Spring Boot 2.0 Hibernate 5 EhCache 3 with JCache

Question

I'm trying to setup Hibernate with EhCache as the second level cache but the TTL is not working.

Here are my dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-cache</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
  <artifactId>hibernate-jcache</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.ehcache</groupId>
  <artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.cache</groupId>
  <artifactId>cache-api</artifactId>
</dependency>

Here's my YAML configuration:

spring:
  jpa:
    show-sql: true
    properties:
      hibernate:
        dialect: Dialect
        cache:
          use_second_level_cache: true
          region.factory_class: org.hibernate.cache.jcache.JCacheRegionFactory
          use_query_cache: true
  cache:
    jcache:
      config: classpath:ehcache.xml

Here's how my Entity class is configured:

@Entity
@javax.persistence.Cacheable
@org.hibernate.annotations.Cache(usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.READ_ONLY)
public class PersonEntity {
  //
}

And the JpaRepository for the entity:

public interface PersonRepository extends JpaRepository<PersonEntity, Integer> {
  @org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.QueryHints({
      @javax.persistence.QueryHint(name = "org.hibernate.cacheable", value = "true")
  })
  List<PersonEntity> findByName(String name);
}

I've configured the cache to expire in 2 seconds, but calling findByName still uses the cache (there are no SQL Queries printed after the first one).

Here's the ehcache.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config xmlns="http://www.ehcache.org/v3">

  <cache-template name="simple">
    <expiry>
      <ttl>2</ttl>
    </expiry>
    <heap>100</heap>
  </cache-template>

  <cache alias="com.sample.PersonEntity" uses-template="simple"/>

</config>

EDIT: I've done some debugging. I've added a break point in org.ehcache.jsr107.ExpiryPolicyToEhcacheExpiry:

javax.cache.expiry.Duration duration = this.expiryPolicy.getExpiryForCreation();

This duration is INFINITE for some reason. So maybe the configuration is not set properly? I know the xml is being read because when I invalidate it (by removing heap tag for example) I get an error.

Answer 1

I think I found the cause of the issue - you didn't specify a location of the ehcache.xml file:

spring:
  jpa:
    properties:
      hibernate:
        javax.cache:
          provider: org.ehcache.jsr107.EhcacheCachingProvider
          uri: classpath:ehcache.xml
        cache:
          use_second_level_cache: true
          region.factory_class: jcache
          use_query_cache: true

in this case Hibernate creates a cache with default configuration. A fragment from my demo project log:

17:15:19 WARN [main] org.hibernate.orm.cache: HHH90001006: Missing cache[user] was created on-the-fly. The created cache will use a provider-specific default configuration: make sure you defined one. You can disable this warning by setting 'hibernate.javax.cache.missing_cache_strategy' to 'create'.