Disable caching of some GET apis. Closes #1530

controllers/admin/serverConfig.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/owncast/owncast/core/data"
 	"github.com/owncast/owncast/core/transcoder"
 	"github.com/owncast/owncast/models"
+	"github.com/owncast/owncast/router/middleware"
 	"github.com/owncast/owncast/utils"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ func GetServerConfig(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	ffmpeg := utils.ValidatedFfmpegPath(data.GetFfMpegPath())
 	usernameBlocklist := data.GetForbiddenUsernameList()
 
-	var videoQualityVariants = make([]models.StreamOutputVariant, 0)
+	videoQualityVariants := make([]models.StreamOutputVariant, 0)
 	for _, variant := range data.GetStreamOutputVariants() {
 		videoQualityVariants = append(videoQualityVariants, models.StreamOutputVariant{
 			Name:               variant.GetName(),
@@ -66,6 +67,8 @@ func GetServerConfig(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	middleware.DisableCache(w)
+
 	if err := json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(response); err != nil {
 		log.Errorln(err)
 	}

controllers/admin/status.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/owncast/owncast/core"
 	"github.com/owncast/owncast/core/data"
 	"github.com/owncast/owncast/models"
+	"github.com/owncast/owncast/router/middleware"
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 )
 
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ func Status(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	middleware.DisableCache(w)
+
 	err := json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(response)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Errorln(err)

controllers/chat.go

@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ func GetChatMessages(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 
 // RegisterAnonymousChatUser will register a new user.
 func RegisterAnonymousChatUser(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-
 	if r.Method != POST {
 		WriteSimpleResponse(w, false, r.Method+" not supported")
 		return
@@ -72,5 +70,8 @@ func RegisterAnonymousChatUser(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		DisplayName: newUser.DisplayName,
 	}
 
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	middleware.DisableCache(w)
+
 	WriteResponse(w, response)
 }

controllers/config.go

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ type webConfigResponse struct {
 // GetWebConfig gets the status of the server.
 func GetWebConfig(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	middleware.EnableCors(w)
+	middleware.DisableCache(w)
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 
 	pageContent := utils.RenderPageContentMarkdown(data.GetExtraPageBodyContent())

controllers/status.go

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ func GetStatus(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	}
 
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	middleware.DisableCache(w)
+
 	if err := json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(response); err != nil {
 		InternalErrorHandler(w, err)
 	}