to support ioredis.

README.md

@@ -4,19 +4,24 @@
 
 Fastify Redis connection plugin, with this you can share the same Redis connection in every part of your server.
 
-Under the hood the official [redis](https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis) client is used, the options that you pass to `register` will be passed to the Redis client.
+Under the hood the official [redis](https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis) client is used, the ``options`` that you pass to `register` will be passed to the Redis client.
 
 ## Install
 ```
 npm i fastify-redis --save
 ```
 ## Usage
-Add it to you project with `register` and you are done!  
+Add it to you project with `register` and you are done!
 You can access the *Redis* client via `fastify.redis`.
+
+If needed, you can pass a custom ``driver`` option, such as [ioredis](https://github.com/luin/ioredis). By default the official [redis](https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis) client is used.
+
+
 ```js
 const fastify = require('fastify')
 
 fastify.register(require('fastify-redis'), {
+  driver: require('ioredis'),
   host: '127.0.0.1'
 }, err => {
   if (err) throw err

index.js

@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ const redis = require('redis')
 
 function fastifyRedis (fastify, options, next) {
   var client = null
-
   try {
-    client = redis.createClient(options)
+    // if custom redis module, default is redis.
+    const Driver = options.driver
+    delete options.driver
+    client = Driver ? new Driver(options) : redis.createClient(options)
   } catch (err) {
     return next(err)
   }

package.json

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   "homepage": "https://github.com/fastify/fastify-redis#readme",
   "devDependencies": {
     "fastify": "^0.30.2",
+    "ioredis": "^3.2.1",
     "standard": "^10.0.3",
     "tap": "^10.7.2"
   },

test.js

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ t.beforeEach(done => {
 test('fastify.redis should exist', t => {
   t.plan(3)
   const fastify = Fastify()
-
   fastify.register(fastifyRedis, {
     host: '127.0.0.1'
   }, (err) => {
@@ -66,3 +65,48 @@ test('fastify.redis should be the redis client', t => {
     })
   })
 })
+
+test('fastify.redis should exist when use the custom redis driver', t => {
+  t.plan(3)
+  const fastify = Fastify()
+
+  fastify.register(fastifyRedis, {
+    driver: require('ioredis'),
+    host: '127.0.0.1'
+  }, (err) => {
+    t.error(err)
+  })
+
+  fastify.ready(err => {
+    t.error(err)
+    t.ok(fastify.redis)
+
+    fastify.close()
+  })
+})
+
+test('fastify.redis should be the redis client when use the custom redis driver', t => {
+  t.plan(5)
+  const fastify = Fastify()
+
+  fastify.register(fastifyRedis, {
+    driver: require('ioredis'),
+    host: '127.0.0.1'
+  }, (err) => {
+    t.error(err)
+  })
+
+  fastify.ready(err => {
+    t.error(err)
+
+    fastify.redis.set('key', 'value', err => {
+      t.error(err)
+      fastify.redis.get('key', (err, val) => {
+        t.error(err)
+        t.equal(val, 'value')
+
+        fastify.close()
+      })
+    })
+  })
+})