Redis Streams Aggregator
A connection collapser and toolkit built around Redis5's XADD and XREAD commands, powered by ioredis
What? Why?
Redis 5 adds Streams, a powerful new data structure which simplifies the construction of real-time applications. The new XREAD command blocks a redis connection while awaiting new data, allows reading from multiple streams, and can be canceled with the new CLIENT UNBLOCK command. This package wraps XREAD and XADD such that new subscriptions automatically UNBLOCK the existing stream, add their new subscription (and handle offset tracking), and restart the stream. The end effect is that you'll need only two Redis connections open - one for reading and one for writing (including the UNBLOCKing).
With redis-streams-aggregator
, you can just call .subscribe()
and .add()
and leave the stream management to us!
Install
yarn add redis-streams-aggregator
Use
const RedisStreamsAgg = ;const streams = ; // options like: { host: ..., port: ... } etc // Sign up for XREAD, get all messages to 'testId' in real-timestreams; // Write data to a stream (very thin wrapper around XADD)streams;
API Documentation
Messages
Messages events provide arrays of "Message" objects, which have the following properties:
const Message = offset: string key: value key2: value2...
For example, consider the following:
// Serverstreams; streams;
Server
RedisStreamsAggregator(options)
Where "options" is an object with the following properties:
Option | Required | Default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
host |
no | localhost |
Redis host uri |
port |
no | 6379 |
Redis port |
serialize |
no | JSON.stringify |
A function for encoding published objects |
unserialize |
no | JSON.parse |
A function for decoding published objects |
const server = host: "192.168.0.1" port: 6379;
Server Events
- ready - Connected to Redis
- connect - A new socket has connected
- error - An error has been encountered (connection to Redis failed, etc)