Support for redis in 0.5.0

[rmeissner]

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Hey, I have a question related to 0.5.0. Looking at commit 949b01c I see that redis support was removed and there is no issue in the milestone for 0.5.0 to add support again.

I am not 100% sure what The latest version of 'redis' is async and implements its own connection retrieval. means, but as redis is a core part of our service structure we could not upgrade without support for it.

So my question is: Will there be support for redis in the final verison of 0.5.0 or will you have any docs/ examples how to use redis with 0.5.0?

We really would love to switch to 0.5.0 once it is released to be able to use stable rust :)

[jebrosen]

Some libraries are being swapped out and upgraded in the transition to async/await; database pools are one of the areas impacted harder than others since most are heavy on network I/O. #[database] has been reworked as a wrapper around some database libraries that are commonly used with rocket but don't have a great async equivalent yet. The latest version of redis is async, though, so the wrapper is unnecessary for it.

So my question is: Will there be support for redis in the final verison of 0.5.0 or will you have any docs/ examples how to use redis with 0.5.0?

#1117 is the "async #[database]" tracking issue. I don't know if it will make it immediately into 0.5, or if it might start out as a separate crate on crates.io first or be added in a minor update to rocket_contrib.

Another example was posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/e9n6mx/creating_and_using_a_postgres_database_pool_is/ a while back. That code should work with deadpool-redis with a few adaptations to the different connection configuration for the database drivers.

[rmeissner]

Thank you for the explainer and the link to the postgres example :) I will try to look into it.

Edit: the postgres example looks very nice :D

[SergioBenitez]

Looks like the only thing left to do here is #1117. Closing.