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Table of Contents

Preface

The Spring Data Redis project applies core Spring concepts to the development of solutions using a key-value style data store. We provide a "template" as a high-level abstraction for sending and receiving messages. You will notice similarities to the JDBC support in the Spring Framework.

1. New Features

New and noteworthy in the latest releases.

1.1. New in Spring Data Redis 1.8

  • Upgrade to Jedis 2.9.

  • Upgrade to Lettuce 4.2 (Note: Lettuce 4.2 requires Java 8).

  • Support for Redis GEO commands.

  • Support for Geospatial Indexes using Spring Data Repository abstractions (see Geospatial Index).

  • MappingRedisConverter based HashMapper implementation (see Hash mapping).

  • Support for PartialUpdate in repository support (see Persisting Partial Updates).

  • SSL support for connections to Redis cluster.

  • Support for client name via ConnectionFactory when using Jedis.

1.2. New in Spring Data Redis 1.7

1.3. New in Spring Data Redis 1.6

  • The Lettuce Redis driver switched from wg/lettuce to mp911de/lettuce.

  • Support for ZRANGEBYLEX.

  • Enhanced range operations for ZSET s including +inf / -inf.

  • Performance improvements in RedisCache now releasing connections earlier.

  • Generic Jackson2 RedisSerializer making use of Jackson’s polymorphic deserialization.

1.4. New in Spring Data Redis 1.5

  • Add support for Redis HyperLogLog commands PFADD, PFCOUNT and PFMERGE.

  • Configurable JavaType lookup for Jackson based RedisSerializers.

  • PropertySource based configuration for connecting to Redis Sentinel (see: Redis Sentinel Support).

Introduction

This document is the reference guide for Spring Data Redis (SDR) Support. It explains Key Value module concepts and semantics and the syntax for various stores namespaces.

For an introduction to key value stores or Spring, or Spring Data examples, please refer to Getting Started - this documentation refers only to Spring Data Redis Support and assumes the user is familiar with the key value storages and Spring concepts.

2. Why Spring Data Redis?

The Spring Framework is the leading full-stack Java/JEE application framework. It provides a lightweight container and a non-invasive programming model enabled by the use of dependency injection, AOP, and portable service abstractions.

NoSQL storages provide an alternative to classical RDBMS for horizontal scalability and speed. In terms of implementation, Key Value stores represent one of the largest (and oldest) members in the NoSQL space.

The Spring Data Redis (or SDR) framework makes it easy to write Spring applications that use the Redis key value store by eliminating the redundant tasks and boiler plate code required for interacting with the store through Spring’s excellent infrastructure support.

3. Requirements

Spring Data Redis 1.x binaries requires JDK level 6.0 and above, and Spring Framework 4.3.15.RELEASE and above.

In terms of key value stores, Redis 2.6.x or higher is required. Spring Data Redis is currently tested against the latest 3.2 release.

4. Getting Started

Learning a new framework is not always straight forward. In this section, we (the Spring Data team) tried to provide, what we think is, an easy to follow guide for starting with the Spring Data Redis module. Of course, feel free to create your own learning 'path' as you see fit and, if possible, please report back any improvements to the documentation that can help others.

4.1. First Steps

As explained in Why Spring Data Redis?, Spring Data Redis (SDR) provides integration between Spring framework and the Redis key value store. Thus, it is important to become acquainted with both of these frameworks (storages or environments depending on how you want to name them). Throughout the SDR documentation, each section provides links to resources relevant however, it is best to become familiar with these topics beforehand.

4.1.1. Knowing Spring

Spring Data uses heavily Spring framework’s core functionality, such as the IoC container, resource abstract or AOP infrastructure. While it is not important to know the Spring APIs, understanding the concepts behind them is. At a minimum, the idea behind IoC should be familiar. That being said, the more knowledge one has about the Spring, the faster she will pick up Spring Data Redis. Besides the very comprehensive (and sometimes disarming) documentation that explains in detail the Spring Framework, there are a lot of articles, blog entries and books on the matter - take a look at the Spring Guides home page for more information. In general, this should be the starting point for developers wanting to try Spring DR.

4.1.2. Knowing NoSQL and Key Value stores

NoSQL stores have taken the storage world by storm. It is a vast domain with a plethora of solutions, terms and patterns (to make things worse even the term itself has multiple meanings). While some of the principles are common, it is crucial that the user is familiar to some degree with the stores supported by SDR. The best way to get acquainted with these solutions is to read their documentation and follow their examples - it usually doesn’t take more then 5-10 minutes to go through them and if you are coming from an RDMBS-only background many times these exercises can be an eye opener.

4.1.3. Trying Out The Samples

One can find various samples for key value stores in the dedicated example repo, at http://github.com/spring-projects/spring-data-keyvalue-examples. For Spring Data Redis, of interest is the retwisj sample, a Twitter-clone built on top of Redis which can be run locally or be deployed into the cloud. See its documentation, the following blog entry or the live instance for more information.

4.2. Need Help?

If you encounter issues or you are just looking for advice, feel free to use one of the links below:

4.2.1. Community Support

The Spring Data tag on Stackoverflow is a message board for all Spring Data (not just Redis) users to share information and help each other. Note that registration is needed only for posting.

4.2.2. Professional Support

Professional, from-the-source support, with guaranteed response time, is available from Pivotal Software, Inc., the company behind Spring Data and Spring.

4.3. Following Development

For information on the Spring Data source code repository, nightly builds and snapshot artifacts please see the Spring Data home page.

You can help make Spring Data best serve the needs of the Spring community by interacting with developers on Stackoverflow at either spring-data or spring-data-redis.

If you encounter a bug or want to suggest an improvement, please create a ticket on the Spring Data issue tracker.

To stay up to date with the latest news and announcements in the Spring eco system, subscribe to the Spring Community Portal.

Lastly, you can follow the Spring blog or the project team (Thomas and Christoph) on Twitter.

Reference Documentation

Document structure

This part of the reference documentation explains the core functionality offered by Spring Data Redis.

Redis support introduces the Redis module feature set.

5. Redis support

One of the key value stores supported by Spring Data is Redis. To quote the project home page:

Redis is an advanced key-value store. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also lists, sets, and ordered sets. All this data types can be manipulated with atomic operations to push/pop elements, add/remove elements, perform server side union, intersection, difference between sets, and so forth. Redis supports different kind of sorting abilities.

Spring Data Redis provides easy configuration and access to Redis from Spring applications. It offers both low-level and high-level abstractions for interacting with the store, freeing the user from infrastructural concerns.

5.1. Redis Requirements

Spring Redis requires Redis 2.6 or above and Java SE 6.0 or above . In terms of language bindings (or connectors), Spring Redis integrates with Jedis, JRedis (Deprecated since 1.7), SRP (Deprecated since 1.7) and Lettuce, four popular open source Java libraries for Redis. If you are aware of any other connector that we should be integrating with please send us feedback.

5.2. Redis Support High Level View

The Redis support provides several components (in order of dependencies):

For most tasks, the high-level abstractions and support services are the best choice. Note that at any point, one can move between layers - for example, it’s very easy to get a hold of the low level connection (or even the native library) to communicate directly with Redis.

5.3. Connecting to Redis

One of the first tasks when using Redis and Spring is to connect to the store through the IoC container. To do that, a Java connector (or binding) is required. No matter the library one chooses, there is only one set of Spring Data Redis API that one needs to use that behaves consistently across all connectors, namely the org.springframework.data.redis.connection package and its RedisConnection and RedisConnectionFactory interfaces for working with and retrieving active connections to Redis.

5.3.1. RedisConnection and RedisConnectionFactory

RedisConnection provides the building block for Redis communication as it handles the communication with the Redis back-end. It also automatically translates the underlying connecting library exceptions to Spring’s consistent DAO exception hierarchy so one can switch the connectors without any code changes as the operation semantics remain the same.

For the corner cases where the native library API is required, RedisConnection provides a dedicated method getNativeConnection which returns the raw, underlying object used for communication.

Active RedisConnection s are created through RedisConnectionFactory. In addition, the factories act as PersistenceExceptionTranslator s, meaning once declared, they allow one to do transparent exception translation. For example, exception translation through the use of the @Repository annotation and AOP. For more information see the dedicated section in Spring Framework documentation.

Depending on the underlying configuration, the factory can return a new connection or an existing connection (in case a pool or shared native connection is used).

The easiest way to work with a RedisConnectionFactory is to configure the appropriate connector through the IoC container and inject it into the using class.

Unfortunately, currently, not all connectors support all Redis features. When invoking a method on the Connection API that is unsupported by the underlying library, an UnsupportedOperationException is thrown. This situation is likely to be fixed in the future, as the various connectors mature.

5.3.2. Configuring Jedis connector

Jedis is one of the connectors supported by the Spring Data Redis module through the org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jedis package. In its simplest form, the Jedis configuration looks as follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

  <!-- Jedis ConnectionFactory -->
  <bean id="jedisConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jedis.JedisConnectionFactory"/>

</beans>

For production use however, one might want to tweak the settings such as the host or password:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  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">

  <bean id="jedisConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jedis.JedisConnectionFactory" p:host-name="server" p:port="6379" />

</beans>

5.3.3. Configuring JRedis connector (Deprecated since 1.7)

JRedis is another popular, open-source connector supported by Spring Data Redis through the org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jredis package.

