Problem in configuring spring boot and redis - spring-boot

Question

I have an old spring boot application (1.5.0-FINAL) and I can't change this version.
I want to add redis to my application, that's what I did:
1) added the maven dep:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-redis</artifactId>
<version>1.5.10.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
2) Added the property to my boot
#EnableCaching
public class MySpringBootApp{
3) Added config properties to check if it starts the connection:
spring.cache.type: redis
spring.redis.host: 192.168.99.100
spring.redis.port: 6379
The host/port above do not exist: I just want to see something like "connection error" on boot to make sure I configured everything but nothing appears! It seems that spring boot just doesn't try to use a cache.
Am I missing something?Maybe my spring boot version is too old?

Answer 1

Spring Boot parent pom already defines the versions of the starters, so remove the version from spring-boot-starter-data-redis dependency.
Your pom.xml would have at least these dependencies.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.5.10.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-redis</artifactId>
</dependency>
Next, #EnableCaching will look for beans with #Cacheable or #CachePut annotations.