Using @Cacheable and @CacheEvict in Spring

Question

I developed a method that use @Cacheable annotation. The code is:

   @Cacheable(value="reporties" , key="{#root.methodName,#manager.name}")
   public List<Employee> getReportiesForManager(Employee manager){
     // code to fetch reporties its a Spring JDBC call
   }

Now, I want to evict this cache after some events:

Some reporties related with manager have been updated (added or removed).

After that, the cache related with the manager should be evicted, in that way, the application will get new data instead of using the existing one in that cache. I developed the following method for that:

@CacheEvict(value="reporties",key="{#name}")
public void evictReportiesCache(String name){}

I call inside the method which updates the relations of the Manager and its reporties. However, this one works intermittently and I am not sure if that's the correct way to evict cache. Also the Cacheable uses #root.methodName as part of key.

Can someone please help me with this cache eviction?

Andres Andres · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-24T08:49:33

You can think of the cache as a Map<key, value>.

Every time you invoke a method with the @Cacheable annotation you write in that Map a value associated to what you define as they key.

Every time you invoke a method with the @CacheEvict annotation you delete the value associated with the key. You can also delete all the entries in the Map.

Using @Cacheable and @CacheEvict in Spring

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