CHANGELOG.md

v0.8.1 (2013-01-19)

• The connections client option can now accept a callable object returning an instance of Predis\Connection\ConnectionFactoryInterface.

• Client options accepting callable objects as factories now pass their actual instance to the callable as the second argument.

• Predis\Command\Processor\KeyPrefixProcessor can now be directly casted to string to obtain the current prefix, useful with string interpolation.

• Added an optional callable argument to Predis\Cluster\Distribution\HashRing and Predis\Cluster\Distribution\KetamaPureRing constructor that can be used to customize how the distributor should extract the connection hash when initializing the nodes distribution (ISSUE #36).

• Correctly handle TTL and PTTL returning -2 on non existing keys starting with Redis 2.8.

• FIX: a missing use directive in Predis\Transaction\MultiExecContext caused PHP errors when Redis did not return +QUEUED replies to commands when inside a MULTI / EXEC context.

• FIX: the parseResponse() method implemented for a scripted command was ignored when retrying to execute a Lua script by falling back to EVAL after a -NOSCRIPT error (ISSUE #94).

• FIX: when subclassing Predis\Client the getClientFor() method returns a new instance of the subclass instead of a new instance of Predis\Client.

v0.8.0 (2012-10-23)

• The default server profile for Redis is now 2.6.

• Certain connection parameters have been renamed:

  • connection_async is now async_connect
  • connection_timeout is now timeout
  • connection_persistent is now persistent

• 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 instead are thrown by the client class and other abstractions such as pipeline contexts.

• Added smart support for redis-cluster (Redis v3.0) in addition to the usual cluster implementation that uses client-side sharding.

• Various namespaces and classes have been renamed to follow rules inspired by the Symfony2 naming conventions.

• The second argument of the constructor of Predis\Client does not accept strings or instances of Predis\Profile\ServerProfileInterface anymore. To specify a server profile you must explicitly set profile in the array of client options.

• Predis\Command\ScriptedCommand internally relies on EVALSHA instead of EVAL thus avoiding to send Lua scripts bodies on each request. The client automatically resends the command falling back to EVAL when Redis returns a -NOSCRIPT error. Automatic fallback to EVAL does not work with pipelines, inside a MULTI / EXEC context or with plain EVALSHA commands.

• Complex responses are no more parsed by connection classes as they must be processed by consumer classes using the handler associated to the issued command. This means that executing commands directly on connections only returns simple Redis types, but nothing changes when using Predis\Client or the provided abstractions for pipelines and transactions.

• Iterators for multi-bulk replies now skip the response parsing method of the command that generated the response and are passed directly to user code. Pipeline and transaction objects still consume automatically iterators.

• Cluster and replication connections now extend a new common interface, Predis\Connection\AggregatedConnectionInterface.

• Predis\Connection\MasterSlaveReplication now uses an external strategy class to handle the logic for checking readable / writable commands and Lua scripts.

• Command pipelines have been optimized for both speed and code cleanness, but at the cost of bringing a breaking change in the signature of the interface for pipeline executors.

• Added a new pipeline executor that sends commands wrapped in a MULTI / EXEC context to make the execution atomic: if a pipeline fails at a certain point then the whole pipeline is discarded.

• The key-hashing mechanism for commands is now handled externally and is no more a competence of each command class. This change is neeeded to support both client-side sharding and Redis cluster.

• Predis\Options\Option is now abstract, see Predis\Option\AbstractOption.

v0.7.3 (2012-06-01)

• New commands available in the Redis v2.6 profile (dev): BITOP, BITCOUNT.

• When the number of keys Predis\Commands\ScriptedCommand is negative, Predis will count from the end of the arguments list to calculate the actual number of keys that will be interpreted as elements for KEYS by the underlying EVAL command.

• FIX: examples\CustomDistributionStrategy.php had a mistyped constructor call and produced a bad distribution due to an error as pointed in ISSUE #63. This bug is limited to the above mentioned example and does not affect the classes implemented in the Predis\Distribution namespace.

• FIX: Predis\Commands\ServerEvalSHA::getScriptHash() was calculating the hash while it just needs to return the first argument of the command.

• FIX: Predis\Autoloader has been modified to allow cascading autoloaders for the Predis namespace.

v0.7.2 (2012-04-01)

• Added 2.6 in the server profiles aliases list for the upcoming Redis 2.6. 2.4 is still the default server profile. dev now targets Redis 2.8.

• Connection instances can be serialized and unserialized using serialize() and unserialize(). This is handy in certain scenarios such as client-side clustering or replication to lower the overhead of initializing a connection object with many sub-connections since unserializing them can be up to 5x times faster.

• Reworked the default autoloader to make it faster. It is also possible to prepend it in PHP's autoload stack.