A typical JRedis configuration can looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  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">

  <bean id="jredisConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jredis.JredisConnectionFactory" p:host-name="server" p:port="6379"/>

</beans>

The configuration is quite similar to Jedis, with one notable exception. By default, the JedisConnectionFactory pools connections. In order to use a connection pool with JRedis, configure the JredisConnectionFactory with an instance of JredisPool. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

  <bean id="jredisConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jredis.JredisConnectionFactory">
    <constructor-arg>
      <bean class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jredis.DefaultJredisPool">
        <constructor-arg value="localhost" />
        <constructor-arg value="6379" />
      </bean>
    </constructor-arg>
  </bean>

</beans>

5.3.4. Configuring SRP connector (Deprecated since 1.7)

SRP (an acronym for Sam’s Redis Protocol) is the third open-source connector supported by Spring Data Redis through the org.springframework.data.redis.connection.srp package.

By now, its configuration is probably easy to guess:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  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">

  <bean id="srpConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.srp.SrpConnectionFactory" p:host-name="server" p:port="6379"/>

</beans>

Needless to say, the configuration is quite similar to that of the other connectors.

5.3.5. Configuring Lettuce connector

Lettuce is the fourth open-source connector supported by Spring Data Redis through the org.springframework.data.redis.connection.lettuce package.

Its configuration is probably easy to guess:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  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">

  <bean id="lettuceConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.lettuce.LettuceConnectionFactory" p:host-name="server" p:port="6379"/>

</beans>

There are also a few Lettuce-specific connection parameters that can be tweaked. By default, all LettuceConnection s created by the LettuceConnectionFactory share the same thread-safe native connection for all non-blocking and non-transactional operations. Set shareNativeConnection to false to use a dedicated connection each time. LettuceConnectionFactory can also be configured with a LettucePool to use for pooling blocking and transactional connections, or all connections if shareNativeConnection is set to false.

5.4. Redis Sentinel Support

For dealing with high available Redis there is support for Redis Sentinel using RedisSentinelConfiguration.

Please note that currently only Jedis and lettuce Lettuce support Redis Sentinel.
/**
 * jedis
 */
@Bean
public RedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory() {
  RedisSentinelConfiguration sentinelConfig = new RedisSentinelConfiguration() .master("mymaster")
  .sentinel("127.0.0.1", 26379) .sentinel("127.0.0.1", 26380);
  return new JedisConnectionFactory(sentinelConfig);
}

/**
 * lettuce
 */
@Bean
public RedisConnectionFactory lettuceConnectionFactory() {
  RedisSentinelConfiguration sentinelConfig = new RedisSentinelConfiguration().master("mymaster")
  .sentinel("127.0.0.1", 26379) .sentinel("127.0.0.1", 26380);
  return new LettuceConnectionFactory(sentinelConfig);
}

RedisSentinelConfiguration can also be defined via PropertySource.

Configuration Properties
  • spring.redis.sentinel.master: name of the master node.

  • spring.redis.sentinel.nodes: Comma delimited list of host:port pairs.

Sometimes direct interaction with the one of the Sentinels is required. Using RedisConnectionFactory.getSentinelConnection() or RedisConnection.getSentinelCommands() gives you access to the first active Sentinel configured.

5.5. Working with Objects through RedisTemplate

Most users are likely to use RedisTemplate and its coresponding package org.springframework.data.redis.core - the template is in fact the central class of the Redis module due to its rich feature set. The template offers a high-level abstraction for Redis interactions. While RedisConnection offers low level methods that accept and return binary values (byte arrays), the template takes care of serialization and connection management, freeing the user from dealing with such details.

Moreover, the template provides operations views (following the grouping from Redis command reference) that offer rich, generified interfaces for working against a certain type or certain key (through the KeyBound interfaces) as described below:

Table 1. Operational views
Interface Description

Key Type Operations

ValueOperations

Redis string (or value) operations

ListOperations

Redis list operations

SetOperations

Redis set operations

ZSetOperations

Redis zset (or sorted set) operations

HashOperations

Redis hash operations

HyperLogLogOperations

Redis HyperLogLog operations like (pfadd, pfcount,…​)

GeoOperations

Redis geospatial operations like GEOADD, GEORADIUS,…​)

Key Bound Operations

BoundValueOperations

Redis string (or value) key bound operations

BoundListOperations

Redis list key bound operations

BoundSetOperations

Redis set key bound operations

BoundZSetOperations

Redis zset (or sorted set) key bound operations

BoundHashOperations

Redis hash key bound operations

BoundGeoOperations

Redis key bound geospatial operations.

Once configured, the template is thread-safe and can be reused across multiple instances.

Out of the box, RedisTemplate uses a Java-based serializer for most of its operations. This means that any object written or read by the template will be serialized/deserialized through Java. The serialization mechanism can be easily changed on the template, and the Redis module offers several implementations available in the org.springframework.data.redis.serializer package - see Serializers for more information. You can also set any of the serializers to null and use RedisTemplate with raw byte arrays by setting the enableDefaultSerializer property to false. Note that the template requires all keys to be non-null - values can be null as long as the underlying serializer accepts them; read the javadoc of each serializer for more information.

For cases where a certain template view is needed, declare the view as a dependency and inject the template: the container will automatically perform the conversion eliminating the opsFor[X] calls:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  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">

  <bean id="jedisConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jedis.JedisConnectionFactory" p:use-pool="true"/>
  <!-- redis template definition -->
  <bean id="redisTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.redis.core.RedisTemplate" p:connection-factory-ref="jedisConnectionFactory"/>
  ...

</beans>
public class Example {

  // inject the actual template
  @Autowired
  private RedisTemplate<String, String> template;

  // inject the template as ListOperations
  @Resource(name="redisTemplate")
  private ListOperations<String, String> listOps;

  public void addLink(String userId, URL url) {
    listOps.leftPush(userId, url.toExternalForm());
  }
}

5.6. String-focused convenience classes

Since it’s quite common for the keys and values stored in Redis to be java.lang.String, the Redis modules provides two extensions to RedisConnection and RedisTemplate, respectively the StringRedisConnection (and its DefaultStringRedisConnection implementation) and StringRedisTemplate as a convenient one-stop solution for intensive String operations. In addition to being bound to String keys, the template and the connection use the StringRedisSerializer underneath which means the stored keys and values are human readable (assuming the same encoding is used both in Redis and your code). For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  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">

  <bean id="jedisConnectionFactory" class="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.jedis.JedisConnectionFactory" p:use-pool="true"/>

  <bean id="stringRedisTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.redis.core.StringRedisTemplate" p:connection-factory-ref="jedisConnectionFactory"/>
  ...
</beans>
public class Example {

  @Autowired
  private StringRedisTemplate redisTemplate;

  public void addLink(String userId, URL url) {
    redisTemplate.opsForList().leftPush(userId, url.toExternalForm());
  }
}

As with the other Spring templates, RedisTemplate and StringRedisTemplate allow the developer to talk directly to Redis through the RedisCallback interface. This gives complete control to the developer as it talks directly to the RedisConnection. Note that the callback receives an instance of StringRedisConnection when a StringRedisTemplate is used.

public void useCallback() {

  redisTemplate.execute(new RedisCallback<Object>() {
    public Object doInRedis(RedisConnection connection) throws DataAccessException {
      Long size = connection.dbSize();
      // Can cast to StringRedisConnection if using a StringRedisTemplate
      ((StringRedisConnection)connection).set("key", "value");
    }
   });
}

5.7. Serializers

From the framework perspective, the data stored in Redis is just bytes. While Redis itself supports various types, for the most part these refer to the way the data is stored rather than what it represents. It is up to the user to decide whether the information gets translated into Strings or any other objects. The conversion between the user (custom) types and raw data (and vice-versa) is handled in Spring Data Redis through the RedisSerializer interface (package org.springframework.data.redis.serializer) which as the name implies, takes care of the serialization process. Multiple implementations are available out of the box, two of which have been already mentioned before in this documentation: the StringRedisSerializer and the JdkSerializationRedisSerializer. However one can use OxmSerializer for Object/XML mapping through Spring 3 OXM support or either JacksonJsonRedisSerializer, Jackson2JsonRedisSerializer or GenericJackson2JsonRedisSerializer for storing data in JSON format. Do note that the storage format is not limited only to values - it can be used for keys, values or hashes without any restrictions.

RedisCache and RedisTemplate are configured by default to use Java native serialization. Java native serialization is known for allowing remote code execution caused by payloads that exploit vulnerable libraries and classes injecting unverified bytecode. Manipulated input could lead to unwanted code execution in the application during the deserialization step. As a consequence, do not use serialization in untrusted environments. In general, we strongly recommend any other message format (e.g. JSON) instead.

If you are concerned about security vulnerabilities due to Java serialization, consider the general-purpose serialization filter mechanism at the core JVM level, originally developed for JDK 9 but backported to JDK 8, 7 and 6 in the meantime:

5.8. Hash mapping

Data can be stored using various data structures within Redis. You already learned about Jackson2JsonRedisSerializer which can convert objects in JSON format. JSON can be ideally stored as value using plain keys. A more sophisticated mapping of structured objects can be achieved using Redis Hashes. Spring Data Redis offers various strategies for mapping data to hashes depending on the use case.

  1. Direct mapping using HashOperations and a serializer

  2. Using Redis Repositories

  3. Using HashMapper and HashOperations

5.8.1. Hash mappers

Hash mappers are converters to map objects to a Map<K, V> and back. HashMapper is intended for using with Redis Hashes.

