Achieving compatibility actually required a few marginal changes:
- HHVM still has some issues with re-entrant calls to __get(). The
applied change is an hack simply because it is ugly, but it is not
wrong and does not break the signature of the options interface.
- Since we cannot rely on the PHP version to detect the availability
of socket_import_stream(), we switched to function_exists(). As an
added bonus, using function_exists() is twice faster.
- In the test suite we removed an assertion for the message of an
E_WARNING simply because HHVM emits a different message. Checking
for the warning is actually enough in that context.
While the whole test suite passes on HHVM 2.3.0, please remember that
HHVM is still in development and things could break anytime especially
in some obscure corner cases.
It was too broad in concept and not really that useful, so for now we
assume that only our base Predis\Profile\RedisProfile class can handle
command processing and we will decide later if we want to add a couple
of more methods to Predis\Profile\ProfileInterface.
This commit is a complete rewrite of the classes previously contained
in the Predis\Option namespace aimed at lowering the initialization
overhead while bringing in more consistency. The overall idea is still
the same with a mini DI container, Predis\Configuration\Options, which
carries options with values that can be initialized lazily.
The first difference with our previous implementation is that now even
user-defined options can be initialized lazily, everything needed is
an object responding to the __invoke() magic method such as a closure.
Other kind of callable arguments (strings, arrays) will be treated as
plain values. The only drawback is that we cannot pass any instance of
classes implementing __invoke() as an option value, but considered the
limited scope of our use case we can say it's more of an acceptable
compromise. Callbacks used for lazy initialization will receive two
arguments upon invokation:
- The current instance of Predis\Configuration\Option ($options)
- A string containing the name of the option ($option)
This is an example in actual code:
$options = new Predis\Configuration\Options([
'exceptions' => true,
'profile' => '2.8',
'distributor' => function () {
return new Predis\Cluster\Distribution\KetamaPureRing();
},
'cluster' => function ($options) {
$distr = $options->distributor;
$strategy = new Predis\Cluster\PredisClusterHashStrategy($distr);
$cluster = new Predis\Connection\PredisCluster();
return $cluster;
},
'connections' => function ($options, $option) {
$factory = $options->getDefault($option);
$factory->define('tcp', 'Predis\Connection\PhpiredisConnection');
return $factory;
},
]);
As you can see there's very little difference compared to before in
the actual usage as most changes are under the hood. Some options such
as "exceptions" and "replication" can now correctly parse bool values
from strings (so the string "false" is not evaluated as boolean true).
While options were initially conceived to configure the client and its
behavior, the concept has matured and it's perfectly fine to consider
the use of Predis\Configuration\Options to propagate configurations to
inner parts of the library.
Daniele Alessandri