spring cache - Null key returned for cache operation

Question

I have been working with Spring Cache Abstraction and Ehcache. I'm using the @Cacheable annotation on a target method like so:

@Component
public class DataService {
    @Cacheable(value="movieFindCache", key="#name")
    public String findByDirector(String name) {
        return "hello";
    }
}

This is my jUnit test:

public class ServiceTest extends AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests{

    @Resource
    private DataService dataService;

    @Test
    public void test_service() {
        System.err.println(dataService.findByDirector("Hello"));
    }
}

This is not working fine when I debug with jUnit test. It throws an IllegalArgumentException as follows:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null key returned for cache operation (maybe you are using named params on classes without debug info?) CacheableOperation[public java.lang.String com.eliteams.quick4j.web.service.ExcelDataService.getCarData()] caches=[movieFindCache] | key='#name' | condition='' | unless=''
at org.springframework.util.Assert.notNull(Assert.java:112)
at org.springframework.cache.interceptor.CacheAspectSupport.generateKey(CacheAspectSupport.java:315)
at org.springframework.cache.interceptor.CacheAspectSupport.collectPutRequests(CacheAspectSupport.java:265)

I have the following config:

applicationContext.xml:

<cache:annotation-driven cache-manager="cacheManager"/>
<bean id="ehCacheManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheManagerFactoryBean"
      p:configLocation="classpath:ehcache.xml" p:shared="true"/>
<bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.cache.ehcache.EhCacheCacheManager"
      p:cacheManager-ref="ehCacheManagerFactory"/>

ehcache.xml:

<ehcache xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ehcache.org/ehcache.xsd"
     updateCheck="true"
     monitoring="autodetect"
     dynamicConfig="true">

<diskStore path="java.io.tmpdir" />

<cache name="movieFindCache"
       maxEntriesLocalHeap="10000"
       maxEntriesLocalDisk="1000"
       eternal="false"
       diskSpoolBufferSizeMB="20"
       timeToIdleSeconds="300" timeToLiveSeconds="600"
       memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LFU"
       transactionalMode="off">
    <persistence strategy="localTempSwap" />
</cache>

note: If I don't specify the "key" in the @Cacheable annotations, it works.

Is there anything I forgot to specify? config? annotations?

Answer 1

you could try to replace key with #p0

@Component
public class DataService {
    @Cacheable(value="movieFindCache", key="#p0")
    public String findByDirector(String name) {
        return "hello";
    }
}

reference from Spring Cache Abstraction VS interfaces VS key param ("Null key returned for cache operation" error)