Multiple implementations are available out of the box:

  1. BeanUtilsHashMapper using Spring’s BeanUtils.

  2. ObjectHashMapper using Object to Hash Mapping.

  3. Jackson2HashMapper using FasterXML Jackson.

public class Person {
  String firstname;
  String lastname;

  // …
}

public class HashMapping {

  @Autowired
  HashOperations<String, byte[], byte[]> hashOperations;

  HashMapper<Object, byte[], byte[]> mapper = new ObjectHashMapper();

  public void writeHash(String key, Person person) {

    Map<byte[], byte[]> mappedHash = mapper.toHash(person);
    hashOperations.putAll(key, mappedHash);
  }

  public Person loadHash(String key) {

    Map<byte[], byte[]> loadedHash = hashOperations.entries("key");
    return (Person) mapper.fromHash(loadedHash);
  }
}

5.8.2. Jackson2HashMapper

Jackson2HashMapper provides Redis Hash mapping for domain objects using FasterXML Jackson. Jackson2HashMapper can map data map top-level properties as Hash field names and optionally flatten the structure. Simple types map to simple values. Complex types (nested objects, collections, maps) are represented as nested JSON.

Flattening creates individual hash entries for all nested properties and resolves complex types into simple types, as far as possible.

public class Person {
  String firstname;
  String lastname;
  Address address;
}

public class Address {
  String city;
  String country;
}
Table 2. Normal Mapping
Hash Field Value

firstname

Jon

lastname

Snow

address

{ "city" : "Castle Black", "country" : "The North" }

Table 3. Flat Mapping
Hash Field Value

firstname

Jon

lastname

Snow

address.city

Castle Black

address.country

The North

Flattening requires all property names to not interfere with the JSON path. Using dots or brackets in map keys or as property names is not supported using flattening. The resulting hash cannot be mapped back into an Object.

5.9. Redis Messaging/PubSub

Spring Data provides dedicated messaging integration for Redis, very similar in functionality and naming to the JMS integration in Spring Framework; in fact, users familiar with the JMS support in Spring should feel right at home.

Redis messaging can be roughly divided into two areas of functionality, namely the production or publication and consumption or subscription of messages, hence the shortcut pubsub (Publish/Subscribe). The RedisTemplate class is used for message production. For asynchronous reception similar to Java EE’s message-driven bean style, Spring Data provides a dedicated message listener container that is used to create Message-Driven POJOs (MDPs) and for synchronous reception, the RedisConnection contract.

The package org.springframework.data.redis.connection and org.springframework.data.redis.listener provide the core functionality for using Redis messaging.

5.9.1. Sending/Publishing messages

To publish a message, one can use, as with the other operations, either the low-level RedisConnection or the high-level RedisTemplate. Both entities offer the publish method that accepts as an argument the message that needs to be sent as well as the destination channel. While RedisConnection requires raw-data (array of bytes), the RedisTemplate allow arbitrary objects to be passed in as messages:

// send message through connection RedisConnection con = ...
byte[] msg = ...
byte[] channel = ...
con.publish(msg, channel); // send message through RedisTemplate
RedisTemplate template = ...
template.convertAndSend("hello!", "world");

5.9.2. Receiving/Subscribing for messages

On the receiving side, one can subscribe to one or multiple channels either by naming them directly or by using pattern matching. The latter approach is quite useful as it not only allows multiple subscriptions to be created with one command but to also listen on channels not yet created at subscription time (as long as they match the pattern).

At the low-level, RedisConnection offers subscribe and pSubscribe methods that map the Redis commands for subscribing by channel respectively by pattern. Note that multiple channels or patterns can be used as arguments. To change the subscription of a connection or simply query whether it is listening or not, RedisConnection provides getSubscription and isSubscribed method.

Subscription commands in Spring Data Redis are blocking. That is, calling subscribe on a connection will cause the current thread to block as it will start waiting for messages - the thread will be released only if the subscription is canceled, that is an additional thread invokes unsubscribe or pUnsubscribe on the same connection. See message listener container below for a solution to this problem.

As mentioned above, once subscribed a connection starts waiting for messages. No other commands can be invoked on it except for adding new subscriptions or modifying/canceling the existing ones. That is, invoking anything other then subscribe, pSubscribe, unsubscribe, or pUnsubscribe is illegal and will throw an exception.

In order to subscribe for messages, one needs to implement the MessageListener callback: each time a new message arrives, the callback gets invoked and the user code executed through onMessage method. The interface gives access not only to the actual message but to the channel it has been received through and the pattern (if any) used by the subscription to match the channel. This information allows the callee to differentiate between various messages not just by content but also through data.

Message Listener Containers

Due to its blocking nature, low-level subscription is not attractive as it requires connection and thread management for every single listener. To alleviate this problem, Spring Data offers RedisMessageListenerContainer which does all the heavy lifting on behalf of the user - users familiar with EJB and JMS should find the concepts familiar as it is designed as close as possible to the support in Spring Framework and its message-driven POJOs (MDPs)

RedisMessageListenerContainer acts as a message listener container; it is used to receive messages from a Redis channel and drive the MessageListener s that are injected into it. The listener container is responsible for all threading of message reception and dispatches into the listener for processing. A message listener container is the intermediary between an MDP and a messaging provider, and takes care of registering to receive messages, resource acquisition and release, exception conversion and the like. This allows you as an application developer to write the (possibly complex) business logic associated with receiving a message (and reacting to it), and delegates boilerplate Redis infrastructure concerns to the framework.

Furthermore, to minimize the application footprint, RedisMessageListenerContainer allows one connection and one thread to be shared by multiple listeners even though they do not share a subscription. Thus no matter how many listeners or channels an application tracks, the runtime cost will remain the same through out its lifetime. Moreover, the container allows runtime configuration changes so one can add or remove listeners while an application is running without the need for restart. Additionally, the container uses a lazy subscription approach, using a RedisConnection only when needed - if all the listeners are unsubscribed, cleanup is automatically performed and the used thread released.

To help with the asynch manner of messages, the container requires a java.util.concurrent.Executor ( or Spring’s TaskExecutor) for dispatching the messages. Depending on the load, the number of listeners or the runtime environment, one should change or tweak the executor to better serve her needs - in particular in managed environments (such as app servers), it is highly recommended to pick a a proper TaskExecutor to take advantage of its runtime.

The MessageListenerAdapter

The MessageListenerAdapter class is the final component in Spring’s asynchronous messaging support: in a nutshell, it allows you to expose almost any class as a MDP (there are of course some constraints).

Consider the following interface definition. Notice that although the interface doesn’t extend the MessageListener interface, it can still be used as a MDP via the use of the MessageListenerAdapter class. Notice also how the various message handling methods are strongly typed according to the contents of the various Message types that they can receive and handle. In addition, the channel or pattern to which a message is sent can be passed in to the method as the second argument of type String:

public interface MessageDelegate {
  void handleMessage(String message);
  void handleMessage(Map message); void handleMessage(byte[] message);
  void handleMessage(Serializable message);
  // pass the channel/pattern as well
  void handleMessage(Serializable message, String channel);
 }
public class DefaultMessageDelegate implements MessageDelegate {
  // implementation elided for clarity...
}

In particular, note how the above implementation of the MessageDelegate interface (the above DefaultMessageDelegate class) has no Redis dependencies at all. It truly is a POJO that we will make into an MDP via the following configuration.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:redis="http://www.springframework.org/schema/redis"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/redis http://www.springframework.org/schema/redis/spring-redis.xsd">

<!-- the default ConnectionFactory -->
<redis:listener-container>
  <!-- the method attribute can be skipped as the default method name is "handleMessage" -->
  <redis:listener ref="listener" method="handleMessage" topic="chatroom" />
</redis:listener-container>

<bean id="listener" class="redisexample.DefaultMessageDelegate"/>
 ...
<beans>
The listener topic can be either a channel (e.g. topic="chatroom") or a pattern (e.g. topic="*room")

The example above uses the Redis namespace to declare the message listener container and automatically register the POJOs as listeners. The full blown, beans definition is displayed below:

<bean id="messageListener" class="org.springframework.data.redis.listener.adapter.MessageListenerAdapter">
  <constructor-arg>
    <bean class="redisexample.DefaultMessageDelegate"/>
  </constructor-arg>
</bean>

<bean id="redisContainer" class="org.springframework.data.redis.listener.RedisMessageListenerContainer">
  <property name="connectionFactory" ref="connectionFactory"/>
  <property name="messageListeners">
    <map>
      <entry key-ref="messageListener">
        <bean class="org.springframework.data.redis.listener.ChannelTopic">
          <constructor-arg value="chatroom">
        </bean>
      </entry>
    </map>
  </property>
</bean>

Each time a message is received, the adapter automatically performs translation (using the configured RedisSerializer) between the low-level format and the required object type transparently. Any exception caused by the method invocation is caught and handled by the container (by default, being logged).

5.10. Redis Transactions

Redis provides support for transactions through the multi, exec, and discard commands. These operations are available on RedisTemplate, however RedisTemplate is not guaranteed to execute all operations in the transaction using the same connection.

Spring Data Redis provides the SessionCallback interface for use when multiple operations need to be performed with the same connection, as when using Redis transactions. For example:

//execute a transaction
List<Object> txResults = redisTemplate.execute(new SessionCallback<List<Object>>() {
  public List<Object> execute(RedisOperations operations) throws DataAccessException {
    operations.multi();
    operations.opsForSet().add("key", "value1");

    // This will contain the results of all ops in the transaction
    return operations.exec();
  }
});
System.out.println("Number of items added to set: " + txResults.get(0));

RedisTemplate will use its value, hash key, and hash value serializers to deserialize all results of exec before returning. There is an additional exec method that allows you to pass a custom serializer for transaction results.

