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-# nio-redis
-Non-blocking, event-driven Swift client for Redis.
+# NIORedis: Client for Redis server built on NIO
+This package includes two modules: `NIORedis` and `Redis`, which provide clients that handle connection to, authorizing, and 
+executing commands against a Redis server.
+
+`NIORedis` provides channel handlers for encoding / decoding between Swift native types and [Redis' Serialization Protocol (RESP)](https://redis.io/topics/protocol).
+
+`Redis` is an abstraction layer that wraps `NIORedis` to be callback based with `DispatchQueue`.
+
+# Motivation
+Implementations of Redis connections have decayed as newer capabilities of the Swift STD Library, SwiftNIO, and the Swift language itself have developed.
+
+As part of the iniative of trying to push the ecosystem to be centered around SwiftNIO, a framework-agnostic driver on Redis can provide an
+easier time for feature development on Redis.
+
+# Proposed Solution
+A barebones implementation is available at [mordil/nio-redis](https://github.com/mordil/nio-redis).
+
+The following are already implemented, with unit tests:
+
+- Connection and Authorization
+- Raw commands
+- Convienence methods for:
+  - GET
+  - SET
+  - AUTH
+  - DEL
+  - SELECT
+  - EXPIRE
+- NIO-wrapped abstractions for
+  - Client
+  - Connection
+  - GET command
+- Unit tests for
+  - Response decoding to native Swift
+  - Message encoding to RESP
+  - Connections
+  - implemented commands
+
+This package is a re-implementation of [vapor/redis](https://github.com/vapor/redis) stripped down to only build on SwiftNIO to be framework agnostic.
+
+Much of this was inspired by the [NIOPostgres pitch](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-swiftnio-based-postgresql-client/18020).
+
+# Details Solution
+
+> **NOTE: This this is written against SwiftNIO 2.0, and as such requires Swift 5.0!**
+
+This is to take advantage of the [`Result`](https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0235-add-result.md) type in the `Redis` module,
+and to stay ahead of development of the next version of SwiftNIO.
+
+## NIORedis
+Most use of this library will be focused on a `NIORedisConnection` type that works explicitly in a SwiftNIO `EventLoop` context - with
+return values all being `EventLoopFuture`.
+
+```swift
+import NIORedis
+
+let elg = MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup(numberOfThreads: 1)
+let redis = NIORedis(executionModel: .eventLoopGroup(elg))
+
+// connections
+
+// passing a value to `password` will automatically authenticate with Redis before resolving the connection
+let connection = try redis.makeConnection(
+    hostname: "localhost", // this is the default
+    port: 6379, // this is the default
+    password: "MY_PASS" // default is `nil`
+).wait()
+print(connection) // NIORedisConnection
+
+// convienence methods for commands
+
+let result = try connection.set("my_key", to: "some value")
+    .then {
+        return connection.get("my_key")
+    }.wait()
+print(result) // Optional("some value")
+
+// raw commands
+
+let keyCount = try connection.command("DEL", [RedisData(bulk: "my_key")])
+    .thenThrowing { res in
+        guard case let .integer(count) else {
+            // throw Error
+        }
+        return count
+    }.wait()
+print(keyCount) // 1
+
+// cleanup 
+
+connection.close()
+try redis.terminate()
+try elg.syncShutdownGracefully()
+```
+
+### RedisData & RedisDataConvertible
+This is a 1:1 mapping enum of the `RESP` types: `Simple String`, `Bulk String`, `Array`, `Integer` and `Error`.
+
+Conforming to `RedisDataConvertible` allows Swift types to more easily convert between `RedisData` and native types.
+
+`Array`, `Data`, `Float`, `Double`, `FixedWidthInteger`, `String`, and of course `RedisData` all conform in this package.
+
+A `ByteToMessageDecoder` and `MessageToByteEncoder` are used for the conversion process on connections.
+
+### NIORedisConnection
+This class uses a `ChannelInboundHandler` that handles the actual process of sending and receiving commands.
+
+While it does handle a "pipeline" queue of messages, so as to not be blocking, it is _not_ the same as [Redis' Pipelining](https://redis.io/topics/pipelining).
+
+That is a feature for future development.
+
+## Redis
+
+To support contexts where someone either doesn't want to work in a SwiftNIO context, the `Redis` module provides a callback-based interface
+that wraps all of `NIORedis`.
+
+A `Redis` instance manages a `NIORedis` object under the hood, with `RedisConnection` doing the same for `NIORedisConnection`.
+
+```swift
+import Redis
+
+let redis = Redis(threadCount: 1) // default is 1
+
+// connections
+
+// passing a value to `password` will automatically authenticate with Redis before resolving the connection
+redis.makeConnection(
+    hostname: "localhost", // this is the default
+    port: 6379, // this is the default
+    password: "MY_PASS", // default is `nil`
+    queue: DispatchQueue(label: "com.MyPackage.redis") // default is `.main`
+) { result in
+    switch result {
+    case .success(let conn):
+        showCommands(on: conn)
+    case .failure(let error):
+        fatalError("Could not create RedisConnection!")
+    }
+}
+
+// convienence methods for commands
+
+func showCommands(on conn: RedisConnection) {
+    conn.get("my_key") { result in
+        switch result {
+        case .success(let value):
+            // use value, which is String?
+        case .failure(let error):
+            // do something on error
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// cleanup is handled by deinit blocks
+```