Hi welcome to 2020 can we have a redis set that is async without bringing in bluebird

[xtianus79]

I think we could do without the bluebird now.

[stockholmux]

It's still 2019.

[mirnpnh]

There seems to be no way to have typed definitions of Redis in typescript with Promises enabled (Except creating definition files of course). So I really hope an update comes up for this :(

[stockholmux]

@xtianus79 You know you can use util.promisify, right?

Admittedly, you need to do it on a per-command basis and MULTI/EXEC is... inelegant syntax wise.

[BobbieBarker]

This is a really unprofessional way to ask for a feature request in a FOSS library. If you're so consumed with having access to this feature why don't you do the polite or productive thing and either open a PR with the change that you think will help the community, write your own redis client, or work with the maintainers to do the above. Opening a snarky one liner issue where you just complain that things aren't how you think they should be isn't helpful or productive to the community and it reflects poorly upon yourself.

[xtianus79]

@BobbieBarker it was meant to be funny no harm intended!
Also me, what you're saying applies to you as well.

[yi-huan]

Is this okay?

const { promisify } = require('util');
const redis = require('redis');

let client = new Proxy(redis.createClient(), {
    get: (target, propKey, receiver) => {
        let asyncKey = typeof propKey === 'string' && propKey.endsWith('Async') && propKey.slice(0, -5);
        if (asyncKey) {
            return promisify(Reflect.get(target, asyncKey, receiver)).bind(receiver);
        }
        return Reflect.get(target, propKey, receiver);
    }
});

// use
client.setAsync('string key', 'val').then(res => {
    console.log(res);
});

[xtianus79]

Thanks @yi-huan that is a good solution but it isn't a complete promised based solution

[mmkal]

@xtianus79 @Innomalist I wrote a client which might be what you're looking for - it wraps this library (its only dependency) and adds promise and typescript support: https://npmjs.com/package/handy-redis.

[xtianus79]

@mmkal does it do clusters?

[BridgeAR]

@BobbieBarker thank you very much for your considering words!

The main issue is indeed that this project is not supported in any way and that allowed very little maintenance.

I am closing this as duplicate of #864. I actually worked on a promise based client a while back but using promises was slower at that point of time and thus I did not publish it. I'll push the code later on to a feature branch.