An important change has been made to the exec methods of RedisConnection and RedisTemplate in version 1.1. Previously these methods returned the results of transactions directly from the connectors. This means that the data types often differed from those returned from the methods of RedisConnection. For example, zAdd returns a boolean indicating that the element has been added to the sorted set. Most connectors return this value as a long and Spring Data Redis performs the conversion. Another common difference is that most connectors return a status reply (usually the String "OK") for operations like set. These replies are typically discarded by Spring Data Redis. Prior to 1.1, these conversions were not performed on the results of exec. Also, results were not deserialized in RedisTemplate, so they often included raw byte arrays. If this change breaks your application, you can set convertPipelineAndTxResults to false on your RedisConnectionFactory to disable this behavior.

5.10.1. @Transactional Support

Transaction Support is disabled by default and has to be explicitly enabled for each RedisTemplate in use by setting setEnableTransactionSupport(true). This will force binding the RedisConnection in use to the current Thread triggering MULTI. If the transaction finishes without errors, EXEC is called, otherwise DISCARD. Once in MULTI, RedisConnection would queue write operations, all readonly operations, such as KEYS are piped to a fresh (non thread bound) RedisConnection.

/** Sample Configuration **/
@Configuration
public class RedisTxContextConfiguration {
  @Bean
  public StringRedisTemplate redisTemplate() {
    StringRedisTemplate template = new StringRedisTemplate(redisConnectionFactory());
    // explicitly enable transaction support
    template.setEnableTransactionSupport(true);
    return template;
  }

  @Bean
  public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager() throws SQLException {
    return new DataSourceTransactionManager(dataSource());
  }

  @Bean
  public RedisConnectionFactory redisConnectionFactory( // jedis, lettuce, srp,... );

  @Bean
  public DataSource dataSource() throws SQLException { // ... }
}
/** Usage Constrainsts **/

// executed on thread bound connection
template.opsForValue().set("foo", "bar");

// read operation executed on a free (not tx-aware)
connection template.keys("*");

// returns null as values set within transaction are not visible
template.opsForValue().get("foo");

5.11. Pipelining

Redis provides support for pipelining, which involves sending multiple commands to the server without waiting for the replies and then reading the replies in a single step. Pipelining can improve performance when you need to send several commands in a row, such as adding many elements to the same List.

Spring Data Redis provides several RedisTemplate methods for executing commands in a pipeline. If you don’t care about the results of the pipelined operations, you can use the standard execute method, passing true for the pipeline argument. The executePipelined methods will execute the provided RedisCallback or SessionCallback in a pipeline and return the results. For example:

//pop a specified number of items from a queue
List<Object> results = stringRedisTemplate.executePipelined(
  new RedisCallback<Object>() {
    public Object doInRedis(RedisConnection connection) throws DataAccessException {
      StringRedisConnection stringRedisConn = (StringRedisConnection)connection;
      for(int i=0; i< batchSize; i++) {
        stringRedisConn.rPop("myqueue");
      }
    return null;
  }
});

The example above executes a bulk right pop of items from a queue in a pipeline. The results List contains all of the popped items. RedisTemplate uses its value, hash key, and hash value serializers to deserialize all results before returning, so the returned items in the above example will be Strings. There are additional executePipelined methods that allow you to pass a custom serializer for pipelined results.

Note that the value returned from the RedisCallback is required to be null, as this value is discarded in favor of returning the results of the pipelined commands.

An important change has been made to the closePipeline method of RedisConnection in version 1.1. Previously this method returned the results of pipelined operations directly from the connectors. This means that the data types often differed from those returned by the methods of RedisConnection. For example, zAdd returns a boolean indicating that the element has been added to the sorted set. Most connectors return this value as a long and Spring Data Redis performs the conversion. Another common difference is that most connectors return a status reply (usually the String "OK") for operations like set. These replies are typically discarded by Spring Data Redis. Prior to 1.1, these conversions were not performed on the results of closePipeline. If this change breaks your application, you can set convertPipelineAndTxResults to false on your RedisConnectionFactory to disable this behavior.

5.12. Redis Scripting

Redis versions 2.6 and higher provide support for execution of Lua scripts through the eval and evalsha commands. Spring Data Redis provides a high-level abstraction for script execution that handles serialization and automatically makes use of the Redis script cache.

Scripts can be run through the execute methods of RedisTemplate. RedisTemplate uses a configurable ScriptExecutor to execute the provided script. By default, the ScriptExecutor takes care of serializing the provided keys and arguments and deserializing the script result. This is done with the RedisTemplate key and value serializers. There is an additional execute method that allows you to pass custom serializers for the script arguments and result.

The default ScriptExecutor optimizes performance by retrieving the SHA1 of the script and attempting first to run evalsha, falling back to eval if the script is not yet present in the Redis script cache.

Here’s an example that executes a common "check-and-set" scenario using a Lua script. This is an ideal use case for a Redis script, as it requires that we execute a set of commands atomically and the behavior of one command is influenced by the result of another.

@Bean
public RedisScript<Boolean> script() {
  DefaultRedisScript<Boolean> redisScript = new DefaultRedisScript<Boolean>();
  redisScript.setScriptSource(new ResourceScriptSource(new ClassPathResource("META-INF/scripts/checkandset.lua")));
  redisScript.setResultType(Boolean.class);
}
public class Example {
  @Autowired
  RedisScript<Boolean> script;
  public boolean checkAndSet(String expectedValue, String newValue) {
    return redisTemplate.execute(script, Collections.singletonList("key"), expectedValue, newValue);
  }
}
-- checkandset.lua
local current = redis.call('GET', KEYS[1])
if current == ARGV[1]
  then redis.call('SET', KEYS[1], ARGV[2])
  return true
end
return false

The XML above configures a DefaultRedisScript pointing to a file called checkandset.lua, which is expected to return a boolean value. The script resultType should be one of Long, Boolean, List, or deserialized value type. It can also be null if the script returns a throw-away status (i.e "OK"). It is ideal to configure a single instance of DefaultRedisScript in your application context to avoid re-calculation of the script’s SHA1 on every script execution.

The checkAndSet method above then executes th Scripts can be executed within a SessionCallback as part of a transaction or pipeline. See Redis Transactions and Pipelining for more information.

The scripting support provided by Spring Data Redis also allows you to schedule Redis scripts for periodic execution using the Spring Task and Scheduler abstractions. See the Spring Framework documentation for more details.

5.13. Support Classes

Package org.springframework.data.redis.support offers various reusable components that rely on Redis as a backing store. Currently the package contains various JDK-based interface implementations on top of Redis such as atomic counters and JDK Collections.

The atomic counters make it easy to wrap Redis key incrementation while the collections allow easy management of Redis keys with minimal storage exposure or API leakage: in particular the RedisSet and RedisZSet interfaces offer easy access to the set operations supported by Redis such as intersection and union while RedisList implements the List, Queue and Deque contracts (and their equivalent blocking siblings) on top of Redis, exposing the storage as a FIFO (First-In-First-Out), LIFO (Last-In-First-Out) or capped collection with minimal configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  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">

  <bean id="queue" class="org.springframework.data.redis.support.collections.DefaultRedisList">
    <constructor-arg ref="redisTemplate"/>
    <constructor-arg value="queue-key"/>
  </bean>

</beans>
public class AnotherExample {

  // injected
  private Deque<String> queue;

  public void addTag(String tag) {
    queue.push(tag);
  }
}

As shown in the example above, the consuming code is decoupled from the actual storage implementation - in fact there is no indication that Redis is used underneath. This makes moving from development to production environments transparent and highly increases testability (the Redis implementation can just as well be replaced with an in-memory one).

5.13.1. Support for Spring Cache Abstraction

Spring Redis provides an implementation for Spring cache abstraction through the org.springframework.data.redis.cache package. To use Redis as a backing implementation, simply add RedisCacheManager to your configuration:

<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:c="http://www.springframework.org/schema/c"
  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">

  <!-- turn on declarative caching -->
  <cache:annotation-driven />

  <!-- declare Redis Cache Manager -->
  <bean id="cacheManager" class="org.springframework.data.redis.cache.RedisCacheManager" c:template-ref="redisTemplate"/>
</beans>
By default RedisCacheManager will lazily initialize RedisCache whenever a Cache is requested. This can be changed by predefining a Set of cache names.
By default RedisCacheManager will not participate in any ongoing transaction. Use setTransactionAware to enable transaction support.
By default RedisCacheManager does not prefix keys for cache regions, which can lead to an unexpected growth of a ZSET used to maintain known keys. It’s highly recommended to enable the usage of prefixes in order to avoid this unexpected growth and potential key clashes using more than one cache region.
By default RedisCache will not cache any null values as keys without a value get dropped by Redis itself. However you can explicitly enable null value caching via RedisCacheManager which will store org.springframework.cache.support.NullValue as a placeholder.

6. Redis Cluster

Working with Redis Cluster requires a Redis Server version 3.0+ and provides a very own set of features and capabilities. Please refer to the Cluster Tutorial for more information.

Redis Cluster is only supported by jedis and lettuce.

6.1. Enabling Redis Cluster

Cluster support is based on the very same building blocks as non clustered communication. RedisClusterConnection an extension to RedisConnection handles the communication with the Redis Cluster and translates errors into the Spring DAO exception hierarchy. RedisClusterConnection 's are created via the RedisConnectionFactory which has to be set up with the according RedisClusterConfiguration.