• FIX: fixed parsing of the payload returned by MONITOR with Redis 2.6.

v0.7.1 (2011-12-27)

• The PEAR channel on PearHub has been deprecated in favour of pear.nrk.io.

• Miscellaneous minor fixes.

• Added transparent support for master / slave replication configurations where write operations are performed on the master server and read operations are routed to one of the slaves. Please refer to ISSUE #21 for a bit of history and more details about replication support in Predis.

• The profile client option now accepts a callable object used to initialize a new instance of Predis\Profiles\IServerProfile.

• Exposed a method for MULTI / EXEC contexts that adds the ability to execute instances of Redis commands against transaction objects.

v0.7.0 (2011-12-11)

• Predis now adheres to the PSR-0 standard which means that there is no more a single file holding all the classes of the library, but multiple files (one for each class). You can use any PSR-0 compatible autoloader to load Predis or just leverage the default one shipped with the library by requiring the Predis/Autoloader.php and call Predis\Autoloader::register().

• The default server profile for Redis is now 2.4. The dev profile supports all the features of Redis 2.6 (currently unstable) such as Lua scripting.

• Support for long aliases (method names) for Redis commands has been dropped.

• Redis 1.0 is no more supported. From now on Predis will use only the unified protocol to serialize commands.

• It is possible to prefix keys transparently on a client-level basis with the new prefix client option.

• An external connection factory is used to initialize new connection instances and developers can now register their own connection classes using the new connections client option.

• It is possible to connect locally to Redis using UNIX domain sockets. Just use unix:///path/to/redis.sock or a named array just like in the following example: array('scheme' => 'unix', 'path' => '/path/to/redis.sock');.

• If the phpiredis extension is loaded by PHP, it is now possible to use an alternative connection class that leverages it to make Predis faster on many cases, especially when dealing with big multibulk replies, with the the only downside that persistent connections are not supported. Please refer to the documentation to see how to activate this class using the new connections client option.

• Predis is capable to talk with Webdis, albeit with some limitations such as the lack of pipelining and transactions, just by using the http scheme in in the connection parameters. All is needed is PHP with the curl and the phpiredis extensions loaded.

• Way too many changes in the public API to make a list here, we just tried to make all the Redis commands compatible with previous releases of v0.6 so that you do not have to worry if you are simply using Predis as a client. Probably the only breaking changes that should be mentioned here are:

  • throw_on_error has been renamed to throw_errors and it is a connection parameter instead of a client option, along with iterable_multibulk.

  • key_distribution has been removed from the client options. To customize the distribution strategy you must provide a callable object to the new cluster client option to configure and then return a new instance of Predis\Network\IConnectionCluster.

  • Predis\Client::create() has been removed. Just use the constructor to set up a new instance of Predis\Client.

  • Predis\Client::pipelineSafe() was deprecated in Predis v0.6.1 and now has finally removed. Use Predis\Client::pipeline(array('safe' => true)).

  • Predis\Client::rawCommand() has been removed due to inconsistencies with the underlying connection abstractions. You can still get the raw resource out of a connection with Predis\Network\IConnectionSingle::getResource() so that you can talk directly with Redis.

• The Predis\MultiBulkCommand class has been merged into Predis\Command and thus removed. Serialization of commands is now a competence of connections.

• The Predis\IConnection interface has been splitted into two new interfaces: Predis\Network\IConnectionSingle and Predis\Network\IConnectionCluster.

• The constructor of Predis\Client now accepts more type of arguments such as instances of Predis\IConnectionParameters and Predis\Network\IConnection.

v0.6.6 (2011-04-01)

• Switched to Redis 2.2 as the default server profile (there are no changes that would break compatibility with previous releases). Long command names are no more supported by default but if you need them you can still require Predis_Compatibility.php to avoid breaking compatibility.

• Added a VERSION constant to Predis\Client.

• Some performance improvements for multibulk replies (parsing them is about 16% faster than the previous version). A few core classes have been heavily optimized to reduce overhead when creating new instances.

• Predis now uses by default a new protocol reader, more lightweight and faster than the default handler-based one. Users can revert to the old protocol reader with the reader client option set to composable. This client option can also accept custom reader classes implementing the new Predis\IResponseReader interface.

• Added support for connecting to Redis using UNIX domain sockets (ISSUE #25).

• The read_write_timeout connection parameter can now be set to 0 or false to disable read and write timeouts on connections. The old behaviour of -1 is still intact.

• ZUNIONSTORE and ZINTERSTORE can accept an array to specify a list of the source keys to be used to populate the destination key.

• MGET, SINTER, SUNION and SDIFF can accept an array to specify a list of keys. SINTERSTORE, SUNIONSTORE and SDIFFSTORE can also accept an array to specify the list of source keys.

