From 959589913350c7e190bb7e4a3f6fc22d8f411d93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JT Smith <jt@plainblack.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:47:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Updated the redis client to use dotenv to get the connection
 string.  * Updated the redis client to trap bad connection strings with an
 error message.

---
 ving/cache.mjs | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ving/cache.mjs b/ving/cache.mjs
index 14a7625b..ef3734c4 100644
--- a/ving/cache.mjs
+++ b/ving/cache.mjs
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import Keyv from 'keyv';
 import { ouch } from '#ving/utils/ouch.mjs';
+import 'dotenv/config';
+import '@keyv/redis';
+
 let cache = undefined;
 
 /**
@@ -11,8 +14,11 @@ export const useCache = () => {
         return cache
     }
     const globalForKeyv = global;
-
-    cache = globalForKeyv.keyv || new Keyv(process.env.VING_REDIS);
+    const redisUrl = process.env.VING_REDIS || '';
+    if (!redisUrl) {
+        throw new Error('VING_REDIS environment variable is not set');
+    }
+    cache = globalForKeyv.keyv || new Keyv(redisUrl);
 
     if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production')
         globalForKeyv.keyv = cache;