Example 1. Sample RedisConnectionFactory Configuration for Redis Cluster
@Component
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "spring.redis.cluster")
public class ClusterConfigurationProperties {

    /*
     * spring.redis.cluster.nodes[0] = 127.0.0.1:7379
     * spring.redis.cluster.nodes[1] = 127.0.0.1:7380
     * ...
     */
    List<String> nodes;

    /**
     * Get initial collection of known cluster nodes in format {@code host:port}.
     *
     * @return
     */
    public List<String> getNodes() {
        return nodes;
    }

    public void setNodes(List<String> nodes) {
        this.nodes = nodes;
    }
}

@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

    /**
     * Type safe representation of application.properties
     */
    @Autowired ClusterConfigurationProperties clusterProperties;

    public @Bean RedisConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {

        return new JedisConnectionFactory(
            new RedisClusterConfiguration(clusterProperties.getNodes()));
    }
}

RedisClusterConfiguration can also be defined via PropertySource.

Configuration Properties
  • spring.redis.cluster.nodes: Comma delimited list of host:port pairs.

  • spring.redis.cluster.max-redirects: Number of allowed cluster redirections.

The initial configuration points driver libraries to an initial set of cluster nodes. Changes resulting from live cluster reconfiguration will only be kept in the native driver and not be written back to the configuration.

6.2. Working With Redis Cluster Connection

As mentioned above Redis Cluster behaves different from single node Redis or even a Sentinel monitored master slave environment. This is reasoned by the automatic sharding that maps a key to one of 16384 slots which are distributed across the nodes. Therefore commands that involve more than one key must assert that all keys map to the exact same slot in order to avoid cross slot execution errors. Further on, hence a single cluster node, only serves a dedicated set of keys, commands issued against one particular server only return results for those keys served by the server. As a very simple example take the KEYS command. When issued to a server in cluster environment it only returns the keys served by the node the request is sent to and not necessarily all keys within the cluster. So to get all keys in cluster environment it is necessary to read the keys from at least all known master nodes.

While redirects for to a specific keys to the corresponding slot serving node are handled by the driver libraries, higher level functions like collecting information across nodes, or sending commands to all nodes in the cluster that are covered by RedisClusterConnection. Picking up the keys example from just before, this means, that the keys(pattern) method picks up every master node in cluster and simultaneously executes the KEYS command on every single one, while picking up the results and returning the cumulated set of keys. To just request the keys of a single node RedisClusterConnection provides overloads for those (like keys(node, pattern) ).

A RedisClusterNode can be obtained from RedisClusterConnection.clusterGetNodes or it can be constructed using either host and port or the node Id.

Example 2. Sample of Running Commands Across the Cluster
[email protected]:7379 > cluster nodes

6b38bb... 127.0.0.1:7379 master - 0 0 25 connected 0-5460                      (1)
7bb78c... 127.0.0.1:7380 master - 0 1449730618304 2 connected 5461-10922       (2)
164888... 127.0.0.1:7381 master - 0 1449730618304 3 connected 10923-16383      (3)
b8b5ee... 127.0.0.1:7382 slave 6b38bb... 0 1449730618304 25 connected          (4)
RedisClusterConnection connection = connectionFactory.getClusterConnnection();

connection.set("foo", value);                                                  (5)
connection.set("bar", value);                                                  (6)

connection.keys("*");                                                          (7)

connection.keys(NODE_7379, "*");                                               (8)
connection.keys(NODE_7380, "*");                                               (9)
connection.keys(NODE_7381, "*");                                               (10)
connection.keys(NODE_7382, "*");                                               (11)
1 Master node serving slots 0 to 5460 replicated to slave at 7382
2 Master node serving slots 5461 to 10922
3 Master node serving slots 10923 to 16383
4 Slave node holding replicates of master at 7379
5 Request routed to node at 7381 serving slot 12182
6 Request routed to node at 7379 serving slot 5061
7 Request routed to nodes at 7379, 7380, 7381 → [foo, bar]
8 Request routed to node at 7379 → [bar]
9 Request routed to node at 7380 → []
10 Request routed to node at 7381 → [foo]
11 Request routed to node at 7382 → [bar]

Cross slot requests such as MGET are automatically served by the native driver library when all keys map to the same slot. However once this is not the case RedisClusterConnection executes multiple parallel GET commands against the slot serving nodes and again returns a cumulated result. Obviously this is less performing than the single slot execution and therefore should be used with care. In doubt please consider pinning keys to the same slot by providing a prefix in curly brackets like {my-prefix}.foo and {my-prefix}.bar which will both map to the same slot number.

Example 3. Sample of Cross Slot Request Handling
[email protected]:7379 > cluster nodes

6b38bb... 127.0.0.1:7379 master - 0 0 25 connected 0-5460                      (1)
7bb...
RedisClusterConnection connection = connectionFactory.getClusterConnnection();

connection.set("foo", value);         // slot: 12182
connection.set("{foo}.bar", value);   // slot: 12182
connection.set("bar", value);         // slot:  5461

connection.mGet("foo", "{foo}.bar");                                           (2)

connection.mGet("foo", "bar");                                                 (3)
1 Same Configuration as in the sample before.
2 Keys map to same slot → 127.0.0.1:7381 MGET foo {foo}.bar
3 Keys map to different slots and get split up into single slot ones routed to the according nodes
→ 127.0.0.1:7379 GET bar
→ 127.0.0.1:7381 GET foo
The above provided simple examples to demonstrate the general strategy followed by Spring Data Redis. Be aware that some operations might require loading huge amounts of data into memory in order to compute the desired command. Additionally not all cross slot requests can safely be ported to multiple single slot requests and will error if misused (eg. PFCOUNT ).

6.3. Working With RedisTemplate and ClusterOperations

Please refer to the section Working with Objects through RedisTemplate to read about general purpose, configuration and usage of RedisTemplate.

Please be careful when setting up RedisTemplate#keySerializer using any of the Json RedisSerializers as changing json structure has immediate influence on hash slot calculation.

RedisTemplate provides access to cluster specific operations via the ClusterOperations interface that can be obtained via RedisTemplate.opsForCluster(). This allows to execute commands explicitly on a single node within the cluster while retaining de-/serialization features configured for the template and provides administrative commands such as CLUSTER MEET or more high level operations for eg. resharding.

Example 4. Accessing RedisClusterConnection via RedisTemplate
ClusterOperations clusterOps = redisTemplate.opsForCluster();
clusterOps.shutdown(NODE_7379);                                              (1)
1 Shut down node at 7379 and cross fingers there is a slave in place that can take over.

7. Redis Repositories

Working with Redis Repositories allows to seamlessly convert and store domain objects in Redis Hashes, apply custom mapping strategies and make use of secondary indexes.

Redis Repositories requires at least Redis Server version 2.8.0.

7.1. Usage

To access domain entities stored in a Redis you can leverage repository support that eases implementing those quite significantly.

Example 5. Sample Person Entity
@RedisHash("persons")
public class Person {

  @Id String id;
  String firstname;
  String lastname;
  Address address;
}

We have a pretty simple domain object here. Note that it has a property named id annotated with org.springframework.data.annotation.Id and a @RedisHash annotation on its type. Those two are responsible for creating the actual key used to persist the hash.

Properties annotated with @Id as well as those named id are considered as the identifier properties. Those with the annotation are favored over others.

To now actually have a component responsible for storage and retrieval we need to define a repository interface.

Example 6. Basic Repository Interface To Persist Person Entities
public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, String> {

}

As our repository extends CrudRepository it provides basic CRUD and finder operations. The thing we need in between to glue things together is the according Spring configuration.

Example 7. JavaConfig for Redis Repositories
@Configuration
@EnableRedisRepositories
public class ApplicationConfig {

  @Bean
  public RedisConnectionFactory connectionFactory() {
    return new JedisConnectionFactory();
  }

  @Bean
  public RedisTemplate<?, ?> redisTemplate() {

    RedisTemplate<byte[], byte[]> template = new RedisTemplate<byte[], byte[]>();
    return template;
  }
}

Given the setup above we can go on and inject PersonRepository into our components.

Example 8. Access to Person Entities
@Autowired PersonRepository repo;

public void basicCrudOperations() {

  Person rand = new Person("rand", "al'thor");
  rand.setAddress(new Address("emond's field", "andor"));

  repo.save(rand);                                         (1)

  repo.findOne(rand.getId());                              (2)

  repo.count();                                            (3)

  repo.delete(rand);                                       (4)
}
1 Generates a new id if current value is null or reuses an already set id value and stores properties of type Person inside the Redis Hash with key with pattern keyspace:id in this case eg. persons:5d67b7e1-8640-4475-beeb-c666fab4c0e5.
2 Uses the provided id to retrieve the object stored at keyspace:id.
3 Counts the total number of entities available within the keyspace persons defined by @RedisHash on Person.
4 Removes the key for the given object from Redis.

7.2. Object to Hash Mapping

The Redis Repository support persists Objects in Hashes. This requires an Object to Hash conversion which is done by a RedisConverter. The default implementation uses Converter for mapping property values to and from Redis native byte[].

Given the Person type from the previous sections the default mapping looks like the following:

_class = org.example.Person                 (1)
id = e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
firstname = rand                            (2)
lastname = al’thor
address.city = emond's field                (3)
address.country = andor
1 The _class attribute is included on root level as well as on any nested interface or abstract types.
2 Simple property values are mapped by path.
3 Properties of complex types are mapped by their dot path.
Table 4. Default Mapping Rules
Type Sample Mapped Value

Simple Type
(eg. String)

String firstname = "rand";

firstname = "rand"

Complex Type
(eg. Address)

Address adress = new Address("emond’s field");

address.city = "emond’s field"

List
of Simple Type

List<String> nicknames = asList("dragon reborn", "lews therin");

nicknames.[0] = "dragon reborn",
nicknames.[1] = "lews therin"

Map
of Simple Type

Map<String, String> atts = asMap({"eye-color", "grey"}, {"…​

atts.[eye-color] = "grey",
atts.[hair-color] = "…​

List
of Complex Type

List<Address> addresses = asList(new Address("em…​

addresses.[0].city = "emond’s field",
addresses.[1].city = "…​

Map
of Complex Type

Map<String, Address> addresses = asMap({"home", new Address("em…​

addresses.[home].city = "emond’s field",
addresses.[work].city = "…​

Due to the flat representation structure Map keys need to be simple types such as Strings or Numbers.

