How do I ensure a bucket is created?

[Jaysok]

Hi, I'm currently utilizing Bucket4j backed by Redisson. Instead of using Spring Boot, I'm leveraging Spring solely for Dependency Injection, not integrating with Spring-data-redis or similar frameworks for bucket4j integration. I've configured a bucket featuring a Bandwidth parameter set with capacity=180, refillTokens=20, refillGreedy=true, refillInterval=1s.

The code snippet below illustrates how I created the bucket:

I create the bucket with the code similar to the following code:

BucketConfiguration bucketConfig = myBucketConfigBuild();
Bucket bucket = proxyManager.builder().build(key, () -> configuration);
createMyInstanceWithBucket(bucket.asBlocking());

Upon debugging, I noticed that Bucket4j doesn't seem to generate a Redis key for the bucket until an action is performed on the bucket. As a workaround, I've been using consume(1) immediately after the bucket's creation. This approach serves as a check to ensure the bucket's existence, especially vital when multiple instances attempt to create the same bucket concurrently during deployment.

I'm curious to know:

Is there a more elegant method to instantiate the actual bucket key in Redis without the need to call consume(1)?

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btw, thank you for this amazing lib 🤗

[vladimir-bukhtoyarov]

Hello @Jaysok

Use getAvailableTokens

[Jaysok]

Thanks!

[Jaysok]

Sorry again, the getAvailableTokens method is implemented in Bucket but not in BlockingBucket. Could this implementation detail have any impact?

[vladimir-bukhtoyarov]

It does not matter. Technically asBlocking returns the same bucket.