An asynchronous Redis client for Rust.
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# Documentation
[Official Documentation](https://docs.rs/rustis/latest/rustis/)
# Philosophy
* Low allocations
* Full async library
* Lock free implementation
* Rust idiomatic API
* Multiplexing as a core feature
# Features
* Full documentation with multiple examples
* Support all documented [Redis Commands](https://redis.io/commands/) up to and including Redis 8.8
* Async support ([tokio](https://tokio.rs/))
* Different client modes:
* Single client
* [Multiplexed](https://redis.com/blog/multiplexing-explained/) client
* Pooled client manager (based on [bb8](https://docs.rs/bb8/latest/bb8/))
* Automatic command batching
* Advanced reconnection & retry strategy
* [Pipelining](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/using-commands/pipelining/) support
* Configuration with Redis URL or dedicated builder
* [TLS](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/security/encryption/) support
* [Transaction](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/using-commands/transactions/) support
* [Pub/sub](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/pubsub/) support
* [Sentinel](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/sentinel/) support
* [LUA Scripts/Functions](hhttps://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/programmability/) support
* [Cluster](https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/management/scaling/) support (minimus supported Redis version is 6)
* [Client-side caching](https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/reference/client-side-caching/) support
# Protocol Compatibility
Rustis uses the RESP3 protocol **exclusively**.
The `HELLO 3` command is automatically sent when establishing a connection.
Therefore, your Redis server **must support RESP3** (Redis ≥6.0+ with RESP3 enabled).
If you use Redis 5 or older, or your Redis 6+ server still defaults to RESP2,
**Rustis will not work.**
To verify your server supports RESP3:
```bash
redis-cli --raw HELLO 3
```
If you see server info (role, version, etc.), you're good to go.
If you get an error, upgrade Redis.
# Observability
Rustis emits [`tracing`](https://docs.rs/tracing) events and spans. Install any
subscriber to see them:
```rust,ignore
tracing_subscriber::fmt().with_max_level(tracing::Level::DEBUG).init();
```
Every event from the network task is wrapped in a `connection` span carrying a
`tag` field — `host:port`, or `name:host:port` when `connection_name` is set — so
output from several clients stays attributable without any per-message prefix.
Reconnections open a nested `reconnect` span, which groups the in-flight purge,
the retries and the subscription replay into one identifiable unit. In cluster
mode, events about a specific node carry a `node` field.
**If you use `log` rather than `tracing`, you need to change nothing.** Rustis
enables tracing's `log` feature, so every event also emits a `log` record and
existing `env_logger`-style setups keep working unchanged.
Levels follow the usual convention: `error` and `warn` for conditions that need
attention, `info` for connection lifecycle, `debug` for per-command traffic, and
`trace` for the message-queue internals.
# Minimum Supported Rust Version
**Rust 1.88**, declared as `rust-version` in `Cargo.toml` and verified by a CI
job that compiles both runtimes with exactly that toolchain. Let chains hold the
floor there; edition 2024 on its own would allow 1.85.
Raising it is treated as a breaking change and is announced in `CHANGELOG.md`.
# Safety
Rustis is `#![forbid(unsafe_code)]`, and that is a deliberate position rather
than an accident of never having needed unsafe.
It costs less here than it would elsewhere. RESP is length-delimited, so the
parser reads a header and skips the announced number of bytes instead of
searching for delimiters — which leaves little for the usual payoff of unsafe in
a parser, SIMD structural scanning, to find. Hardware CRC16 for cluster slots is
the other candidate, and standalone clients skip slot computation entirely.
What it buys is that a malformed or hostile reply can never become a
memory-safety bug. The real hostile-input surface is then panics and unbounded
allocation, and both are addressed directly:
* The explicit-panic lint family (`unwrap_used`, `expect_used`, `panic`,
`unreachable`, `todo`, `unimplemented`) is `deny` crate-wide, and
`clippy::indexing_slicing` is `deny` in `resp/` and `network/` — the two zones
where a panic is fatal rather than merely wrong. Surviving sites carry an
`#[allow(…, reason = "…")]` naming the invariant that makes them unreachable.
* Frame size, nesting depth and element counts are bounded and configurable
(`Config::limits`), so a crafted reply cannot drive an unbounded allocation or
a stack overflow.
* Four `cargo-fuzz` targets exercise the frame parser, both deserializers, and
the chunked decode path.
# Basic Usage
```rust
use rustis::{
client::Client,
commands::{FlushingMode, ServerCommands, StringCommands},
Result,
};
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
// Connect the client to a Redis server from its IP and port
let client = Client::connect("127.0.0.1:6379").await?;
// Flush all existing data in Redis
client.flushdb(FlushingMode::Sync).await?;
// sends the command SET to Redis. This command is defined in the StringCommands trait
client.set("key", "value").await?;
// sends the command GET to Redis. This command is defined in the StringCommands trait
let value: String = client.get("key").await?;
println!("value: {value:?}");
Ok(())
}
```
# Tests
1. From the `redis` directory, run `docker_up.sh` or `docker_up.cmd`
2. run `./run_tests.sh`
3. run `cargo fmt --all -- --check`
The test suite **requires `--test-threads=1`**: tests share a single Redis instance
and flush the database, so running them in parallel produces spurious failures.
That is the only thing `run_tests.sh` does beyond selecting the features —
`cargo test --features tokio-rustls,pool,json,client-cache -- --test-threads=1`.
Extra arguments are forwarded, so `./run_tests.sh string` filters by name.
# Benchmarks
1. From the `redis` directory, run `docker_up.sh` or `docker_up.cmd`
2. run `cargo bench`