• SUBSCRIBE and PSUBSCRIBE can accept a list of channels for subscription.

• FIX: some client-side clean-ups for MULTI/EXEC were handled incorrectly in a couple of corner cases (ISSUE #27).

v0.6.5 (2011-02-12)

• FIX: due to an untested internal change introduced in v0.6.4, a wrong handling of bulk reads of zero-length values was producing protocol desynchronization errors (ISSUE #20).

v0.6.4 (2011-02-12)

• Various performance improvements (15% ~ 25%) especially when dealing with long multibulk replies or when using clustered connections.

• Added the on_retry option to Predis\MultiExecBlock that can be used to specify an external callback (or any callable object) that gets invoked whenever a transaction is aborted by the server.

• Added inline (p)subscribtion via options when initializing an instance of Predis\PubSubContext.

v0.6.3 (2011-01-01)

• New commands available in the Redis v2.2 profile (dev):

  • Strings: SETRANGE, GETRANGE, SETBIT, GETBIT
  • Lists : BRPOPLPUSH

• The abstraction for MULTI/EXEC transactions has been dramatically improved by providing support for check-and-set (CAS) operations when using Redis >= 2.2. Aborted transactions can also be optionally replayed in automatic up to a user-defined number of times, after which a Predis\AbortedMultiExec exception is thrown.

v0.6.2 (2010-11-28)

• Minor internal improvements and clean ups.

• New commands available in the Redis v2.2 profile (dev):

  • Strings: STRLEN
  • Lists : LINSERT, RPUSHX, LPUSHX
  • ZSets : ZREVRANGEBYSCORE
  • Misc. : PERSIST

• WATCH also accepts a single array parameter with the keys that should be monitored during a transaction.

• Improved the behaviour of Predis\MultiExecBlock in certain corner cases.

• Improved parameters checking for the SORT command.

• FIX: the STORE parameter for the SORT command didn't work correctly when using 0 as the target key (ISSUE #13).

• FIX: the methods for UNWATCH and DISCARD do not break anymore method chaining with Predis\MultiExecBlock.

v0.6.1 (2010-07-11)

• Minor internal improvements and clean ups.

• New commands available in the Redis v2.2 profile (dev):

  • Misc. : WATCH, UNWATCH

• Optional modifiers for ZRANGE, ZREVRANGE and ZRANGEBYSCORE queries are supported using an associative array passed as the last argument of their respective methods.

• The LIMIT modifier for ZRANGEBYSCORE can be specified using either:

  • an indexed array: array($offset, $count)
  • an associative array: array('offset' => $offset, 'count' => $count)

• The method Predis\Client::__construct() now accepts also instances of Predis\ConnectionParameters.

• Predis\MultiExecBlock and Predis\PubSubContext now throw an exception when trying to create their instances using a profile that does not support the required Redis commands or when the client is connected to a cluster of connections.

• Various improvements to Predis\MultiExecBlock:

  • fixes and more consistent behaviour across various usage cases.
  • support for WATCH and UNWATCH when using the current development profile (Redis v2.2) and aborted transactions.

• New signature for Predis\Client::multiExec() which is now able to accept an array of options for the underlying instance of Predis\MultiExecBlock. Backwards compatibility with previous releases of Predis is ensured.

• New signature for Predis\Client::pipeline() which is now able to accept an array of options for the underlying instance of Predis\CommandPipeline. Backwards compatibility with previous releases of Predis is ensured. The method Predis\Client::pipelineSafe() is to be considered deprecated.

• FIX: The WEIGHT modifier for ZUNIONSTORE and ZINTERSTORE was handled incorrectly with more than two weights specified.

v0.6.0 (2010-05-24)

• Switched to the new multi-bulk request protocol for all of the commands in the Redis 1.2 and Redis 2.0 profiles. Inline and bulk requests are now deprecated as they will be removed in future releases of Redis.

• The default server profile is 2.0 (targeting Redis 2.0.x). If you are using older versions of Redis, it is highly recommended that you specify which server profile the client should use (e.g. 1.2 when connecting to instances of Redis 1.2.x).

• Support for Redis 1.0 is now optional and it is provided by requiring 'Predis_Compatibility.php' before creating an instance of Predis\Client.

