What happens to old connection upon its update with no explicit close or shutdown

[Unniboy]

Lets say that during application boot up, I start a cluster connection

@Getter
private StatefulRedisClusterConnection<String, String> connection;

public void connectToRedis(String connectionInfo) {

    // Syntax: redis://[password@]host[:port]
    // Syntax: redis://[username:password@]host[:port]
    RedisClusterClient redisClient = RedisClusterClient.create(connectionInfo);

    connection = redisClient.connect();

    //connection is used across threads to do redis operations.......
}

Later at some point, I need to update the connection as the redis node has moved/changed.

• Can I simply invoke connectToRedis with new connectionInfo? If yes, what happens to the connection currently being used?
• Do I need to close/shutdown connection/redisClient respectively before using the new connectionInfo?

[mp911de]

What happens to old connection upon its update with no explicit close or shutdown

They remain open. Each time you call connect(), a new connection is opened.