kevy-client

A URL-driven, blocking RESP client for kevy. The same code switches between an in-process backend and a remote TCP server by changing one URL string.

• Pure Rust, zero crates.io runtime dependencies.
• Backends: in-process (anonymous, named, or persistent), kevy server, any Redis-protocol server.
• All five Redis data types, transactions with WATCH, scan iteration, and pub/sub with a borrowing iterator.

use kevy_client::Connection;

let mut conn = Connection::open("tcp://127.0.0.1:6379")?;
conn.set(b"hello", b"world")?;
assert_eq!(conn.get(b"hello")?, Some(b"world".to_vec()));
# Ok::<(), std::io::Error>(())

Install

cargo add kevy-client

URL backends

redis://user:pass@host (AUTH) and rediss:// (TLS) are rejected up front — kevy ships without either. Front it with a TLS-terminating sidecar and an authentication proxy if you need them.

Quick start

Same code, two backends

use kevy_client::Connection;

fn cache_smoke(c: &mut Connection) -> std::io::Result<()> {
    c.set(b"hot", b"cached")?;
    assert_eq!(c.get(b"hot")?, Some(b"cached".to_vec()));
    Ok(())
}

let url = std::env::var("KEVY_URL")
    .unwrap_or_else(|_| "mem://app".into());
cache_smoke(&mut Connection::open(&url)?)?;
# Ok::<(), std::io::Error>(())

Set KEVY_URL=mem://app for dev, KEVY_URL=kevy://prod:6379 for production. No code change.

Transactions

use kevy_client::Connection;

# fn run() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let mut conn = Connection::open("tcp://127.0.0.1:6379")?;

let mut txn = conn.multi()?;
txn.set(b"a", b"1")?
    .incr(b"counter")?
    .get(b"a")?;
let mut r = txn.exec_typed()?;
r.next_ok()?;                                 // SET → +OK
let counter: i64 = r.next_int()?;             // INCR → :N
let prior: Option<Vec<u8>> = r.next_bulk()?;  // GET  → $... or nil
r.expect_empty()?;                            // arity check
# Ok(())
# }

For optimistic concurrency, watch a key before the transaction:

use kevy_client::Connection;

# fn run() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let mut conn = Connection::open("tcp://127.0.0.1:6379")?;

conn.watch(&[&b"counter"[..]])?;
let mut txn = conn.multi()?;
txn.incr(b"counter")?;
match txn.exec_watched()? {
    Some(replies) => { /* committed */ }
    None         => { /* watched key changed — retry the whole block */ }
}
# Ok(())
# }

Transactions on the in-process backends return ErrorKind::Unsupported — every Connection method already serialises on the embed mutex, so MULTI's locking guarantee is a no-op in-process.

Pub/sub

use kevy_client::{Connection, Subscriber, PubsubEvent};

# fn run() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let url = std::env::var("KEVY_URL")
    .unwrap_or_else(|_| "mem://news".into());

let mut sub = Subscriber::open(&url, &[&b"updates"[..]])?;
let mut pubconn = Connection::open(&url)?;

let _ack = sub.recv()?;                       // drain the SUBSCRIBE ack
pubconn.publish(b"updates", b"hello")?;

for event in sub.messages().take(1) {
    let (channel, payload) = event?;
    println!("{}: {}",
        String::from_utf8_lossy(&channel),
        String::from_utf8_lossy(&payload));
}
# Ok(())
# }

Pattern subscriptions use psubscribe(&[&b"news.*"[..]]).

Subscriber::messages() and Subscriber::events() are borrowing iterators. The messages() form auto-skips the (p)?(un)?subscribe ack frames and yields (channel, payload) tuples directly. Both iterators terminate on UnexpectedEof; transient errors surface as Some(Err(_)) so callers decide whether to keep going.

Anonymous mem:// (no name) is rejected by Subscriber::open — no other producer can reach it. Use mem://<some-name> for a shared bus.

Cluster-aware routing

ClusterClient discovers the topology of a cluster-mode kevy server and routes each key straight to the owning shard, eliminating the cross-shard forwarding hop:

use kevy_client::ClusterClient;

let mut cc = ClusterClient::connect("127.0.0.1", 6380)?;  // any shard port as seed
cc.set(b"user:42", b"alice")?;                             // routed by CRC16
let v = cc.get(b"user:42")?;
let removed = cc.del(&[&b"a"[..], &b"b"[..], &b"c"[..]])?; // multi-key may span shards
# Ok::<(), std::io::Error>(())

Full cluster-mode guide: docs/cluster.md.

Drop down to the raw backend

use kevy_client::Connection;

# fn handle(conn: &mut Connection) -> std::io::Result<()> {
match conn {
    Connection::Embedded(s) => {
        // call any kevy_embedded::Store method
    }
    Connection::Remote(c)   => {
        // call c.request(&[...]) directly
    }
}
# Ok(())
# }

API surface

Connection / generic: ping, dbsize, flush, type_of, exists, del, expire, persist, ttl_ms.

Strings: set, set_with_ttl, get, incr, incr_by.

Hashes: hset, hget, hdel, hlen, hgetall, hkeys, hvals.

Lists: lpush, rpush, lpop, rpop, llen, lrange.

Sets: sadd, srem, smembers, scard, sismember.

Sorted sets: zadd, zrem, zscore, zcard, zrange.

Multi-key: mget, mset, sinter, sunion, sdiff.

Keyspace iteration: keys(pattern), scan(cursor, pattern, count), randomkey. In-process backends finish in one round (any non-zero cursor returns empty); the remote backend honours the server's real cursor.

Transactions (remote only): Connection::multi returns a Transaction. Queue commands via the typed builders (set, get, del, exists, incr, incr_by, mget, mset), commit with exec, exec_typed, exec_watched, or exec_watched_typed. The typed cursor (exec_typed) hands back a TransactionReplies with next_ok / next_int / next_bulk / next_array_of_bulks / expect_empty.

Pub/sub: Connection::publish for the producer side; Subscriber for the consumer side, with recv, recv_message, subscribe, unsubscribe, psubscribe, punsubscribe, and the messages() / events() iterators.

Cluster routing: ClusterClient::connect discovers topology and routes by CRC16 slot.

Async mirror

For applications already running on tokio, smol, or async-std, use kevy-client-async — the API surface mirrors kevy-client exactly, with .await on every call.

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0, at your option.