• New commands added to the Redis 2.0 profile since Predis 0.5.1:

  • Strings: SETEX, APPEND, SUBSTR
  • ZSets : ZCOUNT, ZRANK, ZUNIONSTORE, ZINTERSTORE, ZREMBYRANK, ZREVRANK
  • Hashes : HSET, HSETNX, HMSET, HINCRBY, HGET, HMGET, HDEL, HEXISTS, HLEN, HKEYS, HVALS, HGETALL
  • PubSub : PUBLISH, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE
  • Misc. : DISCARD, CONFIG

• Introduced client-level options with the new Predis\ClientOptions class. Options can be passed to the constructor of Predis\Client in its second argument as an array or an instance of Predis\ClientOptions. For brevity's sake and compatibility with older versions, the constructor still accepts an instance of Predis\RedisServerProfile in its second argument. The currently supported client options are:

  • profile [default: 2.0 as of Predis 0.6.0]: specifies which server profile to use when connecting to Redis. This option accepts an instance of Predis\RedisServerProfile or a string that indicates the version.

  • key_distribution [default: Predis\Distribution\HashRing]: specifies which key distribution strategy to use to distribute keys among the servers that compose a cluster. This option accepts an instance of Predis\Distribution\IDistributionStrategy so that users can implement their own key distribution strategy. Predis\Distribution\KetamaPureRing is an alternative distribution strategy providing a pure-PHP implementation of the same algorithm used by libketama.

  • throw_on_error [default: TRUE]: server errors can optionally be handled "silently": instead of throwing an exception, the client returns an error response type.

  • iterable_multibulk [EXPERIMENTAL - default: FALSE]: in addition to the classic way of fetching a whole multibulk reply into an array, the client can now optionally stream a multibulk reply down to the user code by using PHP iterators. It is just a little bit slower, but it can save a lot of memory in certain scenarios.

• New parameters for connections:

  • alias [default: not set]: every connection can now be identified by an alias that is useful to get a specific connections when connected to a cluster of Redis servers.
  • weight [default: not set]: allows to balance keys asymmetrically across multiple servers. This is useful when you have servers with different amounts of memory to distribute the load of your keys accordingly.
  • connection_async [default: FALSE]: estabilish connections to servers in a non-blocking way, so that the client is not blocked while the socket resource performs the actual connection.
  • connection_persistent [default: FALSE]: the underlying socket resource is left open when a script ends its lifecycle. Persistent connections can lead to unpredictable or strange behaviours, so they should be used with extreme care.

• Introduced the Predis\Pipeline\IPipelineExecutor interface. Classes that implements this interface are used internally by the Predis\CommandPipeline class to change the behaviour of the pipeline when writing/reading commands from one or multiple servers. Here is the list of the default executors:

  • Predis\Pipeline\StandardExecutor: exceptions generated by server errors might be thrown depending on the options passed to the client (see the throw_on_error client option). Instead, protocol or network errors always throw exceptions. This is the default executor for single and clustered connections and shares the same behaviour of Predis 0.5.x.
  • Predis\Pipeline\SafeExecutor: exceptions generated by server, protocol or network errors are not thrown but returned in the response array as instances of Predis\ResponseError or Predis\CommunicationException.
  • Predis\Pipeline\SafeClusterExecutor: this executor shares the same behaviour of Predis\Pipeline\SafeExecutor but it is geared towards clustered connections.

• Support for PUB/SUB is handled by the new Predis\PubSubContext class, which could also be used to build a callback dispatcher for PUB/SUB scenarios.

• When connected to a cluster of connections, it is now possible to get a new Predis\Client instance for a single connection of the cluster by passing its alias/index to the new Predis\Client::getClientFor() method.

• Predis\CommandPipeline and Predis\MultiExecBlock return their instances when invokink commands, thus allowing method chaining in pipelines and multi-exec blocks.

• Predis\MultiExecBlock can handle the new DISCARD command.

• Connections now support float values for the connection_timeout parameter to express timeouts with a microsecond resolution.

• FIX: TCP connections now respect the read/write timeout parameter when reading the payload of server responses. Previously, stream_get_contents() was being used internally to read data from a connection but it looks like PHP does not honour the specified timeout for socket streams when inside this function.

• FIX: The GET parameter for the SORT command now accepts also multiple key patterns by passing an array of strings. (ISSUE #1).

• FIX: Replies to the DEL command return the number of elements deleted by the server and not 0 or 1 interpreted as a boolean response. (ISSUE #4).

v0.5.1 (2010-01-23)

• RPOPLPUSH has been changed from bulk command to inline command in Redis 1.2.1, so ListPopLastPushHead now extends InlineCommand. The old behavior is still available via the ListPopLastPushHeadBulk class so that you can override the server profile if you need the old (and uncorrect) behaviour when connecting to a Redis 1.2.0 instance.

• Added missing support for BGREWRITEAOF for Redis >= 1.2.0.

• Implemented a factory method for the RedisServerProfile class to ease the creation of new server profile instances based on a version string.

v0.5.0 (2010-01-09)

• First versioned release of Predis