Redis 3.0 does not really change much in terms of commands (most of
the ones implemented in the "unstable" branch have been backported to
the "2.8" branch after all) aside from a few cluster-related ones, so
we can bump the default version without worries.
Simply overriding one method of the standard connection factory class,
used internally by Predis, allows developers to use their own custom
connection parameters classes through the whole library.
For example, in order to support Heroku-style URIs one can do:
class HerokuParameters extends Predis\Connection\Parameters
{
protected function filter(array $parameters)
{
if (
isset($parameters['scheme']) &&
$parameters['scheme'] === 'redis'
) {
$parameters['scheme'] = 'tcp';
}
if (isset($parameters['pass'])) {
$parameters['password'] = $parameters['pass'];
}
unset($parameters['user'], $parameters['pass']);
return $parameters;
}
}
class ConnectionFactory extends Predis\Connection\Factory
{
protected function createParameters($parameters)
{
return HerokuParameters::create($parameters);
}
}
$client = new Predis\Client($_ENV['REDISCLOUD_URL'], [
'connections' => new ConnectionFactory()
]);
This idea comes in response to #196, but since we do not want to bake
support for SaaS-specific URIs in Predis this is the best compromise
we can offer leave developers free to implement their own logic for
handling these kind of URIs with the additional benefit of having it
available through the whole library (think of cluster or replication
where you have multiple nodes, thus multiple instances of connection
parameters to create).
This is a regression of commit 4db0017, using stream_socket_recvfrom()
bypasses stream wrappers thus read/write timeouts handled by PHP. The
only way to make them work again is to fetch the raw socket from the
stream resource and use socket_import_stream() which is unfortunately
a PHP 5.4+ function.
Casting values supplied by users should be done by the consumer since
we cannot cover any possible use case anyway. It is still possible to
subclass Predis\Connection\Parameters and override the filter() method
to convert certain values if deemed necessary.
This change actually had a positive impact on the design of the whole
internals for clustering which is now cleaner and easier to maintain.
It is still far from perfect, but we also have to keep performances in
consideration so we can say that we ended up with a good compromise.
Previously Predis assigned an hash to each command instance which was
computed from its key, now we changed approach and the library caches
the slot assigned to each command. This works for both our client-side
sharding cluster and the upcoming redis-cluster, but the former is the
one that needed most changes.
The PredisCluster aggregate connection now only takes an instance of
StrategyInterface, which in turn wraps the chosen distributor. After
all, in order to be able to calculate the assigned slot for a command
or key, the cluster strategy must have access to the distributor that
manages the distribution of the whole keyspace. Nothing really changes
in terms of configurability as it is still possible to decide which
distributor to use for client-side sharding, it is simply different:
$distributor = new Predis\Cluster\Distribution\KetamaRing();
$strategy = new Predis\Cluster\PredisStrategy($distributor);
$cluster = new Predis\Connection\Aggregate\PredisCluster($strategy);
As for the RedisCluster aggregate connection, the only change is that
the mathematical operation of calculating the assigned slot from a key
has been completely moved inside the cluster strategy instance.
The strategy for redis-cluster does not use external distributors so
trying to StrategyInterface::getDistributor() will throw an exception.
This may change in future releases, but this is not a priority since
redis-cluster relies on a fixed, well-defined distribution mechanism.
This optimization makes it possible to fetch the slots map directly
from the server indicated by the -MOVED response eliminating the need
to use a random node in the pool, which in turn could require Predis
to open a new and useless connection.
This is a more sane default as it allows users to indicate only a few
servers of the whole cluster composition, while it previously required
a more complex configuration of the client using client options.
This feature can be disabled using the "enableAutoSlotsMap()" method.
It is better to wrap explicitly a multibulk response iterator into a
multibulk tuple response iterator instead of hard-coding that into a
specialized method.
The command returns the response as is, but it would probably be not a
bad idea to parse it to restructure returned info using named arrays,
making it easier to access single commands and their info.
We will keep it as is for now, and investigate this change later.
This change is possible because, after a few changes in redis-cluster,
our default cluster strategy used for client side sharding and the one
used for redis-cluster turned out to be exactly the same, except for
the hashing function used to calculate distribution.
Actually some checks used to enforce correctness are redundant in the
context of redis-cluster (e.g. the one used to make sure that keys in
requests performing cross-keys operations will hash to the same slot,
which is performed by the server) so we could also add a more dumb and
permissive cluster strategy that relies on checks performed by Redis.
Differently to v0.8, the strategy for client-side sharding now uses
the same rules for extracting hash tags from keys especially when
empty tags are found in the string.
Daniele Alessandri
Thibaud BARDIN