Only named arrays are explicitly accepted now, but the old behaviour
of creating a connection parameters instance out of an URI string or
a named array is still available using the "create()" static method.
$array = ['host' => '127.0.0.1', 'timeout' => 1];
$uri = 'tcp://127.0.0.1?timeout=1';
$parameters = new ConnectionParameters($array); // Arrays only
$parameters = ConnectionParameters::create($array); // Arrays OK
$parameters = ConnectionParameters::create($uri); // Strings OK
The purpose of the change is to have a more concise constructor with a
well defined signature.
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.
This should make things a tiny bit faster (we are speaking about micro
optimizations anyway) but more importantly it results in a better
encapsulation.
The reason for this change is to support the upcoming redis-cluster since
it has different behaviors compared to the client-side cluster implementation
provided by Predis. For example redis-cluster will not support key tags or
certain operations currently available with our client-side implementation.
The reason for this change is that not every cluster implementation can support
this behaviour, think of Redis cluster for example. We moved the implementation
of this method in Predis\Connection\PredisCluster since it can still be useful.
Daniele Alessandri