Can you revalidate a Route Handler from the full route cache on demand?

[manic plank]

Assume a simple route handler such as:

/api/test/route.ts:

export async function GET() {
  const random = Math.random();
  console.log(`generated new random value ${random}`);
  return Response.json({ random });
}

This will be cached on build time and never revalidated.

You can make it revalidate with time based revalidation such as:
export const revalidate: 60; for 60 second duration of cache for example.

But how can you clear this response from the full route cache on demand?

I would assume you can call revalidatePath or revalidateTag with value /api/test but doing this in production mode of NextJS does not clear the cache.

Is there a way?

[mortal lark]

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[crystal steeple]

To keep everyone on the same page: #1286338763319939102 message

[crystal steeple]

This thread is solved by: #1286338763319939102 message

[manic plank]

In summary for anyone else reading this later:
It is not possible utilizing the full route cache, but you can do the next best thing to move your full response into unstable_cache, see example in marked solution.