From baf98ca80e56133d594b8b0f079cd7b4214db884 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ashisgreat22 <dev@ashisgreat.xyz>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:06:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cache: add QueryHash and CachedEngineResponse type

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 internal/cache/cache.go      | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 internal/cache/cache_test.go | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+)

diff --git a/internal/cache/cache.go b/internal/cache/cache.go
index 4d25b16..79d3c8b 100644
--- a/internal/cache/cache.go
+++ b/internal/cache/cache.go
@@ -208,3 +208,25 @@ func Key(req contracts.SearchRequest) string {
 
 	return hex.EncodeToString(h.Sum(nil))[:32]
 }
+
+// QueryHash computes a deterministic hash from shared request parameters
+// (query, pageno, safesearch, language, time_range) for use as a cache key suffix.
+// The hash is a truncated SHA-256 (16 hex chars).
+func QueryHash(query string, pageno int, safesearch int, language, timeRange string) string {
+	h := sha256.New()
+	fmt.Fprintf(h, "q=%s|", query)
+	fmt.Fprintf(h, "pageno=%d|", pageno)
+	fmt.Fprintf(h, "safesearch=%d|", safesearch)
+	fmt.Fprintf(h, "lang=%s|", language)
+	if timeRange != "" {
+		fmt.Fprintf(h, "tr=%s|", timeRange)
+	}
+	return hex.EncodeToString(h.Sum(nil))[:16]
+}
+
+// CachedEngineResponse wraps an engine's cached response with metadata.
+type CachedEngineResponse struct {
+	Engine   string
+	Response []byte
+	StoredAt time.Time
+}
diff --git a/internal/cache/cache_test.go b/internal/cache/cache_test.go
index 3986f0f..6857f05 100644
--- a/internal/cache/cache_test.go
+++ b/internal/cache/cache_test.go
@@ -75,3 +75,35 @@ func TestNew_NopWithoutAddress(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func strPtr(s string) *string { return &s }
+
+func TestQueryHash(t *testing.T) {
+	// Same params should produce same hash
+	hash1 := QueryHash("golang", 1, 0, "en", "")
+	hash2 := QueryHash("golang", 1, 0, "en", "")
+	if hash1 != hash2 {
+		t.Errorf("QueryHash: same params should produce same hash, got %s != %s", hash1, hash2)
+	}
+
+	// Different query should produce different hash
+	hash3 := QueryHash("rust", 1, 0, "en", "")
+	if hash1 == hash3 {
+		t.Errorf("QueryHash: different queries should produce different hash")
+	}
+
+	// Different pageno should produce different hash
+	hash4 := QueryHash("golang", 2, 0, "en", "")
+	if hash1 == hash4 {
+		t.Errorf("QueryHash: different pageno should produce different hash")
+	}
+
+	// time_range should affect hash
+	hash5 := QueryHash("golang", 1, 0, "en", "day")
+	if hash1 == hash5 {
+		t.Errorf("QueryHash: different time_range should produce different hash")
+	}
+
+	// Hash should be 16 characters (truncated SHA-256)
+	if len(hash1) != 16 {
+		t.Errorf("QueryHash: expected 16 char hash, got %d", len(hash1))
+	}
+}