Marshal load fails silently

[xaviervia]

Hey! Really nice and useful gem here.

What I found is not actually a bug but I got stuck with this for a while, so here it comes.

I'm expanding a marshal serialization using Redis::List with the :marshal => true flag set, and I got a weird behavior: on some of my apps the objects were loaded correctly and in others I got just the raw string from the serialization.

After some debugging, I realized that Redis::List was rescuing the failed load attempt and falling back to the string serialization: while this behavior is reasonable, it can be quite confusing to debug.

It would be nice to have Redis::Object raising a custom Exception upon failure to load the marshal serialization.

Good luck

[nateware]

Appreciate the report. I looked into this quite a bit, and there's really no fix since redis-objects follows the recommended practice of rescue'ing marshal/dump failures with the raw data. Sorry this hit you.

[xaviervia]

I didn't knew about the recommended practiced. I switched to JSON since. Thanks for looking into it.

[carloslopes]

@xaviervia one way that i found to avoid these instable loads is to define a simplistic #marshal_dump and #marshal_load in your object