+# Rather than recomputing the url for an email multiple times, we cache it
+# after the first hit. This gives a visible benefit in views where the avatar
+# for the same email is used repeatedly (e.g. shortlog).
+# The cache is shared by all avatar engines (currently gravatar only), which
+# are free to use it as preferred. Since only one avatar engine is used for any
+# given page, there's no risk for cache conflicts.
+our %avatar_cache = ();
+
+# Compute the picon url for a given email, by using the picon search service over at
+# http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/search.html
+sub picon_url {
+ my $email = lc shift;
+ if (!$avatar_cache{$email}) {
+ my ($user, $domain) = split('@', $email);
+ $avatar_cache{$email} =
+ "http://www.cs.indiana.edu/cgi-pub/kinzler/piconsearch.cgi/" .
+ "$domain/$user/" .
+ "users+domains+unknown/up/single";
+ }
+ return $avatar_cache{$email};
+}
+
+# Compute the gravatar url for a given email, if it's not in the cache already.
+# Gravatar stores only the part of the URL before the size, since that's the
+# one computationally more expensive. This also allows reuse of the cache for
+# different sizes (for this particular engine).
+sub gravatar_url {
+ my $email = lc shift;
+ my $size = shift;
+ $avatar_cache{$email} ||=
+ "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/" .
+ Digest::MD5::md5_hex($email) . "?s=";
+ return $avatar_cache{$email} . $size;
+}
+