Mapping behavior can be customized by registering the according Converter in CustomConversions. Those converters can take care of converting from/to a single byte[] as well as Map<String,byte[]> whereas the first one is suitable for eg. converting one complex type to eg. a binary JSON representation that still uses the default mappings hash structure. The second option offers full control over the resulting hash. Writing objects to a Redis hash will delete the content from the hash and re-create the whole hash, so not mapped data will be lost.

Example 9. Sample byte[] Converters
@WritingConverter
public class AddressToBytesConverter implements Converter<Address, byte[]> {

  private final Jackson2JsonRedisSerializer<Address> serializer;

  public AddressToBytesConverter() {

    serializer = new Jackson2JsonRedisSerializer<Address>(Address.class);
    serializer.setObjectMapper(new ObjectMapper());
  }

  @Override
  public byte[] convert(Address value) {
    return serializer.serialize(value);
  }
}

@ReadingConverter
public class BytesToAddressConverter implements Converter<byte[], Address> {

  private final Jackson2JsonRedisSerializer<Address> serializer;

  public BytesToAddressConverter() {

    serializer = new Jackson2JsonRedisSerializer<Address>(Address.class);
    serializer.setObjectMapper(new ObjectMapper());
  }

  @Override
  public Address convert(byte[] value) {
    return serializer.deserialize(value);
  }
}

Using the above byte[] Converter produces eg.

_class = org.example.Person
id = e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
firstname = rand
lastname = al’thor
address = { city : "emond's field", country : "andor" }
Example 10. Sample Map<String,byte[]> Converters
@WritingConverter
public class AddressToMapConverter implements Converter<Address, Map<String,byte[]>> {

  @Override
  public Map<String,byte[]> convert(Address source) {
    return singletonMap("ciudad", source.getCity().getBytes());
  }
}

@ReadingConverter
public class MapToAddressConverter implements Converter<Address, Map<String, byte[]>> {

  @Override
  public Address convert(Map<String,byte[]> source) {
    return new Address(new String(source.get("ciudad")));
  }
}

Using the above Map Converter produces eg.

_class = org.example.Person
id = e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
firstname = rand
lastname = al’thor
ciudad = "emond's field"
Custom conversions have no effect on index resolution. Secondary Indexes will still be created even for custom converted types.

7.3. Keyspaces

Keyspaces define prefixes used to create the actual key for the Redis Hash. By default the prefix is set to getClass().getName(). This default can be altered via @RedisHash on aggregate root level or by setting up a programmatic configuration. However, the annotated keyspace supersedes any other configuration.

Example 11. Keyspace Setup via @EnableRedisRepositories
@Configuration
@EnableRedisRepositories(keyspaceConfiguration = MyKeyspaceConfiguration.class)
public class ApplicationConfig {

  //... RedisConnectionFactory and RedisTemplate Bean definitions omitted

  public static class MyKeyspaceConfiguration extends KeyspaceConfiguration {

    @Override
    protected Iterable<KeyspaceSettings> initialConfiguration() {
      return Collections.singleton(new KeyspaceSettings(Person.class, "persons"));
    }
  }
}
Example 12. Programmatic Keyspace setup
@Configuration
@EnableRedisRepositories
public class ApplicationConfig {

  //... RedisConnectionFactory and RedisTemplate Bean definitions omitted

  @Bean
  public RedisMappingContext keyValueMappingContext() {
    return new RedisMappingContext(
      new MappingConfiguration(
        new MyKeyspaceConfiguration(), new IndexConfiguration()));
  }

  public static class MyKeyspaceConfiguration extends KeyspaceConfiguration {

    @Override
    protected Iterable<KeyspaceSettings> initialConfiguration() {
      return Collections.singleton(new KeyspaceSettings(Person.class, "persons"));
    }
  }
}

7.4. Secondary Indexes

Secondary indexes are used to enable lookup operations based on native Redis structures. Values are written to the according indexes on every save and are removed when objects are deleted or expire.

7.4.1. Simple Property Index

Given the sample Person entity we can create an index for firstname by annotating the property with @Indexed.

Example 13. Annotation driven indexing
@RedisHash("persons")
public class Person {

  @Id String id;
  @Indexed String firstname;
  String lastname;
  Address address;
}

Indexes are built up for actual property values. Saving two Persons eg. "rand" and "aviendha" results in setting up indexes like below.

SADD persons:firstname:rand e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
SADD persons:firstname:aviendha a9d4b3a0-50d3-4538-a2fc-f7fc2581ee56

It is also possible to have indexes on nested elements. Assume Address has a city property that is annotated with @Indexed. In that case, once person.address.city is not null, we have Sets for each city.

SADD persons:address.city:tear e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e

Further more the programmatic setup allows to define indexes on map keys and list properties.

@RedisHash("persons")
public class Person {

  // ... other properties omitted

  Map<String,String> attributes;      (1)
  Map<String Person> relatives;       (2)
  List<Address> addresses;            (3)
}
1 SADD persons:attributes.map-key:map-value e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
2 SADD persons:relatives.map-key.firstname:tam e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
3 SADD persons:addresses.city:tear e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
Indexes will not be resolved on References.

Same as with keyspaces it is possible to configure indexes without the need of annotating the actual domain type.

Example 14. Index Setup via @EnableRedisRepositories
@Configuration
@EnableRedisRepositories(indexConfiguration = MyIndexConfiguration.class)
public class ApplicationConfig {

  //... RedisConnectionFactory and RedisTemplate Bean definitions omitted

  public static class MyIndexConfiguration extends IndexConfiguration {

    @Override
    protected Iterable<IndexDefinition> initialConfiguration() {
      return Collections.singleton(new SimpleIndexDefinition("persons", "firstname"));
    }
  }
}
Example 15. Programmatic Index setup
@Configuration
@EnableRedisRepositories
public class ApplicationConfig {

  //... RedisConnectionFactory and RedisTemplate Bean definitions omitted

  @Bean
  public RedisMappingContext keyValueMappingContext() {
    return new RedisMappingContext(
      new MappingConfiguration(
        new KeyspaceConfiguration(), new MyIndexConfiguration()));
  }

  public static class MyIndexConfiguration extends IndexConfiguration {

    @Override
    protected Iterable<IndexDefinition> initialConfiguration() {
      return Collections.singleton(new SimpleIndexDefinition("persons", "firstname"));
    }
  }
}

7.4.2. Geospatial Index

Assume the Address type contains a property location of type Point that holds the geo coordinates of the particular address. By annotating the property with @GeoIndexed those values will be added using Redis GEO commands.

@RedisHash("persons")
public class Person {

  Address address;

  // ... other properties omitted
}

public class Address {

  @GeoIndexed Point location;

  // ... other properties omitted
}

public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, String> {

  List<Person> findByAddressLocationNear(Point point, Distance distance);     (1)
  List<Person> findByAddressLocationWithin(Circle circle);                    (2)
}

Person rand = new Person("rand", "al'thor");
rand.setAddress(new Address(new Point(13.361389D, 38.115556D)));

repository.save(rand);                                                        (3)

repository.findByAddressLocationNear(new Point(15D, 37D), new Distance(200)); (4)
1 Query method declaration on nested property using Point and Distance.
2 Query method declaration on nested property using Circle to search within.
3 GEOADD persons:address:location 13.361389 38.115556 e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
4 GEORADIUS persons:address:location 15.0 37.0 200.0 km

In the above example the lon/lat values are stored using GEOADD using the objects id as the member’s name. The finder methods allow usage of Circle or Point, Distance combinations for querying those values.

It is not possible to combine near/within with other criteria.

7.5. Time To Live

Objects stored in Redis may only be valid for a certain amount of time. This is especially useful for persisting short lived objects in Redis without having to remove them manually when they reached their end of life. The expiration time in seconds can be set via @RedisHash(timeToLive=…​) as well as via KeyspaceSettings (see Keyspaces).

More flexible expiration times can be set by using the @TimeToLive annotation on either a numeric property or method. However do not apply @TimeToLive on both a method and a property within the same class.

Example 16. Expirations
public class TimeToLiveOnProperty {

  @Id
  private String id;

  @TimeToLive
  private Long expiration;
}

public class TimeToLiveOnMethod {

  @Id
  private String id;

  @TimeToLive
  public long getTimeToLive() {
  	return new Random().nextLong();
  }
}
Annotating a property explicitly with @TimeToLive will read back the actual TTL or PTTL value from Redis. -1 indicates that the object has no expire associated.

The repository implementation ensures subscription to Redis keyspace notifications via RedisMessageListenerContainer.

When the expiration is set to a positive value the according EXPIRE command is executed. Additionally to persisting the original, a phantom copy is persisted in Redis and set to expire 5 minutes after the original one. This is done to enable the Repository support to publish RedisKeyExpiredEvent holding the expired value via Springs ApplicationEventPublisher whenever a key expires even though the original values have already been gone. Expiry events will be received on all connected applications using Spring Data Redis repositories.

