Request: Add support for Redis HASH data type

[Pop0p]

It’d be useful to support Redis HASH operations like hget, hset, hgetall... in the redis driver.

This would allow using Bentocache in setups where some data are stored as hashes, avoiding the need to manage a separate Redis layer manually.

[Julien-R44]

Not totally sure I understand the feature request
Could you share your use case so I can understand a bit more?
Do you have entries stored as HASH in Redis and want to access them through Bentocache instead of using IORedis directly?

If that's the case, I think it will be out of scope for Bentocache, because it would break the whole idea of drivers.

Lemme explain: each driver (in-memory, Redis, database, etc.) has to implement a well-defined interface ( see here )

If we started adding methods like bentocache.hget('foo'), it would break this interface and the compatibility between drivers. Other drivers, like the one for MySQL for example, couldnt implement an hget method.

Instead I would recommend initializing Bentocache with your own IORedis client, and then just reuse that same client for more specific needs:

export const redis = new Redis()
const bento = new BentoCache({
  default: 'redis',
  stores: {
    redis: bentostore().useL2Layer(redisDriver({ connection: redis }))
  }
})

bento.getOrSet('...')
redis.hget('...')

Let me know if I misunderstood your use case!