zerovm/zerocloud — pull request #163 by larsbutler (2014-09-24 08:43:13+00:00)
Title: Fix a caching issue with SwiftPath object

Fixes https://github.com/zerovm/zerocloud/issues/162.

By default, Swift uses JSON encoding for caching objects in memcached.

A recent bug fix (d4d088a2932406d925c5ff304eb8835678273351) made the
assumption that cached objects were pickleable. All of the tests passed,
but I observed this break in production.
See https://github.com/zerovm/zerocloud/issues/162 for details about the
error I observed.

In general, pickling should not be used for caching objects.
There is a reference to this in Swift commit
e1ff51c04554d51616d2845f92ab726cb0e5831a.

This patch switches to using JSON encoding for storing SwiftPath objects
in memcached.