Chapter 1. Using Data Grid as a Spring Cache provider Add Data Grid dependencies to your application and use Spring Cache annotations to store data in embedded or remote caches. 1.1. Setting up Spring caching with Data Grid Add the Data Grid dependencies to your Spring application project. If you use remote caches in a Data Grid Server deployment, you should also configure your Hot Rod client properties. Important Data Grid supports Spring version 5 and version 6. Be aware that Spring 6 requires Java 17. The examples in this document include artifacts for the latest version of Spring. If you want to use Spring 5 use: Remote caches: infinispan-spring5-remote Embedded caches: infinispan-spring5-embedded Procedure Add Data Grid and the Spring integration module to your pom.xml . Remote caches: infinispan-spring6-remote Embedded caches: infinispan-spring6-embedded Tip Spring Boot users can add the following artifacts instead of the infinispan-spring6-embedded : For Spring Boot 3 add infinispan-spring-boot3-starter-embedded For Spring Boot 2.x add infinispan-spring-boot-starter-embedded Configure your Hot Rod client to connect to your Data Grid Server deployment in the hotrod-client.properties file. infinispan.client.hotrod.server_list = 127.0.0.1:11222 infinispan.client.hotrod.auth_username=admin infinispan.client.hotrod.auth_password=changeme Spring Cache dependencies Remote caches <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId> <artifactId>infinispan-spring6-remote</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>USD{version.spring}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> Embedded caches <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId> <artifactId>infinispan-spring6-embedded</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>USD{version.spring}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> Additional resources Configuring Hot Rod Client connections 1.2. Using Data Grid as a Spring Cache provider Add the @EnableCaching annotation to one of your configuration classes and then add the @Cacheable and @CacheEvict annotations to use remote or embedded caches. Prerequisites Add the Data Grid dependencies to your application project. Create the required remote caches and configure Hot Rod client properties if you use a Data Grid Server deployment. Procedure Enable cache annotations in your application context in one of the following ways: Declarative <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache.xsd"> <cache:annotation-driven /> </beans> Programmatic @EnableCaching @Configuration public class Config { } Annotate methods with @Cacheable to cache return values. Tip To reference entries in the cache directly, you must include the key attribute. Annotate methods with @CacheEvict to remove old entries from the cache. Additional resources Spring Framework - Default Key Generation 1.3. Spring Cache annotations The @Cacheable and @CacheEvict annotations add cache capabilities to methods. @Cacheable Stores return values in a cache. @CacheEvict Controls cache size by removing old entries. @Cacheable Taking Book objects as an example, if you want to cache each instance after loading it from a database with a method such as BookDao#findBook(Integer bookId) , you could add the @Cacheable annotation as follows: @Transactional @Cacheable(value = "books", key = "#bookId") public Book findBook(Integer bookId) {...} With the preceding example, when findBook(Integer bookId) returns a Book instance it gets stored in the cache named books . @CacheEvict With the @CacheEvict annotation, you can specify if you want to evict the entire books cache or only the entries that match a specific #bookId. Entire cache eviction Annotate the deleteAllBookEntries() method with @CacheEvict and add the allEntries parameter as follows: @Transactional @CacheEvict (value="books", key = "#bookId", allEntries = true) public void deleteAllBookEntries() {...} Entry based eviction Annotate the deleteBook(Integer bookId) method with @CacheEvict and specify the key associated to the entry as follows: @Transactional @CacheEvict (value="books", key = "#bookId") public void deleteBook(Integer bookId) {...} 1.4. Configuring timeouts for cache operations The Data Grid Spring Cache provider defaults to blocking behaviour when performing read and write operations. Cache operations are synchronous and do not time out. If necessary you can configure a maximum time to wait for operations to complete before they time out. Procedure Configure the following timeout properties in the context XML for your application on either SpringEmbeddedCacheManagerFactoryBean or SpringRemoteCacheManagerFactoryBean . For remote caches, you can also add these properties to the hotrod-client.properties file. Property Description infinispan.spring.operation.read.timeout Specifies the time, in milliseconds, to wait for read operations to complete. The default is 0 which means unlimited wait time. infinispan.spring.operation.write.timeout Specifies the time, in milliseconds, to wait for write operations to complete. The default is 0 which means unlimited wait time. The following example shows the timeout properties in the context XML for SpringRemoteCacheManagerFactoryBean : <bean id="springRemoteCacheManagerConfiguredUsingConfigurationProperties" class="org.infinispan.spring.remote.provider.SpringRemoteCacheManagerFactoryBean"> <property name="configurationProperties"> <props> <prop key="infinispan.spring.operation.read.timeout">500</prop> <prop key="infinispan.spring.operation.write.timeout">700</prop> </props> </property> </bean>

Commands:
infinispan.client.hotrod.server_list = 127.0.0.1:11222 infinispan.client.hotrod.auth_username=admin infinispan.client.hotrod.auth_password=changeme
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId> <artifactId>infinispan-spring6-remote</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>USD{version.spring}</version> </dependency> </dependencies>
<dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.infinispan</groupId> <artifactId>infinispan-spring6-embedded</artifactId> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>USD{version.spring}</version> </dependency> </dependencies>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:cache="http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache http://www.springframework.org/schema/cache/spring-cache.xsd"> <cache:annotation-driven /> </beans>
@EnableCaching @Configuration public class Config { }
@Transactional @Cacheable(value = "books", key = "#bookId") public Book findBook(Integer bookId) {...}
@Transactional @CacheEvict (value="books", key = "#bookId", allEntries = true) public void deleteAllBookEntries() {...}
@Transactional @CacheEvict (value="books", key = "#bookId") public void deleteBook(Integer bookId) {...}
<bean id="springRemoteCacheManagerConfiguredUsingConfigurationProperties" class="org.infinispan.spring.remote.provider.SpringRemoteCacheManagerFactoryBean"> <property name="configurationProperties"> <props> <prop key="infinispan.spring.operation.read.timeout">500</prop> <prop key="infinispan.spring.operation.write.timeout">700</prop> </props> </property> </bean>