This change is needed due to some internal changes in one of the
latest minor releases of PHPUnit 4.x that essentially broke how we
were checking for the required Redis version from method annotations.
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 change targets only method annotations and aims to make the body
of tests more readable using the @requiresRedisVersion annotation.
Tests using this annotation requires to be assigned the "connected"
group of tests because they create a connection to the Redis instance
specified in phpunit.xml to fetch its the version.
This is a quick example of how this annotation can be used:
/**
* @group connected
* @requiresRedisVersion >= 2.8.9
*/
public function testExecutedOnlyWithMatchingRedisVersion()
{
}
Future improvements (currently not needed) include:
* Same annotation working on a class-level (but still applied only
to test methods with an explicitly assigned @group connected).
* Ability to specify a version range.
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The base abstract connection class now returns a bool to indicate when
the actual connect() operation has been performed on the underlying
resource. This return value is not part of the interface so extending
classes can decide to not return any value.
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 are verified by checking their IDs and optionally arguments.
Passing a command instance is only a shortcut to set the expected ID
and arguments, commands are never compared for identity but always for
equivalence.
Given the IP address we use for this test (the standard IP assigned by
operating systems when unable to get one lease from a DHCP server), on
certain kernels or network stacks we can get different messages such
as "No route to host". Since we just need to make sure that our test
does not take more than 1 seconds abiding by the sub-second timeout,
we can just live with that.
INFO does not have the concept of sections prior to 2.6.0 while our
test suite can be run against 2.4.0 (provided that phpunit.xml uses
the correct server profile), so we need to make sure that the check
does not break with prior version of Redis even if this is unlikely
to happen at this point.
Also changed a bit the naming of variables since things are already
pretty much explicit in this context.
Redis >= 2.8 returns -WRONGTYPE errors instead of -ERR when executing
operations on wrong key type (such as trying to LPUSH on a string key).
Luckily for us, phpunit's @expectedExceptionMessage annotation actually
does not perform an exact match but works on a substring so we just omit
the initial part of the exception message to make the test work.
Connection classes should just handle, convert and return simple Redis
types while parsing and transforming structured replies should be done
by consumers (see Predis\Client or Predis\Transaction\MultiExecContext).
This actually makes more sense considering that parsing a complex response
with the associated command parser may require different actions. As an
example, the result of EXEC is a multibulk that holds the actual responses,
so we really need to parse each one of its elements and we should also
make sure that iterable multibulks are consumed. We already did that
previously, but it was weird knowing that command parsers were applied
by the connection class.
This also moves some duplicated logic away from each connection class
implementation which is a nice bonus.
The "throw_errors" connection parameter has been removed and replaced by the
new "exceptions" client option since exceptions on -ERR replies returned by
Redis are not generated by connection classes anymore but are thrown by the
client class and other abstractions such as pipeline contexts.
This change does not affect much people using the Predis\Client class (aside
from the different configuration) but gives much more flexibility to those
building their own pieces of code around the internal classes of Predis.
Daniele Alessandri
Raphael Stolt