flush all cache through artisan, and typo

[vesper8]

php artisan modelCaching:flush --model=App\Model

should be

php artisan modelCache:flush --model=App\Model

And I noticed that you HAVE to specify a model.. it would be very preferable to being able to flush all of the modelCache.. without having to flush the entire redis cache

could this be added please?

[vesper8]

Furthermore I just tested flushing a model and noticed you have to provide double slashes on the command line:

php artisan modelCache:flush --model=\MyVendor\MyModule\Models\MyModel

fails

but

php artisan modelCache:flush --model=\\MyVendor\\MyModule\\Models\\MyModel

works

[mikebronner]

yes, the double-slashes is expected. :)
Regarding flushing only model caching when you don't provide a model, I don't see that being implemented at the moment, due to the complexity involved of figuring out which models are cached models, and then to iterate through them and flush each one individually.

If you can submit a PR to get this expedited, that would help. I'll definitely keep it on the radar for future consideration, though. Thanks! :)

[mikebronner]

I added this now in version 0.2.33. To achieve this, I recommend setting up a dedicated cache connection for laravel-model-cache, then use the php artisan modelCache:flush command. Let me know how that works.

[vesper8]

Thanks for implementing this @mikebronner but I have a few concerns about it

First of all shouldn't config('laravel-model-caching:store') be config('laravel-model-caching.store') ? Does config work with either : or . ? I never tried it with :

Also.. I see that you don't provide any default value in your configuration file, instead you just use env('MODEL_CACHE_STORE') which isn't an existing env variable. What is supposed to be this value? A connection name?

So what will happen if someone tries to run this and they haven't configured this variable? What would happen then?

Also.. you recommend setting a dedicated cache connection.. is that a requirement or a recommendation? What will happen if one doesn't do that.. will it flush more than just the part of the cache occupied by this package?

[mikebronner]

Hmm, let me look at the cache store configuration name issue. That might have been slipping by me this whole time. Thanks for noticing.
If you don't set up a dedicated cache store, it would flush the entire cache. I was just thinking I should elaborate on this in the documentation.