On this article, im trying to create a simple java app that will hold a value that have an expiration time. I usually use this for handling request session or to hold a value that have a time limitation. Btw, i’m using EhCache for handling expiration time.

First is a simple pom.xml,

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.edw</groupId>
    <artifactId>ExpirableToken</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>ExpirableToken</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
            <artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
            <version>2.7.4</version>
        </dependency>           
    </dependencies>
</project>

And a simple xml file to hold ehcache configurations,

<ehcache updateCheck="false" monitoring="off" dynamicConfig="false">
    
    <diskStore path="java.io.tmpdir" />
    
    <defaultCache maxEntriesLocalHeap="0" eternal="false"
                  timeToIdleSeconds="1200" timeToLiveSeconds="1200">
    </defaultCache>
    
    <!-- a 3 seconds -->
    <cache name="token" maxElementsInMemory="1000" eternal="false"
           overflowToDisk="true" diskPersistent="false" timeToIdleSeconds="3" 
           timeToLiveSeconds="3" memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LFU" statistics="false" transactionalMode="off">       
    </cache>                
    
    <!-- a 10 seconds -->
    <cache name="action" maxElementsInMemory="1000" eternal="false"
           overflowToDisk="true" diskPersistent="false" timeToIdleSeconds="10" 
           timeToLiveSeconds="10" memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LFU" statistics="false" transactionalMode="off">       
    </cache>        
    
</ehcache>

And this is my java class that i use for testing,

package com.edw.expirabletoken;

import java.util.Date;
import net.sf.ehcache.Cache;
import net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager;
import net.sf.ehcache.Element;

public class App {

    private CacheManager cacheManager= CacheManager.create();
    private Cache tokenCache = cacheManager.getCache("token"); // a 3 seconds cache
    private Cache actionCache = cacheManager.getCache("action"); // a 10 seconds cache

    public App() {
    }

    private void action() throws Exception {
        // add into a 3 seconds cache
        Element regElement = new Element("name", "edwin 3 seconds");
        tokenCache.put(regElement);
        
        // add into a 10 seconds cache
        Element regElement2 = new Element("name", "edwin 10 seconds");
        actionCache.put(regElement2);
        
         // 2 seconds sleep
         Thread.sleep(2000);
         getCacheContent();
         
         // 5 seconds sleep
         Thread.sleep(5000);
         getCacheContent();
         
         // 10 seconds sleep
         Thread.sleep(10000);
         getCacheContent();
    }
    
    private void getCacheContent() {
        Element element3 = tokenCache.get("name"); // get value from a 3 seconds cache
        if (element3 != null) {
            String value = (String) element3.getObjectValue();
            System.out.println(new Date()+" -- "+value);    
        } else {
            System.out.println(new Date()+" -- Empty Cache");
        }
        
         Element element10 = actionCache.get("name"); // get value from a 10 seconds cache
         if (element10 != null) {
            String value = (String) element10.getObjectValue();
            System.out.println(new Date()+" -- "+value);    
        } else {
            System.out.println(new Date()+" -- Empty Cache");
        }
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        App app = new App();
        app.action();
    }
}

This is what the result on my Netbeans’ console,

This is my Netbeans’ project structure,

Well i hope this helped others, have fun using ehcache.