By default, the key expiry listener is disabled when initializing the application. The startup mode can be adjusted in @EnableRedisRepositories or RedisKeyValueAdapter to start the listener with the application or upon the first insert of an entity with a TTL. See EnableKeyspaceEvents for possible values.

The RedisKeyExpiredEvent will hold a copy of the actually expired domain object as well as the key.

Delaying or disabling the expiry event listener startup impacts RedisKeyExpiredEvent publishing. A disabled event listener will not publish expiry events. A delayed startup can cause loss of events because the delayed listener initialization.
The keyspace notification message listener will alter notify-keyspace-events settings in Redis if those are not already set. Existing settings will not be overridden, so it is left to the user to set those up correctly when not leaving them empty. Please note that CONFIG is disabled on AWS ElastiCache and enabling the listener leads to an error.
Redis Pub/Sub messages are not persistent. If a key expires while the application is down the expiry event will not be processed which may lead to secondary indexes containing still references to the expired object.

7.6. Persisting References

Marking properties with @Reference allows storing a simple key reference instead of copying values into the hash itself. On loading from Redis, references are resolved automatically and mapped back into the object.

Example 17. Sample Property Reference
_class = org.example.Person
id = e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e
firstname = rand
lastname = al’thor
mother = persons:a9d4b3a0-50d3-4538-a2fc-f7fc2581ee56      (1)
1 Reference stores the whole key (keyspace:id) of the referenced object.
Referenced Objects are not subject of persisting changes when saving the referencing object. Please make sure to persist changes on referenced objects separately, since only the reference will be stored. Indexes set on properties of referenced types will not be resolved.

7.7. Persisting Partial Updates

In some cases it is not necessary to load and rewrite the entire entity just to set a new value within it. A session timestamp for last active time might be such a scenario where you just want to alter one property. PartialUpdate allows to define set and delete actions on existing objects while taking care of updating potential expiration times of the entity itself as well as index structures.

Example 18. Sample Partial Update
PartialUpdate<Person> update = new PartialUpdate<Person>("e2c7dcee", Person.class)
  .set("firstname", "mat")                                                           (1)
  .set("address.city", "emond's field")                                              (2)
  .del("age");                                                                       (3)

template.update(update);

update = new PartialUpdate<Person>("e2c7dcee", Person.class)
  .set("address", new Address("caemlyn", "andor"))                                   (4)
  .set("attributes", singletonMap("eye-color", "grey"));                             (5)

template.update(update);

update = new PartialUpdate<Person>("e2c7dcee", Person.class)
  .refreshTtl(true);                                                                 (6)
  .set("expiration", 1000);

template.update(update);
1 Set the simple property firstname to mat.
2 Set the simple property address.city to emond’s field without having to pass in the entire object. This does not work when a custom conversion is registered.
3 Remove the property age.
4 Set complex property address.
5 Set a map/collection of values removes the previously existing map/collection and replaces the values with the given ones.
6 Automatically update the server expiration time when altering Time To Live.
Updating complex objects as well as map/collection structures requires further interaction with Redis to determine existing values which means that it might turn out that rewriting the entire entity might be faster.

7.8. Queries and Query Methods

Query methods allow automatic derivation of simple finder queries from the method name.

Example 19. Sample Repository finder Method
public interface PersonRepository extends CrudRepository<Person, String> {

  List<Person> findByFirstname(String firstname);
}
Please make sure properties used in finder methods are set up for indexing.
Query methods for Redis repositories support only queries for entities and collections of entities with paging.

Using derived query methods might not always be sufficient to model the queries to execute. RedisCallback offers more control over the actual matching of index structures or even custom added ones. All it takes is providing a RedisCallback that returns a single or Iterable set of id values.

Example 20. Sample finder using RedisCallback
String user = //...

List<RedisSession> sessionsByUser = template.find(new RedisCallback<Set<byte[]>>() {

  public Set<byte[]> doInRedis(RedisConnection connection) throws DataAccessException {
    return connection
      .sMembers("sessions:securityContext.authentication.principal.username:" + user);
  }}, RedisSession.class);

Here’s an overview of the keywords supported for Redis and what a method containing that keyword essentially translates to.

Table 5. Supported keywords inside method names
Keyword Sample Redis snippet

And

findByLastnameAndFirstname

SINTER …:firstname:rand …:lastname:al’thor

Or

findByLastnameOrFirstname

SUNION …:firstname:rand …:lastname:al’thor

Is,Equals

findByFirstname,findByFirstnameIs,findByFirstnameEquals

SINTER …:firstname:rand

Top,First

findFirst10ByFirstname,findTop5ByFirstname

7.9. Redis Repositories running on Cluster

Using the Redis repository support in a clustered Redis environment is fine. Please see the Redis Cluster section for ConnectionFactory configuration details. Still some considerations have to be done as the default key distribution will spread entities and secondary indexes through out the whole cluster and its slots.

key type slot node

persons:e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e

id for hash

15171

127.0.0.1:7381

persons:a9d4b3a0-50d3-4538-a2fc-f7fc2581ee56

id for hash

7373

127.0.0.1:7380

persons:firstname:rand

index

1700

127.0.0.1:7379

Some commands like SINTER and SUNION can only be processed on the Server side when all involved keys map to the same slot. Otherwise computation has to be done on client side. Therefore it be useful to pin keyspaces to a single slot which allows to make use of Redis serverside computation right away.

key type slot node

{persons}:e2c7dcee-b8cd-4424-883e-736ce564363e

id for hash

2399

127.0.0.1:7379

{persons}:a9d4b3a0-50d3-4538-a2fc-f7fc2581ee56

id for hash

2399

127.0.0.1:7379

{persons}:firstname:rand

index

2399

127.0.0.1:7379

Define and pin keyspaces via `@RedisHash("{yourkeyspace}") to specific slots when using Redis cluster.

7.10. CDI integration

Instances of the repository interfaces are usually created by a container, which Spring is the most natural choice when working with Spring Data. There’s sophisticated support to easily set up Spring to create bean instances. Spring Data Redis ships with a custom CDI extension that allows using the repository abstraction in CDI environments. The extension is part of the JAR so all you need to do to activate it is dropping the Spring Data Redis JAR into your classpath.

You can now set up the infrastructure by implementing a CDI Producer for the RedisConnectionFactory and RedisOperations:

class RedisOperationsProducer {


  @Produces
  RedisConnectionFactory redisConnectionFactory() {

    JedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory = new JedisConnectionFactory();
    jedisConnectionFactory.setHostName("localhost");
    jedisConnectionFactory.setPort(6379);
    jedisConnectionFactory.afterPropertiesSet();

    return jedisConnectionFactory;
  }

  void disposeRedisConnectionFactory(@Disposes RedisConnectionFactory redisConnectionFactory) throws Exception {

    if (redisConnectionFactory instanceof DisposableBean) {
      ((DisposableBean) redisConnectionFactory).destroy();
    }
  }

  @Produces
  @ApplicationScoped
  RedisOperations<byte[], byte[]> redisOperationsProducer(RedisConnectionFactory redisConnectionFactory) {

    RedisTemplate<byte[], byte[]> template = new RedisTemplate<byte[], byte[]>();
    template.setConnectionFactory(redisConnectionFactory);
    template.afterPropertiesSet();

    return template;
  }

}

The necessary setup can vary depending on the JavaEE environment you run in.

The Spring Data Redis CDI extension will pick up all Repositories available as CDI beans and create a proxy for a Spring Data repository whenever a bean of a repository type is requested by the container. Thus obtaining an instance of a Spring Data repository is a matter of declaring an @Injected property:

class RepositoryClient {

  @Inject
  PersonRepository repository;

  public void businessMethod() {
    List<Person> people = repository.findAll();
  }
}

A Redis Repository requires RedisKeyValueAdapter and RedisKeyValueTemplate instances. These beans are created and managed by the Spring Data CDI extension if no provided beans are found. You can however supply your own beans to configure the specific properties of RedisKeyValueAdapter and RedisKeyValueTemplate.

Appendixes

Appendix Document structure

Various appendixes outside the reference documentation.

Schema defines the schemas provided by Spring Data Redis.

