`RedisClientPool`

Sometimes you want to run your commands on an exclusive connection. There are a few reasons to do this:

You want to run a blocking command that will take over the connection, such as BLPOP or BLMOVE.
You're using transactions and need to WATCH a key or keys for changes.
Some more...

For those use cases you'll need to create a connection pool.

Creating a pool

You can create a pool using the createClientPool function:

javascript

import { createClientPool } from 'redis';

const pool = await createClientPool()
  .on('error', err => console.error('Redis Client Pool Error', err));

the function accepts two arguments, the client configuration (see here for more details), and the pool configuration:

Property	Default	Description
minimum	1	The minimum clients the pool should hold to. The pool won't close clients if the pool size is less than the minimum.
maximum	100	The maximum clients the pool will have at once. The pool won't create any more resources and queue requests in memory.
acquireTimeout	3000	The maximum time (in ms) a task can wait in the queue. The pool will reject the task with `TimeoutError` in case of a timeout.
cleanupDelay	3000	The time to wait before cleaning up unused clients.

You can also create a pool from a client (reusing it's configuration):

javascript

const pool = await client.createPool()
  .on('error', err => console.error('Redis Client Pool Error', err));

The Simple Scenario

All the client APIs are exposed on the pool instance directly, and will execute the commands using one of the available clients.

javascript

await pool.sendCommand(['PING']); // 'PONG'
await client.ping(); // 'PONG'
await client.withTypeMapping({
  [RESP_TYPES.SIMPLE_STRING]: Buffer
}).ping(); // Buffer

Transactions

Things get a little more complex with transactions. Here we are .watch()ing some keys. If the keys change during the transaction, a WatchError is thrown when .exec() is called:

javascript

try {
  await pool.execute(async client => {
    await client.watch('key');

    const multi = client.multi()
      .ping()
      .get('key');

    if (Math.random() > 0.5) {
      await client.watch('another-key');
      multi.set('another-key', await client.get('another-key') / 2);
    }

    return multi.exec();
  });
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof WatchError) {
    // the transaction aborted
  }
}