From 96bed882625699543de31995a56622778caadafc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: codewinch <81432659+codewinch@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2021 14:02:12 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Just a quick tip about gob.register

---
 README.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c5789cc..dff50f6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,18 @@ import (
 	"time"
 )
 
+func initapp() {
+	// be sure to register your custom types before calling .CacheFrom()
+	gob.Register(MyStruct)
+	gob.Register(MyStruct2)
+}
+
 func main() {
+
+	// only needed if you are loading to/from external storage
+	// with .Items() and .CacheFrom()
+	initapp()
+
 	// Create a cache with a default expiration time of 5 minutes, and which
 	// purges expired items every 10 minutes
 	c := cache.New(5*time.Minute, 10*time.Minute)