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Spring MVC - CacheControl Examples

[Last Updated: Nov 8, 2025]

Spring MVC 


CacheControl, is a builder for creating "Cache-Control" HTTP response headers. It provides various methods supporting Cache-Control directives e.g. maxAge(..), mustRevalidate(), noCache(), cachePublic(), cachePrivate(), etc.


package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.http.CacheControl;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

@Controller
public class TheController {

    @RequestMapping(value = "/test1")
    public String handle1 (HttpServletResponse response) {
        String headerValue = CacheControl.maxAge(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                                         .getHeaderValue();

        response.addHeader("Cache-Control", headerValue);
        return "myView";
    }

    @ResponseBody
    @RequestMapping(value = "/test2")
    public ResponseEntity<String> handle2 () {

        CacheControl cacheControl = CacheControl.maxAge(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        String testBody = "<p>Response time: " + LocalDateTime.now() +
                  "</p><a href=''>test2</a>";
        return ResponseEntity.ok()
                             .cacheControl(cacheControl)
                             .body(testBody);
    }
}
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