
            if len(app_labels):
                # FIXME: warn user that specifying apps on the command line when
                # using -all-models options has no impact
                pass
            app_list = SortedDict((app, None) for app in get_apps() if app not in excluded_apps)
        elif not len(app_labels) == 0:
            app_list = SortedDict()
            for label in app_labels:
                try:
                    app_label, model_label = label.split('.')
                    try:
                        app = get_app(app_label)
                    except ImproperlyConfigured:
                        raise CommandError("Unknown application: %s" % app_label)

                    model = get_model(app_label, model_label)
                    if model is None:
                        raise CommandError("Unknown model: %s.%s" % (app_label, model_label))

                    if app in app_list.keys():
                        if app_list[app] and model not in app_list[app]:
                            app_list[app].append(model)
                    else:
                        app_list[app] = [model]
                except ValueError:
                    # This is just an app - no model qualifier
                    app_label = label
                    try:
                        app = get_app(app_label)
                    except ImproperlyConfigured:
                        raise CommandError("Unknown application: %s" % app_label)
                    app_list[app] = None
                    
        if app_list:
            # Generate a list of models to be invalidated, and call the Johnny
            # Cache invalidate command.
            full_model_list = []
            for app, model_list in app_list.items():
                if model_list is None:
                    model_list = get_models(app)
                if model_list:            
                    full_model_list.extend(model_list)

            log.info('Trying to clear cache for %d app(s), %d model(s) to invalidate' % (len(app_list), len(full_model_list)))

            for model in full_model_list:
                log.info('Invalidating cache for %s' % (model._meta.module_name))            
                invalidate(model)
            log.info('Done invalidating')
        else:
            log.info('No model to invalidate')

Awesome. --all_models in docstring should be --all-models