Currently it's difficult to customize the RedisCacheWriter when using redis-based caching and still take advantage of the auto-configuration provided by boot. This is an attempt to make it possible to declare a RedisCacheWriter bean and have the auto-configuration use it.
If the user doesn't create their own RedisCacheWriter bean this should result in the same functionality as before.
Comment From: josephtaylor
Another approach to this would be to allow for setting the RedisCacheWriter via a RedisCacheManagerBuilderCustomizer.
From what I can tell that would require changes to RedisCacheManagerBuilder in spring-data-redis.
Comment From: philwebb
@josephtaylor Thanks very much for the pull-request. I think the version of Spring Data Redis that we'll be using in Spring Boot 2.3 offers a RedisCacheManagerBuilder.cacheWriter(...) method which would open up the option of using a Customizer (see DATAREDIS-1118).
Would you be interested in reworking your pull-request in that direction? It seems like it would be more flexible than the bean approach.
Comment From: josephtaylor
Ah sorry I didn't see that. I think with the change they're making to the builder, the cache writer should be customizable without any code changes here because there's already a list of RedisCacheManagerBuilderCustomizer being injected in the bean method here.