Spring Data Redis (Jedis) : ClassCastException

[dkozimor]

I'm using latest Spring Data Redis (1.0.1.RELEASE) on Tomcat 7. In addition, I'm using the Jedis connector, along with use-pool set to 'true'. My spring config stuff is defined in a standard way as per documentation.

My issue is that I'm getting sporadic ClassCastExceptions, e.g:

java.lang.ClassCastException: [B cannot be cast to java.util.List 
at redis.clients.jedis.Connection.getObjectMultiBulkReply(Connection.java:206) 
at redis.clients.jedis.BinaryTransaction.exec(BinaryTransaction.java:28)

or

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to java.lang.Long
at redis.clients.jedis.Connection.getIntegerReply(Connection.java:188)
at redis.clients.jedis.Jedis.publish(Jedis.java:1978)

From reading Jedis newsgroup, it looks like those can occur if a 'dirty' Jedis instance is released back into the pool (usually during broken pipeline operations). I'm using Spring Data Redis as follows:

		RedisConnectionFactory factory = template.getConnectionFactory();
		RedisConnection conn = factory.getConnection();
		Jedis jedis = (Jedis)conn.getNativeConnection();	
		
		try{
			Pipeline p = jedis.pipelined();

			//More jedis stuff goes here

			p.sync();
		}catch(Exception e){
			e.printStackTrace();
		}finally{
			RedisConnectionUtils.releaseConnection(conn, factory);
		}

It looks like, RedisConnectionUtils.releaseConnection may not in fact, clean up, broken jedis instance - in which case, is there a proper way to disposing of jedis instances? I understand this isn't quite the standard way of using RedisTemplate wrapper.