How do you cache the content asset? If you use IObjectInstanceCache/ISynchronizedObjectInstanceCache (which is the recommended way), when you add an object to cache you can control how long before the cache will expire, using CacheEvictionPolicy 

if you want to remove the cache actively, just remove the cache key 

https://world.episerver.com/csclasslibraries/cms/EPiServer.Framework.Cache.IObjectInstanceCache?version=7

So, we're not caching anything ourselves.

We just inherit from "ContentProvider" and then implement all the necessary operations. Unfortunately i'm not allowed to post hyperlinks, otherwise i would've posted a snippet.

public class MyContentProvider : ContentProvider

{

protected override IContent LoadContent(ContentReference contentLink, ILanguageSelector languageSelector){}

protected override IList<GetChildrenReferenceResult> LoadChildrenReferencesAndTypes(ContentReference contentLink, string languageID, out bool languageSpecific){}

}

This is what we do. Then ofcourse we hook it up to make this turn up in the Asset pane as a new tab.

The problem is that the results of "LoadChildrenReferencesAndTypes" is cached after the first call. And we're trying to figure out where it is cached and how we can expire it.

I am looking into the implementation of ContentProvider, and can't find where the cache is implemented (Admittedly I could have missed something). Are you sure it is cached at that level, but not on higher level (IContentRepository for example)

It could be at a higher level. We're not sure about that. 

Our content provider makes live API calls to an external data source. When we were debugging, we noticed that when we expand a node in the asset tree, live calls are going through, but the second time around, data turns up instantaneously, but its not making a live call. So we understand that its cached somewhere. We are trying to understand where exactly its cache (it must be SynchronizedObjectCache im guess) and how we can get the key if we need to expire it manually. 

Since our last update, we also found another function that we could override

protected override void SetCacheSettings(IContent content, CacheSettings cacheSettings){}

This allows us to set the cache interval, which is good, but we still have certain conditions where we would like to "manually" expire the cache.

Hi Quan, do you have any further insight that could be helpful?

Is that a paid/premium service? How would i go about doing that?

Just reach out to support@episerver.com. it should not cost money, at least at the beginning. 

Thanks Quan. I've proceeded to do so.