Where should caching occur in an ASP.NET MVC application?

Question

I\'m needing to cache some data using System.Web.Caching.Cache. Not sure if it matters, but the data does not come from a database, but a plethora of custom obj

Answer 1

I think the caching should somehow be related to the model. I think the controller shouldn't care more about the data. The controller responsibility is to map the data - regardless where it come from - to the views.

Try also to think why you need to cache? do you want to save processing, data transmission or what? This will help you to know where exactly you need to have your caching layer.