Status response objects are needed mostly to make it possible from the
client perspective to differentiate a status response with the payload
"OK" from a normale bulk reply containing "OK".
The biggest change is for commands returning +OK responses: these were
previously translated to TRUE (bool value), but they are now returned
as instances of Predis\Response\Status. Just to illustrate an example
of the possibilities with this change we will use SET since it is the
most widely used command returning +OK:
$response = $client->set('foo', 'bar');
echo $response; // 'OK'
$response == 'OK'; // TRUE
isset($response->ok); // TRUE
$response == true; // TRUE
$response === true; // FALSE
$response instanceof Predis\Response\ObjectInterface; // TRUE
$response instanceof Predis\Response\Status; // TRUE
For those checking responses returned by commands such as SET or PONG,
the breaking change basically lies in the usage of strict comparison:
doing $response === true will now evaluate to FALSE instead of TRUE.
By default Predis caches common status responses such as OK or QUEUED
to lower the memory usage when using pipelines or transactions.
We now have a base test case class for Predis (namely PredisTestCase)
grouping various commonly used utility methods shared by all of the
tests in the suite, greatly improving reusability.
Commands such as MULTI, EXEC, DISCARD, WATCH and UNWATCH disregard the
the "exceptions" client option and always result in an exception being
thrown on error responses even when the client is configured to return
those errors ("exceptions" set to FALSE).
We also changed some options for this class, the accepted ones are:
- "keys": string or array of strings for automatic WATCH.
- "cas": sets the check-and-set mode.
- "retry": number of attempts before giving up aborted transactions.
- "exceptions": sets whether exceptions should be thrown on error
responses (overrides the "exceptions" client option).
The "on_retry" option has been removed.