Why does DJANGO_REDIS_CONNECTION_FACTORY need to be a global django setting ?

[vedantpuri]

Context

We use django-redis for our project and I am in a situation where I need to make only one of my caches sentineled.
Ideally the others should also be converted but due to time constraints and other reasoning based on usage we want to convert only one for now.

Question

When trying to change this I noticed that this setting is global, which means that all my caches need to be sentineled for this to work. I am not exactly sure why this is global and/or if this could be moved into OPTIONS per cache to provide more flexibility.

[WisdomPill]

Hello @vedantpuri,

I see your issue, I think it's a valid point so we should have a pool per cache entry in settings... would you like to create a PR for this?

It should be quite simple, just pass CONNECTION_FACTORY from options and feed it to pool.get_connection_factory(options=self._options) here as path and the trick is done.

If you do it yourself I would be glad to review and release a new version pretty quickly.

Otherwise I can't promise I can do it reasonably fast as I don't have much time to dedicate to open source lately

[vedantpuri]

Sure! Here is a proposal:
#620

[RealFatCat]

@WisdomPill hi, can you look at #680 please?

[RealFatCat]

@WisdomPill can we get a release with this feature?

[WisdomPill]

I released it yesterday, thanks @RealFatCat for the PR! 😄