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A Laravel + Redis library to create more advanced caching datastructures

This package is tested with PHP 7.4 & PHP 8.0,
with Laravel 6 and above,
and with both the predis/predis package & with the native phpredis ext.

Usage

Current datastructures in this package:

IndexedCache

IndexedCache caches objects, and optionally maintains one or more secondary indexes for those objects.

$cache = new IndexedCache(

    // Name, prefix where the cached objects are stored
    'colorcache',

    // A callback used to determine where the (integer) primary key can be found on the object
    fn(Color $color) => $color->id,

    // An array with secondary index definitions.
    ['color' => fn(Color $color) => $color->color]
);

Color is just a simple DTO class in this example, but it could be any serializable object or Model.

class Color
{
    public int $id;
    public string $color;
}

Expiration for the objects can be set, as well as a handler for cache misses:

$cache->setTimeToLive(CarbonInterval::day())
    ->setOnMiss(fn(int $id) => new Color($id, 'purple'));

The cache can be warmed all at once, or populated with individual items:

$collection = new ColorCollection([
    new Color(1, 'green'),
    new Color(2, 'blue'),
    new Color(3, 'green')
]);

$cache->warm($collection);              // Flush & populate the cache
$cache->warm($collection, false);       // Do not flush, just extend the cache with missing items

$purple = new Color(4, 'purple');
$cache->put($purple); 

Because we defined which properties on the object represent the "primary" and (optionally) "secondary" keys, we can efficiently retrieve items from the cache:

// Find by primary index (unique),
// O(1)
$color = $cache->find(4);
$this->assertEquals($purple, $color);

// Find by secondary index (non unique, collection),
// O(log(N)+M), equal time complexity to an SQL BTREE index.
$colorCollection = $cache->findBy('color', $color);
$this->assertEquals(2, $colorCollection->count());

// Group by secondary index
$colorCollection = $cache->groupBy('color');
$this->assertEquals(['blue', 'green', 'purple'], $colorCollection->keys());

findBy returns a plain Illuminate\Support\Collection with all the objects matching the indexed constraint.
This can of course be converted into a custom collection using something like ->pipeInto(ColorCollection::class).

groupBy returns a LazyCollection with multiple Collections inside, with all objects grouped by the provided secondary index.

Finally, the whole cache can also be retrieved, or emptied:

$colorCollection = $cache->all();
$cache->flush();

Testing

Run composer update, and then composer test

By default, it will use the predis client, and assume connection details as defined in phpunit.xml.dist. This can be customized by copying and editing the dist file to phpunit.xml before running the tests.

On Github Actions, the package is tested against both predis & phpredis.