iredismodule 0.3.0

A toolkit for building Redis modules in Rust
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iredismodule

This crate provides an idiomatic Rust API for the Redis Modules API. It allows writing Redis modules in Rust, without needing to use raw pointers or unsafe code.

Get started

use iredismodule_macros::rcmd;
use iredismodule::prelude::*; 

/// Define command
#[rcmd("simple.hello", "readonly", 0, 0, 0)] 
fn simple_hello(ctx: &mut Context, _args: Vec<RStr>) -> RResult {
    let db = ctx.get_select_db();
    Ok(db.into())
}

// Register module
define_module! {
    name: "simple",
    version: 1,
    data_types: [],
    init_funcs: [],
    commands: [
        simple_hello_cmd,
    ]
}

Running the example module

  1. Install Rust
  2. Install Redis, most likely using your favorite package manager (Homebrew on Mac, APT or YUM on Linux)
  3. Run cargo build --example helloworld
  4. Start a redis server with the helloworld module
    • Linux: redis-server --loadmodule ./target/debug/examples/helloworld.so
    • Mac: redis-server --loadmodule ./target/debug/examples/helloworld.dylib
  5. Open a Redis CLI, and run HELLO.SIMPLE.

Writing your own module

See the examples directory for some sample modules.

This crate tries to provide high-level wrappers around the standard Redis Modules API, while preserving the API's basic concepts. Therefore, following the Redis Modules API documentation will be mostly relevant here as well.