Symfony: impossible to remove from cache

Question

Ok, so this is my issue. I have a page that lists a bunch of categories under a subdomain. I'm trying to clean the cache for that page if the user is logged in. In the action I'm using this:

if ($this->getUser()->isAuthenticated())
{
  if($cache = $this->getContext()->getViewCacheManager())
  {
    $cache->remove('category/index?subdomain='.$this->city->getLabel());
  }
}

However, it doesn't matter how much I try, it won't remove it (the file remains untouched in the cache folder).

My cache.yml file shows the following:

index:
  enabled:     true
  lifetime:    604800

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Ah, nevermind. I was using it on the same action I was trying to remove (in the executeIndex function) which didn't make any sense because being cached as it was, the action wouldn't ever be loaded (at least not until the cached had expired).