Unable to cache using ehcache version 3.4.0 and spring boot 2.0.2.RELEASE

Question

I have tried to implement caching on Spring boot app several ways and this seems to be the right approach but it just logs that

CacheStatistics,CacheManager=urn.X-ehcache.jsr107-default-config,Cache=studentCache
Registering Ehcache MBean javax.cache:type=CacheStatistics,CacheManager=urn.X-ehcache.jsr107-default-config,Cache=studentCache

I have a event logger but I do not see any output from it:

@Component
public class EventLogger implements CacheEventListener<Object, Object> {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EventLogger.class);

    @Override
    public void onEvent(CacheEvent<?, ?> event) {
        LOGGER.info("Event: " + event.getType() + " Key: " + event.getKey() + " old value: " + event.getOldValue() + " new value: " + event.getNewValue());
    }
}

CacheConfig

@Configuration
public class CacheConfig {

    @Bean
    public JCacheManagerCustomizer cacheManagerCustomizer() {
        return new JCacheManagerCustomizer() {

            @Override
            public void customize(CacheManager cacheManager) {
                cacheManager.createCache("studentCache", new MutableConfiguration<>()
                        .setExpiryPolicyFactory(CreatedExpiryPolicy.factoryOf(new Duration(TimeUnit.MINUTES, 5)))
                        .setStoreByValue(false)
                        .setStatisticsEnabled(true));

            }
        };
    }

} 

Cache on method

@RequestMapping(method = GET)
@ResponseBody
Cacheable(value = "studetNode")
    public List<StudentNodeDto> findAll(HttpServletResponse response) {
         val studentNodes = service.findAll();

ehcache.xml located under resources

<config
        xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
        xmlns='http://www.ehcache.org/v3'
        xmlns:jsr107='http://www.ehcache.org/v3/jsr107'>

    <service>
        <jsr107:defaults>
            <jsr107:cache name="studentCache" template="heap-cache"/>
        </jsr107:defaults>
    </service>

    <cache-template name="heap-cache">
        <listeners>
            <listener>
                <class>org.terracotta.ehcache.EventLogger</class>
                <event-firing-mode>ASYNCHRONOUS</event-firing-mode>
                <event-ordering-mode>UNORDERED</event-ordering-mode>
                <events-to-fire-on>CREATED</events-to-fire-on>
                <events-to-fire-on>UPDATED</events-to-fire-on>
                <events-to-fire-on>EXPIRED</events-to-fire-on>
                <events-to-fire-on>REMOVED</events-to-fire-on>
                <events-to-fire-on>EVICTED</events-to-fire-on>
            </listener>
        </listeners>
        <resources>
            <heap unit="entries">2000</heap>
            <offheap unit="MB">100</offheap>
        </resources>
    </cache-template>
</config>

Gradle dependencies springBootVersion = '2.0.2.RELEASE'

    compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter', version: springBootVersion
        compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-web', version: springBootVersion
//Cache
    compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-cache', version: '2.1.1.RELEASE'
    compile group: 'org.ehcache', name: 'ehcache', version: '3.4.0'
    compile group: 'javax.cache', name: 'cache-api', version: '1.1.0'

I have looked over many post and blogs and it appears I am doing this correctl but I have to be wrong somewhere.

@Cacheable key on multiple method arguments

https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/integration.html#cache

https://www.baeldung.com/spring-cache-tutorial

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-caching.html

https://www.baeldung.com/hibernate-second-level-cache

https://medium.com/@igorkosandyak/spring-boot-caching-d74591abe117

Advice?

---------------Update 1-----------------

I am getting an error saying:

    Error creating bean with name 'cacheManager' defined in class path 
    resource
 [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/cache/JCacheCacheConfiguration.class]: Unsatisfied dependency expressed through method 'cacheManager' parameter 0; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'jCacheCacheManager' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/cache/JCacheCacheConfiguration.class]: Bean instantiation via factory method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [javax.cache.CacheManager]: Factory method 'jCacheCacheManager' threw exception; nested exception is org.ehcache.jsr107.MultiCacheException: [Exception 0] org.terracotta.ehcache.EventLogger

I get this when I added:

# caching
spring.cache.jcache.provider=org.ehcache.jsr107.EhcacheCachingProvider
spring.cache.jcache.config=classpath:ehcache.xml

Trace

restartedMain] heConfiguration$JCacheAvailableCondition : Condition JCacheCacheConfiguration.JCacheAvailableCondition on org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.cache.JCacheCacheConfiguration matched due to AnyNestedCondition 1 matched 1 did not; NestedCondition on JCacheCacheConfiguration.JCacheAvailableCondition.CustomJCacheCacheManager @ConditionalOnSingleCandidate (types: javax.cache.CacheManager; SearchStrategy: all) did not find any beans; NestedCondition on JCacheCacheConfiguration.JCacheAvailableCondition.JCacheProvider JCache JCache provider specified

-------------- update 2------------------

I added the following to my gradle file

task showJarLocations {
    doLast {
        configurations.compile.resolve().each { file ->
            println file.canonicalPath
        }
    }
}

and the only jar showing with ehcache is:

/org.ehcache/ehcache/3.4.0/cac1f0840af0040a81401dfa55fa31a4ccc17932/ehcache-3.4.0.jar
and

javax.cache/cache-api/1.1.0/77bdcff7814076dfa61611b0db88487c515150b6/cache-api-1.1.0.jar

I have

spring.cache.jcache.provider=org.ehcache.jsr107.EhcacheCachingProvider
spring.cache.jcache.config=classpath:ehcache.xml

in application.properties too. This should explain why it fails when I add spring.cache.jcache.config=classpath:ehcache.xml.

Butin intellij it is in my project structure:

+--- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-cache:2.1.1.RELEASE
|    +--- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter:2.1.1.RELEASE -> 2.0.2.RELEASE (*)
|    \--- org.springframework:spring-context-support:5.1.3.RELEASE -> 5.0.6.RELEASE
|         +--- org.springframework:spring-beans:5.0.6.RELEASE (*)
|         +--- org.springframework:spring-context:5.0.6.RELEASE (*)
|         \--- org.springframework:spring-core:5.0.6.RELEASE (*)
+--- org.ehcache:ehcache:3.4.0
|    \--- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.7 -> 1.7.25
+--- javax.cache:cache-api:1.1.0
+--- org.apache.tika:tika-core:1.19.1
+--- org.mapstruct:mapstruct-jdk8:1.2.0.Final
+--- org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.2

Answer 1

I found that using the spring-boot-starter-cache can create some subtle problems. If your ehcache.xml isn't found or you misname the cache name, Spring appears to fallback to a generic cache implementation thus hiding the problem. Try removing spring-boot-starter-cache as a dependency and add:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
</dependency>

also add ehcache as an explicit dependency then see if that helps. You shouldn't need to even access a CacheManager since you are using ehcache.xml; the whole point of the xml is to make your configuration declarative and outside the code.