Issue #1507368 by Dave Reid, damiankloip, tim.plunkett, aspilicious: Added hook for when the view cache is invalidated.

drush/views.drush.inc

@@ -490,8 +490,7 @@ function _views_drush_changestatus($viewnames = array(), $status = NULL) {
       variable_set('views_defaults', $views_status);
       views_invalidate_cache();
       drush_log(dt("Views cache was cleared"), 'ok');
-      menu_router_rebuild();
-      drush_log(dt("Menu cache was cleared"), 'ok');
+      drush_log(dt("Menu cache is set to be rebuilt on the next request."), 'ok');
     }
   }
 }

includes/admin.inc

@@ -722,9 +722,7 @@ function views_ui_add_form_save_submit($form, &$form_state) {
     $form_state['redirect'] = 'admin/structure/views';
   }
   $view->save();
-  menu_router_rebuild();
-  cache('cache_views')->flush();
-  cache_invalidate(array('content' => TRUE));
+
   $form_state['redirect'] = 'admin/structure/views';
   if (!empty($view->display['page'])) {
     $display = $view->display['page'];
@@ -2173,15 +2171,6 @@ function views_ui_edit_view_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
   $form_state['view']->save();
   drupal_set_message(t('The view %name has been saved.', array('%name' => $form_state['view']->get_human_name())));
 
-  // Make sure menu items get rebuilt as neces
-  menu_router_rebuild();
-
-  // Clear the views cache.
-  cache('cache_views')->flush();
-
-  // Clear the page cache.
-  cache_invalidate(array('content' => TRUE));
-
   // Remove this view from cache so we can edit it properly.
   ctools_object_cache_clear('view', $form_state['view']->name);
 }

lib/Drupal/views/View.php

@@ -1862,9 +1862,8 @@ class View extends ViewsDbObject {
 
     $this->save_locale_strings();
 
-    cache('cache_views')->delete('views_urls');
-    // Clear the page cache as well.
-    cache_invalidate(array('content' => TRUE));
+    // Clear caches.
+    views_invalidate_cache();
   }
 
   /**
@@ -1901,10 +1900,8 @@ class View extends ViewsDbObject {
     cache('cache_views')->delete('views_query:' . $this->name);
 
     if ($clear) {
-      // Clear the block and page caches.
-      cache_invalidate(array('content' => TRUE));
-      // Force a menu rebuild when a view is deleted.
-      menu_router_rebuild();
+      // Clear caches.
+      views_invalidate_cache();
     }
   }
 

views.api.php

@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ function hook_views_plugins() {
       'path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'views') . '/modules/taxonomy',
     ),
   );
-  
+
   return array(
     'module' => 'views', // This just tells our themes are elsewhere.
     'argument validator' => array(
@@ -1081,6 +1081,18 @@ function hook_views_ajax_data_alter(&$commands, $view) {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Allow modules to respond to the Views cache being invalidated.
+ *
+ * This hook should fire whenever a view is enabled, disabled, created,
+ * updated, or deleted.
+ *
+ * @see views_invalidate_cache()
+ */
+function hook_views_invalidate_cache() {
+  cache('mymodule')->deletePrefix('views:*');
+}
+
 /**
  * @}
  */

views.module

@@ -951,7 +951,17 @@ function views_field_delete_instance($instance) {
  * Invalidate the views cache, forcing a rebuild on the next grab of table data.
  */
 function views_invalidate_cache() {
+  // Clear the views cache.
   cache('cache_views')->flush();
+
+  // Clear the page and block cache.
+  cache_invalidate(array('content' => TRUE));
+
+  // Set the menu as needed to be rebuilt.
+  variable_set('menu_rebuild_needed', TRUE);
+
+  // Allow modules to respond to the Views cache being cleared.
+  module_invoke_all('views_invalidate_cache');
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1675,8 +1685,6 @@ function views_export_view(&$view, $indent = '') {
 function views_export_status($view, $status) {
   ctools_export_set_object_status($view, $status);
   views_invalidate_cache();
-  // Set the menu to be rebuilt.
-  variable_set('menu_rebuild_needed', TRUE);
 }
 
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