Deprecate the "auto_close_connection_pool" argument to Redis() and Redis.from_url()

Author: kristjanvalur

redis/asyncio/client.py

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def from_url(
         cls,
         url: str,
         single_connection_client: bool = False,
-        auto_close_connection_pool: bool = True,
+        auto_close_connection_pool: Optional[bool] = None,
         **kwargs,
     ):
         """
@@ -164,12 +164,17 @@ class initializer. In the case of conflicting arguments, querystring
             connection_pool=connection_pool,
             single_connection_client=single_connection_client,
         )
-        # We should probably deprecate the `auto_close_connection_pool`
-        # argument.
-        # If the caller doesn't want the pool auto-closed, a better
-        # pattern is to create the pool manually (maybe using from_url()),
-        # pass it in using the `connection_pool`, and hold on to it to close
-        # it later.
+        if auto_close_connection_pool is not None:
+            warnings.warn(
+                DeprecationWarning(
+                    "'auto_close_connection_pool' is deprecated "
+                    "since version 5.0.0. "
+                    "Please create a ConnectionPool explicitly and "
+                    "provide to the Redis() constructor instead."
+                )
+            )
+        else:
+            auto_close_connection_pool = True
         client.auto_close_connection_pool = auto_close_connection_pool
         return client
 
@@ -223,7 +228,7 @@ def __init__(
         username: Optional[str] = None,
         retry: Optional[Retry] = None,
         # deprecated. create a pool and use connection_pool instead
-        auto_close_connection_pool: bool = True,
+        auto_close_connection_pool: Optional[bool] = None,
         redis_connect_func=None,
         credential_provider: Optional[CredentialProvider] = None,
         protocol: Optional[int] = 2,
@@ -237,6 +242,18 @@ def __init__(
         """
         kwargs: Dict[str, Any]
 
+        if auto_close_connection_pool is not None:
+            warnings.warn(
+                DeprecationWarning(
+                    "'auto_close_connection_pool' is deprecated "
+                    "since version 5.0.0. "
+                    "Please create a ConnectionPool explicitly and "
+                    "provide to the Redis() constructor instead."
+                )
+            )
+        else:
+            auto_close_connection_pool = True
+
         if not connection_pool:
             # Create internal connection pool, expected to be closed by Redis instance
             if not retry_on_error:

tests/test_asyncio/test_connection.py

@@ -305,15 +305,24 @@ async def get_redis_connection():
     await r1.close()
 
 
+async def test_pool_from_url_deprecation(request):
+    url: str = request.config.getoption("--redis-url")
+    url_args = parse_url(url)
+
+    with pytest.deprecated_call():
+        return Redis.from_url(url, auto_close_connection_pool=False)
+
+
 async def test_pool_auto_close_disable(request):
-    """Verify that auto_close_connection_pool can be disabled"""
+    """Verify that auto_close_connection_pool can be disabled (deprecated)"""
 
     url: str = request.config.getoption("--redis-url")
     url_args = parse_url(url)
 
     async def get_redis_connection():
         url_args["auto_close_connection_pool"] = False
-        return Redis(**url_args)
+        with pytest.deprecated_call():
+            return Redis(**url_args)
 
     r1 = await get_redis_connection()
     assert r1.auto_close_connection_pool is False
@@ -394,7 +403,8 @@ async def test_redis_pool_auto_close_arg(request, auto_close):
     pool = ConnectionPool.from_url(url)
 
     async def get_redis_connection():
-        client = Redis(connection_pool=pool, auto_close_connection_pool=auto_close)
+        with pytest.deprecated_call():
+            client = Redis(connection_pool=pool, auto_close_connection_pool=auto_close)
         return client
 
     called = 0