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