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Is it possible to create static JSON file using the Element API plugin?
What I then want to do was cache that file probably using Varnish or push it to an S3 bucket.
If I was to cache it I would need to look at purging the URL when an entry is added or edited. If I pushed it to S3, then I would either need to overwrite the file or manage it another way.
What would be the best way to handle this, and could you easily create a static JSON file with caching and purging abilities?
Not sure how you can do this, but you could manually print the response to a file yourself on a regular basis (as a cron job) using wget:
This:
wget -S http://craft.fira/fullmembers.json
…saves the JSON into a file named fullmembers.json into the directory it was run from.
Here is the solution that I have used in a cron job that runs every minute:
wget -O - http://www.fira.co.uk/fullmembers.json > /home/forge/www.fira.co.uk/public/jsoncache/fullmembers-temp.json
rm /home/forge/www.fira.co.uk/public/jsoncache/fullmembers.json
mv /home/forge/www.fira.co.uk/public/jsoncache/fullmembers-temp.json /home/forge/www.fira.co.uk/public/jsoncache/fullmembers.json
