Cache.match()

The match() method of the Cache interface returns a Promise that resolves to the Response associated with the first matching request in the Cache object. If no match is found, the Promise resolves to undefined.

Syntax

cache.match(request,{options}).then(function(response) {
  //do something with the response
});

Returns

A Promise that resolves to the first Response that matches the request or to undefined if no match is found.

Parameters

request

The Request you are attempting to find in the Cache.

options Optional

An object that sets options for the match operation. The available options are:

• ignoreSearch: A Boolean that specifies whether to ignore the query string in the url.  For example, if set to true the ?value=bar part of https://foo.com/?value=bar would be ignored when performing a match. It defaults to false.
• ignoreMethod: A Boolean that, when set to true, prevents matching operations from validating the Request http method (normally only GET and HEAD are allowed.) It defaults to false.
• ignoreVary: A Boolean that when set to true tells the matching operation not to perform VARY header matching — i.e. if the URL matches you will get a match regardless of whether the Response object has a VARY header. It defaults to false.
• cacheName: A DOMString that represents a specific cache to search within. Note that this option is ignored by Cache.match().

Examples

This example is taken from the custom offline page example (live demo).

The following example uses a cache to supply selected data when a request fails. A catch() clause is triggered when the call to fetch() throws an exception. Inside the catch() clause, match() is used to return the correct response.

 In this example, we decided that only HTML documents retrieved with the GET HTTP verb will be cached. If our if() condition is false, then this fetch handler won't intercept the request. If there are any other fetch handlers registered, they will get a chance to call event.respondWith(). If no fetch handlers call event.respondWith(), the request will be handled by the browser as if there were no service worker involvement. If fetch() returns a valid HTTP response with an response code in the 4xx or 5xx range, the catch() will NOT be called. 

self.addEventListener('fetch', function(event) {
  // We only want to call event.respondWith() if this is a GET request for an HTML document.
  if (event.request.method === 'GET' &&
      event.request.headers.get('accept').indexOf('text/html') !== -1) {
    console.log('Handling fetch event for', event.request.url);
    event.respondWith(
      fetch(event.request).catch(function(e) {
        console.error('Fetch failed; returning offline page instead.', e);
        return caches.open(OFFLINE_CACHE).then(function(cache) {
          return cache.match(OFFLINE_URL);
        });
      })
    );
  }
});

Specifications

Browser compatibility

• [1] The options parameter only supports ignoreSearch, and cacheName. 
• [2] Service workers (and Push) have been disabled in the Firefox 45 Extended Support Release (ESR.)

See also

• Using Service Workers
• Cache
• WorkerGlobalScope.caches