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Alexander Mills
Alexander Mills

Reputation: 100486

Redis pub/sub limit

Using Redis pub/sub, is there a way to limit the number of listeners that Redis will publish to?

http://redis.io/commands/publish

For example, using Node.js parlance:

var redis = require('redis');
var rcPub = redis.createClient();
var rcSub = redis.createClient();

rcPub.publish('channel','messageA',{limit:1}); //desired functionality/syntax

basically, when I send messageA to Redis, I want to tell Redis to publish the message to only one listener/subscriber. Seems possible, but can Redis do this?

In the Redis docs, the command is:

PUBLISH channel message

what I am looking for is:

PUBLISH channel message limit

where limit is an integer. Seems reasonable, and easy to implement from Redis' perspective.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1361

Answers (1)

Niloct
Niloct

Reputation: 10015

You can add a channel per subscribed, and then publish to a single user's channel when you need to communicate with him.

Upvotes: 2

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