Migrating from django-redis to Django 4 new redis back-end

[Benedikt Vogler]

Hi!

I wanted to migrate from django-redis to the new built-in Redis caching back-end.

Previously I could access the existing connection with django_redis.get_redis_connection to get a redis-py client.

For example, explained here.

Is there something similar to obtain a redis-py object from the caching setting in Django?

from django.core.cache import caches

caches["default"] returns a RedisCache object.

Or is the solution to stick to django-redis?

Kind regards,

Benedikt Vogler