Error accessing Spring session data stored in Redis - spring

Question

In my REST controllers Spring project, I want to store Session information in Redis.
In my application.properties I have defined the following:
spring.session.store-type=redis
spring.session.redis.namespace=rdrestcore
com.xyz.redis.host=192.168.201.46
com.xyz.redis.db=0
com.xyz.redis.port=6379
com.xyz.redis.pool.min-idle=5
I also have enabled Http Redis Session with:
#Configuration
#EnableRedisHttpSession
public class SessionConfig extends AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer
{}
I finally have a redis connection factory like this:
#Configuration
#EnableRedisRepositories
public class RdRedisConnectionFactory {
#Autowired
private Environment env;
#Value("${com.xyz.redis.host}")
private String redisHost;
#Value("${com.xyz.redis.db}")
private Integer redisDb;
#Value("${com.xyz.redis.port}")
private Integer redisPort;
#Value("${com.xyz.redis.pool.min-idle}")
private Integer redisPoolMinIdle;
#Bean
JedisPoolConfig jedisPoolConfig() {
JedisPoolConfig poolConfig = new JedisPoolConfig();
if(redisPoolMinIdle!=null) poolConfig.setMinIdle(redisPoolMinIdle);
return poolConfig;
}
#Bean
JedisConnectionFactory jedisConnectionFactory() {
JedisConnectionFactory jedisConFactory = new JedisConnectionFactory();
if(redisHost!=null) jedisConFactory.setHostName(redisHost);
if(redisPort!=null) jedisConFactory.setPort(redisPort);
if(redisDb!=null) jedisConFactory.setDatabase(redisDb);
jedisConFactory.setPoolConfig(jedisPoolConfig());
return jedisConFactory;
}
#Bean
public RedisTemplate<String, Object> redisTemplate() {
final RedisTemplate< String, Object > template = new RedisTemplate();
template.setConnectionFactory( jedisConnectionFactorySpring());
template.setKeySerializer( new StringRedisSerializer() );
template.setValueSerializer( new GenericJackson2JsonRedisSerializer() );
template.setHashKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
template.setHashValueSerializer( new GenericJackson2JsonRedisSerializer() );
return template;
}
}
With this configuration, the session information gets stored in Redis, but, it is serialized very strangely. I mean, the keys are readable, but the values stored are not (I query the information from a program called "Redis Desktop Manager")... for example... for a new session, I get a hash with key:
*spring:session:sessions:c1110241-0aed-4d40-9861-43553b3526cb*
and the keys this hash contains are: maxInactiveInterval, lastAccessedTime, creationTime, sessionAttr:SPRING_SECURITY_CONTEXT
but their values are all they coded like something similar to this:
\xAC\xED\x00\x05sr\x00\x0Ejava.lang.Long;\x8B\xE4\x90\xCC\x8F#\xDF\x02\x00\x01J\x00\x05valuexr\x00\x10java.lang.Number\x86\xAC\x95\x1D\x0B\x94\xE0\x8B\x02\x00\x00xp\x00\x00\x01b$G\x88*
(for the creationTime key)
and if I try to access this information from code, with the redisTemplate, it rises an exception like this one:
Exception occurred in target VM: Cannot deserialize; nested exception is
org.springframework.core.serializer.support.SerializationFailedException:
Failed to deserialize payload. Is the byte array a result of
corresponding serialization for DefaultDeserializer?; nested exception
is java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 73657373
org.springframework.data.redis.serializer.SerializationException: Cannot deserialize; nested exception is
org.springframework.core.serializer.support.SerializationFailedException:
Failed to deserialize payload. Is the byte array a result of
corresponding serialization for DefaultDeserializer?; nested exception
is java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 73657373
at org.springframework.data.redis.serializer.JdkSerializationRedisSerializer.deserialize(JdkSerializationRedisSerializer.java:82)
I think it is some kind of problem with the serialization/deserialization of the Spring session information, but I don't know what else to do to be able to control that.
Does anyone know what Im doing wrong?
Thank you

Answer 1

You're on the right track, your problem is serialization indeed. Try this configuration (configure your template with these serializers only):
template.setHashValueSerializer(new JdkSerializationRedisSerializer());
template.setHashKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
template.setKeySerializer(new StringRedisSerializer());
template.setDefaultSerializer(new JdkSerializationRedisSerializer());