Chapter 1. Using Data Grid as a Spring Cache provider

Procedure

1. 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

2. 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

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Procedure

1. 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>

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   Programmatic

   @EnableCaching @Configuration
   public class Config {
   }

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2. Annotate methods with @Cacheable to cache return values.

   Tip

   To reference entries in the cache directly, you must include the key attribute.

3. Annotate methods with @CacheEvict to remove old entries from the cache.