Add disable_resubscribingg option. Fixes #472

README.md

@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ That way the default is to try reconnecting until 24h passed.
 limits total amount of connection tries. Setting this to 1 will prevent any reconnect tries.
 * `auth_pass` *null*; If set, client will run redis auth command on connect.
 * `family` *IPv4*; You can force using IPv6 if you set the family to 'IPv6'. See Node.js [net](https://nodejs.org/api/net.html) or [dns](https://nodejs.org/api/dns.html) modules how to use the family type.
+* `disable_resubscribing`: *false*; If set to `true`, a client won't resubscribe after disconnecting
 
 ```js
 var redis = require("redis"),

changelog.md

@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+## v.2.x.x - xx, 2015
+
+Features
+
+-  Added disable_resubscribing option to prevent a client from resubscribing after reconnecting (@BridgeAR)
+
+Bugfixes
+
+-
+
 ## v2.1.0 - Oct 02, 2015
 
 Features:
@@ -14,7 +24,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 -  Fix argument mutation while using the array notation with the multi constructor (@BridgeAR)
 -  Fix multi.hmset key not being type converted if used with an object and key not being a string (@BridgeAR)
 -  Fix parser errors not being catched properly (@BridgeAR)
--  Fix a crash that could occur if a redis server does return the info command as usual #541 (@BridgeAR)
+-  Fix a crash that could occur if a redis server does not return the info command as usual #541 (@BridgeAR)
 -  Explicitly passing undefined as a callback statement will work again. E.g. client.publish('channel', 'message', undefined); (@BridgeAR)
 
 ## v2.0.1 - Sep 24, 2015
@@ -27,7 +37,7 @@ Bugfixes:
 
 This is the biggest release that node_redis had since it was released in 2010. A long list of outstanding bugs has been fixed, so we are very happy to present you redis 2.0 and we highly recommend updating as soon as possible.
 
-#What's new in 2.0
+# What's new in 2.0
 
 - Implemented a "connection is broken" mode if no connection could be established
 - node_redis no longer throws under any circumstances, preventing it from terminating applications.

index.js

@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ RedisClient.prototype.on_ready = function () {
                 self.emit("ready");
             }
         };
+        if (this.options.disable_resubscribing) {
+            return;
+        }
         Object.keys(this.subscription_set).forEach(function (key) {
             var space_index = key.indexOf(" ");
             var parts = [key.slice(0, space_index), key.slice(space_index + 1)];

test/pubsub.spec.js

@@ -26,20 +26,67 @@ describe("publish/subscribe", function () {
                 pub.once("connect", function () {
                     pub.flushdb(function () {
                         pubConnected = true;
+                        if (subConnected) {
+                            done();
+                        }
                     });
                 });
 
                 sub.once("error", done);
                 sub.once("connect", function () {
                     subConnected = true;
+                    if (pubConnected) {
+                        done();
+                    }
+                });
+            });
+
+            describe('disable resubscribe', function () {
+                beforeEach(function (done) {
+                    var pubConnected;
+                    var subConnected;
+
+                    pub = redis.createClient();
+                    sub = redis.createClient({
+                        disable_resubscribing: false
+                    });
+                    pub.once("error", done);
+                    pub.once("connect", function () {
+                        pubConnected = true;
+                        if (subConnected) {
+                            done();
+                        }
+                    });
+
+                    sub.once("error", done);
+                    sub.once("connect", function () {
+                        subConnected = true;
+                        if (pubConnected) {
+                            done();
+                        }
+                    });
                 });
 
-                var id = setInterval(function () {
+                it('does not fire subscribe events after reconnecting', function (done) {
-                    if (pubConnected && subConnected) {
+                    var a = false;
-                      clearInterval(id);
+                    sub.on("subscribe", function (chnl, count) {
-                      return done();
+                        if (chnl === channel2) {
-                    }
+                            if (a) {
-                }, 50);
+                                return done(new Error('Test failed'));
+                            }
+                            assert.equal(2, count);
+                            sub.stream.destroy();
+                        }
+                    });
+
+                    sub.on('reconnecting', function() {
+                        a = true;
+                    });
+
+                    sub.subscribe(channel, channel2);
+
+                    setTimeout(done, 250);
+                });
             });
 
             describe('subscribe', function () {