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Can I set a TTL for @Cacheable

I am trying out the @Cacheable annotation support for Spring 3.1 and wondering if there is any way to make the cached data clear out after a time by setting a TTL? Right now from what I can see I need to clear it out myself by using the @CacheEvict, and by using that together with @Scheduled I can make a TTL implementation myself but it seems a bit much for such a simple task?

Solution

  • See http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/spring-framework-reference.html#cache-specific-config:

    How can I set the TTL/TTI/Eviction policy/XXX feature?

    Directly through your cache provider. The cache abstraction is... well, an abstraction not a cache implementation

    So, if you use EHCache, use EHCache's configuration to configure the TTL.

    You could also use Guava's CacheBuilder to build a cache, and pass this cache's ConcurrentMap view to the setStore method of the ConcurrentMapCacheFactoryBean.