Migrate to Radix v4

[redisgrafana]

Migrate to Radix v4

[BSVogler]

I think Radix v4 is out of beta. I see no indication that v4 is in beta, but v3 is still the default branch.

[leandro-deveikis]

Hi! sorry to bump this old issue, but is there any plan on migrating to v4? and target version or date?

[slorello89]

Hi @leandro-deveikis no worries, I kept this issue open in case it became apparent that there was a compelling reason to upgrade from Radix 3->4. AFAIK there isn't. Looks like there are some quality-of-life bits and some things around the edges - but I don't see anything, as of this writing, that stands out to justify the effort/risk of revving a major version.

Just so you know, totally open to being wrong about this, I'm conversant in golang but not fluent - if there's a really compelling reason to do it please by all means lay it out for me and I can definitely consider moving forward with the upgrade.

Another possible path (if a change is necessary and if the upgrade is more than a simple version change) is to switch over to the official Redis golang client (go-redis).

Atm the client seems fine and as far as I know is still receiving some patches (though the current version is a year old at this point). So the old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" resonates with me a lot here - at least in the interim.

[leandro-deveikis]

Hi @slorello89 Sorry for the super late response.

For a little bit of more context, I am working on PDC (Private datasource connect - link to docs) on Grafana, and I would like to contribute to enabling PDC on the Redis Datasource, to allow grafana customers to securely connect to their remote Redis instances.

The problem is that RadixV3 doesn't allow configuring a custom dialer, making it impossible to implement PDC. However, if you move to RadixV4, it would be really easy to implement (setting NetDialer here).
I would happily pick up that task and open a PR once V4 is already implemented if you like to. What do you think?

Additional note: I also made successful test with go-redis, so it could be also an alternative.

[leandro-deveikis]

Hi! Any update on this?

[QuentinN42]

Hello, I'm interested to contribute to make this move forward :)

Can you confirm that if I open a MR, someone will be able to review it?