Spring 5 Design Patterns

The @CachePut annotation

As mentioned earlier, the @Cacheable and @CachePut annotations both have the same goal, that is, to populate a cache. But their working is slightly different from each other. @CachePut marks a method for caching, and its result is stored in a cache. For each invocation of that method with the same arguments, it always invokes the actual method without checking whether the return value of that method is available in the cache or not. The following are @CachePut attributes:

• value: This is the name of the cache to use
• key: This is the key for each cached data item
• condition: This is a SpEL expression to evaluate true or false; if false, then the result of caching is not applied to the method call
• unless: This is also ...