yes you can even set_value(). I'm using it to prepopulate individual "by_id" elements

from a multiple-row SELECT.

diff --git a/examples/beaker_caching/meta.py b/examples/beaker_caching/meta.py
index 25fa1d4cf138b16e48a59387166f9fe84a084ccd..5feecc19a96d3dfb0e4528843de7d9dfe6577119 100644 (file)
--- a/examples/beaker_caching/meta.py
+++ b/examples/beaker_caching/meta.py
@@ -106,7 +106,12 @@ class CachingQuery(Query):
 
         cache, cache_key = self._get_cache_plus_key()
         cache.remove(cache_key)
-        
+
+    def set_value(self, value):
+        """Set the value in the cache for this query."""
+
+        cache, cache_key = self._get_cache_plus_key()
+        cache.put(cache_key, value)        
 
 class FromCache(MapperOption):
     """A MapperOption which configures a Query to use a particular