Spring boot caching with redis,key have \xac\xed\x00\x05t\x00\x06

Question

I want to use Spring cache @Cacheable to manager cache. And the real cache is redis.

my code like that:

@PostMapping("/post")
@CachePut(value = "abc", key = "#key")
public String putInRedis(@RequestParam String key, @RequestParam String value) {
    saveInDB(key, value);

    return value;
}

@GetMapping("/get")
@Cacheable(value = "abc", key = "#key")
public String queryRedis(@RequestParam String key) {

    return findByKey(key);
}

After I have the post request which is

localhost:8080/post?key=key&value=value

the redis server appear a weird key

127.0.0.1:6379> keys *
1) "abc:\xac\xed\x00\x05t\x00\x03key"
127.0.0.1:6379> GET "abc:\xac\xed\x00\x05t\x00\x03key"
"\xac\xed\x00\x05t\x00\x05value"

Spring caching

weird-redis-key-with-spring-data-jedis

how to set @Cacheable's Serializer like StringRedisTemplate default：

public StringRedisTemplate() {
    RedisSerializer<String> stringSerializer = new StringRedisSerializer();
    setKeySerializer(stringSerializer);
    setValueSerializer(stringSerializer);
    setHashKeySerializer(stringSerializer);
    setHashValueSerializer(stringSerializer);
}

my application.properties:

spring.redis.host=localhost
spring.redis.password=
spring.redis.port=6379

build.gradle

group 'io.freezhan'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/'
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.RELEASE'
    }
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.13'
    distributionUrl = "https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-$gradleVersion-all.zip"
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'

sourceCompatibility = 1.5

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web") {
        exclude module: "spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
    }
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jetty")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator")
    compile 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.16.10'
    testCompile("junit:junit")
}

Answer 1

The caching - feature of Spring allows to use different cache - implementations. One of them is Redis. It can be used with the class RedisCacheManager. The Spring documentation says:

If Redis is available and configured, the RedisCacheManager is auto-configured.

This is the approach that I propose to influence the Redis - caching - integration:

1. Define the RedisCacheManager as bean on your own.

2. Pass the RedisTemplate to the constructor of RedisCacheManager.

I found an example for this on the Internet using a programmmatic configuration. There is also an example using XML-based configuration.

Answer 2

Create a redis template

private RedisTemplate<String, ?> createRedisTemplateForEntity() {
        RedisTemplate<String, Object> redisTemplate = new RedisTemplate<String, Object>();
        redisTemplate.setConnectionFactory(getRedisConnectionFactory());
        redisTemplate.setHashValueSerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
        redisTemplate.setKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
        redisTemplate.setValueSerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
        redisTemplate.setHashKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
        redisTemplate.afterPropertiesSet();

    return redisTemplate;
}

Why is it creating a weird string as key?

The key is created based on the argument attributes present in your method which is annotated as cacheable. This is how spring reads the cache value from redis.