Ehcache how to remove keys when element is expired?

I'm trying to get only valid objects from the cache. if I do List list = cache.getKeys(); it will return keys that are expired too. I though of adding a listener and try to remove the key myself, but my listener notifyElementExpired is never called.

Here is my code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    CacheManager.getInstance().addCache("test");

    Cache cache = CacheManager.getInstance().getCache("test");

    cache.getCacheConfiguration().setTimeToLiveSeconds(10);

    cache.getCacheEventNotificationService().registerListener(new CacheEventListener() {

        public void notifyRemoveAll(Ehcache arg0) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.println("notifyRemoveAll cache=" + arg0);
        }

        public void notifyElementUpdated(Ehcache arg0, Element arg1)
                throws CacheException {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.println("notifyElementUpdated cache=" + arg0 + "  element=" + arg1);
        }

        public void notifyElementRemoved(Ehcache ar开发者_StackOverflowg0, Element arg1)
                throws CacheException {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.println("notifyElementRemoved cache=" + arg0 + "  element=" + arg1);
        }

        public void notifyElementPut(Ehcache arg0, Element arg1)
                throws CacheException {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.println("notifyElementPut cache=" + arg0 + "  element=" + arg1);
        }

        public void notifyElementExpired(Ehcache arg0, Element arg1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.println("notifyElementExpired cache=" + arg0 + "  element=" + arg1);
        }

        public void notifyElementEvicted(Ehcache arg0, Element arg1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.println("notifyElementEvicted cache=" + arg0 + "  element=" + arg1);
        }

        public void dispose() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            System.out.println("dispose");
        }

        public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
            throw new CloneNotSupportedException();
        }
    });

    //cache.getCacheConfiguration().setTimeToLiveSeconds(0);

    String key = "key";
    String value = "value1";

    System.out.println("created at = " + new Date());
    //cache.put(new Element(key, value, false, new Integer(1), new Integer(5)));
    cache.put(new Element(key, value, false, new Integer(1), new Integer(5)));
    System.out.println("key=" + key + "will expired at object=" + new Date(cache.get(key).getExpirationTime()));


    Thread.sleep(7000);

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    List list = cache.getKeys();

    System.out.println("current time = " + new Date());
    for (Object item : list) {
        System.out.println("created at = " + new Date());
        //System.out.println("key=" + item + "  object=" + new Date(cache.get(item).getExpirationTime()));

        //System.out.println(item + "  isExpired=" + cache.get(item).isExpired());
    }

    Thread.sleep(30000);

}

Before getting the count of keys from cache, you can evict the expired elements like below. cache.evictExpiredElements();

So that, you will be getting only active keys.

I've added your listener code to my cache. And noticed that elementExpired event fire when I try to get element from cache. So it's lazy or on-demand action.

You can use .getKeysWithExpiryCheck() method to remove expired elements from list.