Redis to valkey?

[mlathara]

I was wondering if there was any interest or ongoing work in migrating from redis to valkey? Or in adding valkey as a separate backend for this project?

[Dreamsorcerer]

If someone wants to do the work, I think switching the existing redis backend to valkey would be fine.

[jules-ch]

Monkeypatching should do the trick:

>>> import valkey.asyncio as redis
>>> redis.Redis = redis.Valkey # valkey does not ship with Redis in asyncio module
>>> from aiocache import BaseCache, Cache
>>> aiocache.backends.redis.redis = redis

>>> cache = Cache.from_url(settings.CACHE_URL)
<valkey.client.Valkey(<valkey.connection.ConnectionPool(<valkey.connection.Connection(host=127.0.0.1,port=6379,db=0)>)>)>

[Dreamsorcerer]

If all you need is to change the import, should be simple to create a PR, rather than monkeypatching.

[jules-ch]

People might be interested in choosing their client either redis or valkey.
Creating a dedicated backend might be the way to do just that.