Appendix A: Schema

Core schema

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsd:schema xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/redis"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:tool="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool"
    targetNamespace="http://www.springframework.org/schema/redis"
    elementFormDefault="qualified"
    attributeFormDefault="unqualified">

  <xsd:import namespace="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool" schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tool/spring-tool.xsd"/>

  <xsd:annotation>
    <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
Defines the configuration elements for the Spring Data Redis support.
Allows for configuring Redis listener containers in XML 'shortcut' style.
    ]]></xsd:documentation>
  </xsd:annotation>

  <xsd:element name="listener-container">
    <xsd:annotation>
      <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
Container of Redis listeners. All listeners will be hosted by the same container.
      ]]></xsd:documentation>
      <xsd:appinfo>
        <tool:annotation>
          <tool:exports type="org.springframework.data.redis.listener.RedisMessageListenerContainer"/>
        </tool:annotation>
      </xsd:appinfo>
    </xsd:annotation>
    <xsd:complexType>
      <xsd:sequence>
        <xsd:element name="listener" type="listenerType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      </xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:attribute name="connection-factory" type="xsd:string" default="redisConnectionFactory">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
A reference to the Redis ConnectionFactory bean.
Default is "redisConnectionFactory".
          ]]></xsd:documentation>
          <xsd:appinfo>
            <tool:annotation kind="ref">
              <tool:expected-type type="org.springframework.data.redis.connection.ConnectionFactory"/>
            </tool:annotation>
          </xsd:appinfo>
        </xsd:annotation>
      </xsd:attribute>
      <xsd:attribute name="task-executor" type="xsd:string">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
A reference to a Spring TaskExecutor (or standard JDK 1.5 Executor) for executing
Redis listener invokers. Default is a SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor.
          ]]></xsd:documentation>
          <xsd:appinfo>
            <tool:annotation kind="ref">
              <tool:expected-type type="java.util.concurrent.Executor"/>
            </tool:annotation>
          </xsd:appinfo>
        </xsd:annotation>
      </xsd:attribute>
      <xsd:attribute name="subscription-task-executor" type="xsd:string">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
A reference to a Spring TaskExecutor (or standard JDK 1.5 Executor) for listening
to Redis messages. By default reuses the 'task-executor' value.
          ]]></xsd:documentation>
          <xsd:appinfo>
            <tool:annotation kind="ref">
              <tool:expected-type type="java.util.concurrent.Executor"/>
            </tool:annotation>
          </xsd:appinfo>
        </xsd:annotation>
      </xsd:attribute>
      <xsd:attribute name="topic-serializer" type="xsd:string">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
A reference to the RedisSerializer strategy for converting Redis channels/patterns to
serialized format. Default is a StringRedisSerializer.
          ]]></xsd:documentation>
          <xsd:appinfo>
            <tool:annotation kind="ref">
              <tool:expected-type type="org.springframework.data.redis.serializer.RedisSerializer"/>
            </tool:annotation>
          </xsd:appinfo>
        </xsd:annotation>
      </xsd:attribute>
      <xsd:attribute name="phase" type="xsd:string">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
The lifecycle phase within which this container should start and stop. The lower
the value the earlier this container will start and the later it will stop. The
default is Integer.MAX_VALUE meaning the container will start as late as possible
and stop as soon as possible.
          ]]></xsd:documentation>
        </xsd:annotation>
      </xsd:attribute>
    </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:element>

  <xsd:complexType name="listenerType">
    <xsd:attribute name="ref" type="xsd:string" use="required">
      <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
  The bean name of the listener object, implementing
  the MessageListener interface or defining the specified listener method.
  Required.
        ]]></xsd:documentation>
        <xsd:appinfo>
          <tool:annotation kind="ref"/>
        </xsd:appinfo>
      </xsd:annotation>
    </xsd:attribute>
    <xsd:attribute name="topic" type="xsd:string">
      <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
The topics(s) to which the listener is subscribed. Can be (in Redis terminology) a
channel or/and a pattern. Multiple values can be specified by separating them with
spaces. Patterns can be specified by using the '*' character.
        ]]></xsd:documentation>
      </xsd:annotation>
    </xsd:attribute>
    <xsd:attribute name="method" type="xsd:string">
      <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
The name of the listener method to invoke. If not specified,
the target bean is supposed to implement the MessageListener
interface or provide a method named 'handleMessage'.
        ]]></xsd:documentation>
      </xsd:annotation>
    </xsd:attribute>
    <xsd:attribute name="serializer" type="xsd:string">
      <xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
A reference to the RedisSerializer strategy for converting Redis Messages to
listener method arguments. Default is a StringRedisSerializer.
        ]]></xsd:documentation>
        <xsd:appinfo>
          <tool:annotation kind="ref">
            <tool:expected-type type="org.springframework.data.redis.serializer.RedisSerializer"/>
          </tool:annotation>
        </xsd:appinfo>
      </xsd:annotation>
    </xsd:attribute>
  </xsd:complexType>

  <xsd:element name="collection">
    <xsd:annotation>
      <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
Factory creating collections on top of Redis keys.
      ]]></xsd:documentation>
      <xsd:appinfo>
        <tool:annotation>
          <tool:exports type="org.springframework.data.redis.support.collections.RedisCollectionFactoryBean"/>
        </tool:annotation>
      </xsd:appinfo>
    </xsd:annotation>
    <xsd:complexType>
	  <xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:ID">
		<xsd:annotation>
			<xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
The name of the Redis collection.]]></xsd:documentation>
		</xsd:annotation>
	  </xsd:attribute>
      <xsd:attribute name="key" type="xsd:string" use="optional">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
Redis key of the created collection. Defaults to bean id.
          ]]></xsd:documentation>
        </xsd:annotation>
      </xsd:attribute>
      <xsd:attribute name="template" type="xsd:string" default="redisTemplate">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
A reference to a RedisTemplate bean.Default is "redisTemplate".
          ]]></xsd:documentation>
          <xsd:appinfo>
            <tool:annotation kind="ref">
              <tool:expected-type type="org.springframework.data.redis.core.RedisTemplate"/>
            </tool:annotation>
          </xsd:appinfo>
        </xsd:annotation>
      </xsd:attribute>
      <xsd:attribute name="type" default="LIST" use="optional">
        <xsd:annotation>
          <xsd:documentation><![CDATA[
The collection type (default is list).
If the key exists, its type takes priority. The type is used to disambiguate the collection type (map vs properties) or
specify one in case the key is missing.]]></xsd:documentation>
        </xsd:annotation>
        <xsd:simpleType>
        	<xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
        		<xsd:enumeration value="LIST"/>
        		<xsd:enumeration value="SET"/>
        		<xsd:enumeration value="ZSET"/>
        		<xsd:enumeration value="MAP"/>
        		<xsd:enumeration value="PROPERTIES"/>
        	</xsd:restriction>
        </xsd:simpleType>
      </xsd:attribute>
    </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:element>
</xsd:schema>

Appendix B: Command Reference

Supported commands

Table 6. Redis commands supported by RedisTemplate.
Command Template Support

APPEND

X

AUTH

X

BGREWRITEAOF

X

BGSAVE

X

BITCOUNT

X

BITOP

X

BLPOP

X

BRPOP

X

BRPOPLPUSH

X

CLIENT KILL

X

CLIENT GETNAME

X

CLIENT LIST

X

CLIENT SETNAME

X

CLUSTER SLOTS

-

COMMAND

-

COMMAND COUNT

-

COMMAND GETKEYS

-

COMMAND INFO

-

CONFIG GET

X

CONFIG RESETSTAT

X

CONFIG REWRITE

-

CONFIG SET

X

DBSIZE

X

DEBUG OBJECT

-

DEBUG SEGFAULT

-

DECR

X

DECRBY

X

DEL

X

DISCARD

X

DUMP

X

ECHO

X

EVAL

X

EVALSHA

X

EXEC

X

EXISTS

X

EXPIRE

X

EXPIREAT

X

FLUSHALL

X

FLUSHDB

X

GET

X

GETBIT

X

GETRANGE

X

GETSET

X

HDEL

X

HEXISTS

X

HGET

X

HGETALL

X

HINCRBY

X

HINCRBYFLOAT

X

HKEYS

X

HLEN

X

HMGET

X

HMSET

X

HSCAN

X

HSET

X

HSETNX

X

HVALS

X

INCR

X

INCRBY

X

INCRBYFLOAT

X

INFO

X

KEYS

X

LASTSAVE

X

LINDEX

X

LINSERT

X

LLEN

X

LPOP

X

LPUSH

X

LPUSHX

X

LRANGE

X

LREM

X

LSET

X

LTRIM

X

MGET

X

MIGRATE

-

MONITOR

-

MOVE

X

MSET

X

MSETNX

X

MULTI

X

OBJECT

-

PERSIST

X

PEXIPRE

X

PEXPIREAT

X

PFADD

X

PFCOUNT

X

PFMERGE

X

PING

X

PSETEX

X

PSUBSCRIBE

X

PTTL

X

PUBLISH

X

PUBSUB

-

PUBSUBSCRIBE

-

QUIT

X

RANDOMKEY

X

RENAME

X

RENAMENX

X

RESTORE

X

ROLE

-

RPOP

X

RPOPLPUSH

X

RPUSH

X

RPUSHX

X

SADD

X

SAVE

X

SCAN

X

SCARD

X

SCRIPT EXITS

X

SCRIPT FLUSH

X

SCRIPT KILL

X

SCRIPT LOAD

X

SDIFF

X

SDIFFSTORE

X

SELECT

X

SENTINEL FAILOVER

X

SENTINEL GET-MASTER-ADD-BY-NAME

-

SENTINEL MASTER

-

SENTINEL MASTERS

X

SENTINEL MONITOR

X

SENTINEL REMOVE

X

SENTINEL RESET

-

SENTINEL SET

-

SENTINEL SLAVES

X

SET

X

SETBIT

X

SETEX

X

SETNX

X

SETRANGE

X

SHUTDOWN

X

SINTER

X

SINTERSTORE

X

SISMEMBER

X

SLAVEOF

X

SLOWLOG

-

SMEMBERS

X

SMOVE

X

SORT

X

SPOP

X

SRANDMEMBER

X

SREM

X

SSCAN

X

STRLEN

X

SUBSCRIBE

X

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X

SUNIONSTORE

X

SYNC

-

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X

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X

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X

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X

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X

WATCH

X

ZADD

X

ZCARD

X

ZCOUNT

X

ZINCRBY

X

ZINTERSTORE

X

ZLEXCOUNT

-

ZRANGE

X

ZRANGEBYLEX

-

ZREVRANGEBYLEX

-

ZRANGEBYSCORE

X

ZRANK

X

ZREM

X

ZREMRANGEBYLEX

-

ZREMRANGEBYRANK

X

ZREVRANGE

X

ZREVRANGEBYSCORE

X

ZREVRANK

X

ZSCAN

X

ZSCORE

X

ZUNINONSTORE

X