Dependency for redis 2.8.0+ with support for protocol rediss:// (TLS) about cache-service-redis

[jpodwys]

Hi, I'm glad you're finding the library useful!

If I understand you correctly, you'd like cache-service-redis to depend on [email protected]. This package's dependency on node_redis is a relative pin: "redis": "^2.6.2". I just installed it to be certain and it does indeed install [email protected].

If you're not seeing that, then please simply update your installation. Please let me know if I've misunderstood.

[autorTepatiki]

Hi. As the package "redis" is not been tagged since 2 years ago, it doesnt include the rediss:// protocol nor TLS, fundamental pieces to connect to ElasticCache. My question tried to address this point, trying to see if the dependency in your package could be changed directly to an own fork from Github (master branch of "redis") to get those changes reflected. This would be "A" plan, because the other library that really supports rediss:// (TLS) is "ioredis", but this will be a mayor change in your repo I think.

[jpodwys]

Thank you for helping me to understand, I didn't realize that there hasn't been a release in over two years.

I'm uncomfortable pinning the master branch of cache-service-redis to the master branch of node_redis.

Here are two possible solutions:

1. I'd like to cut a new major release (3.0.0) that would switch to ioredis. I'm not certain how much work is involved, but I just switched to ioredis locally and all of my unit tests still pass. I'm guessing it breaks things somewhere, but I need to investigate more.
2. If you can't wait for/contribute to such a release, then please feel free to fork both repos and pin to your forks in the mean time.

What do you think?

[autorTepatiki]

Yes, that is. Both options are fine to me, Plan 1 + plan 2. Thank you very much.

[jpodwys]

@martindcernadas I haven't yet had time to update this beyond running the unit tests with ioredis. I noticed that you made a fork and switched to ioredis. I'm curious if you've used it. If so, how is it functioning for you?