Memcached Options

[rdegges]

In the API docs for memcached -- it shows in the sample that the connection string is specified as 127.0.0.1:11211. When I tried this, it works.

In the docs, however, it says that the connection variable can be a string or an object. When I try the following, I get errors:

connection: {
  host: '127.0.0.1',
  port: 11211,
}

I believe what we should do is ensure that all backends support an object for the connection variable, and ensure they all support the standard host / port options -- this way it makes integration a lot simpler.

[robertjd]

We do pass along the options directly, see:

https://github.com/stormpath/stormpath-sdk-node/blob/master/lib/cache/MemcachedStore.js#L20

The way you're trying to pass the connection, as an object with named keys, is not supported by the node-memcached module. See the object documentation here

All that said, I did find two things that should be changed:

• what we call a "connection" is called a "server location" in their module.
• Our docs show a default port of 11212 but the default is actually 11211

I'm removing the bug label

[lhazlewood]

@robertjd please create issues to fix the default port to 11211 so we don't lose this.

[lhazlewood]

Actually, nm, we can use this issue to reflect that work. Sorry for the noise!

[robertjd]

:) yep that was the idea

[robertjd]

In 0.6.0 the port documentation has been fixed and the connection value is now documented as "sever location"

Note: in code, the "sever location" value is still using a property called "connection"

I want to change that property to be called "severLocation", which will be a breaking change.

Adding 1.0 Label