Extend proxy by nkaradzhov · Pull Request #3105 · redis/node-redis

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The purpose for this PR is to extend the proxy to provide couple of new functionalities:

  • request/response
  • response transformations
  • resp support

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LGTM. I've left some minor improvement suggestions.

this.emit('data', connectionId, 'client->server', data);
serverSocket.write(data);

if(!this.interceptorInitializer) {

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I'm wondering if we can eliminate the branch prediction (if(!this.interceptorInitializer)) entirely by implementing a default "socket write/noop" interceptor that simply performs the socket write when no initializer is provided.

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yes, we can totally do this, in fact it was like that before, but i thought this is better. i will move it back

interface ActiveConnection extends ConnectionInfo {
readonly clientSocket: net.Socket;
readonly serverSocket: net.Socket;
inflightRequestsCount: number

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What do you think about borrowing from node-redis's cache stats approach ? We could start by tracking inflightRequestsCount initially and add more metrics later. This design integrates well if you want to hook in traces, metrics, or logs.

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this is only to distinguish between request/response and push for now. it will go away in nest iteration

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