X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/6ceb6f30683a68e65c76531121f509874d0a6105..6a0170aabec325291261d6e1a8fe9f49a469084b:/sdk/ruby/lib/arvados.rb

diff --git a/sdk/ruby/lib/arvados.rb b/sdk/ruby/lib/arvados.rb
index 5be1fd939e..f8bb4c0e70 100644
--- a/sdk/ruby/lib/arvados.rb
+++ b/sdk/ruby/lib/arvados.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ require 'rubygems'
 require 'google/api_client'
 require 'active_support/inflector'
 require 'json'
+require 'fileutils'
 
 ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
   inflect.irregular 'specimen', 'specimens'
@@ -109,12 +110,19 @@ class Arvados
       api = api.to_s
       return @discovery_documents["#{api}:#{version}"] ||=
         begin
-          response = self.execute!(
-                                   :http_method => :get,
-                                   :uri => self.discovery_uri(api, version),
-                                   :authenticated => false
-                                   )
-          response.body.class == String ? JSON.parse(response.body) : response.body
+          # fetch new API discovery doc if stale
+          cached_doc = File.expand_path '~/.cache/arvados/discovery_uri.json'
+          if not File.exist?(cached_doc) or (Time.now - File.mtime(cached_doc)) > 86400
+            response = self.execute!(:http_method => :get,
+                                     :uri => self.discovery_uri(api, version),
+                                     :authenticated => false)
+            FileUtils.makedirs(File.dirname cached_doc)
+            File.open(cached_doc, 'w') do |f|
+              f.puts response.body
+            end
+          end
+
+          File.open(cached_doc) { |f| JSON.load f }
         end
     end
   end