Ehcache shutdown causing an exception while running test suite

Question

I'm experiencing the following problem.

I have a test suit in my project and each individual test runs fine.

However when I run them as a suite I some of them fails with the following exception:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The dao Cache is not alive (STATUS_SHUTDOWN)
    at net.sf.ehcache.Cache$CacheStatus.checkAlive(Cache.java:4269)
    at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.checkStatus(Cache.java:2703)
    at net.sf.ehcache.Cache.get(Cache.java:1576)
    at org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheCache.get(EhCacheCache.java:61)
    at org.springframework.cache.interceptor.CacheAspectSupport.inspectCacheables(CacheAspectSupport.java:310)
    at org.springframework.cache.interceptor.CacheAspectSupport.execute(CacheAspectSupport.java:198)
    at org.springframework.cache.interceptor.CacheInterceptor.invoke(CacheInterceptor.java:66)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:90)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)

Is there a way to avoid this behavior, i.e. keep the cache alive across multiple test or shutting it down properly?

Answer 1

try to set shared property to false in EhCacheManagerFactoryBean or EhCacheCacheManager in the testing context.

Answer 2

Make a seperate cache config for tests only! and put scope "prototype"

@Configuration
@EnableCaching
public class EhCacheConfig {

 @Bean(name = "cacheManager")
 @Scope("prototype")
 public CacheManager getCacheManager() {
    return new EhCacheCacheManager(getEhCacheFactory().getObject());
 }

 @Bean
 @Scope("prototype")
 public EhCacheManagerFactoryBean getEhCacheFactory() {
    EhCacheManagerFactoryBean factoryBean = new EhCacheManagerFactoryBean();
    factoryBean.setConfigLocation(new ClassPathResource("ehcache.xml"));
    factoryBean.setShared(true);
    return factoryBean;
 }
}