Description
Currently, RedisOperations#convertAndSend
is void
event though the underlying RedisPubSubCommands#publish
returns a Long
that represents the number of subscribers receiving the published message (see https://redis.io/commands/publish).
The information about the number of subscribers can be useful in some scenarios, and is also returned by the reactive counterpart in ReactiveRedisOperations#convertAndSend
.
Digging through the history of RedisOperations
, it seems that #convertAndSend
used to return Long
for a brief period of time in 2013: it was introduced in b35f6a3 and reverted in d46bee7.
I understand that adding return value would be a breaking change, but the impact doesn't seem to be too big (?). I'm willing to submit a PR to address this, if the change is welcome.