redis-stream

Create readable/writeable/pipeable api compatible streams from redis commands.

Example

In the example directory there are various ways to use redis-stream -- such as creating a stream from the redis monitor command.

var Redis = require('redis-stream')
  , client = new Redis(6379, 'localhost')

require('http')
.createServer(function (request, response) {
  var redis = client.stream()
  redis.pipe(Redis.es.join('\r\n')).pipe(response)
  redis.write('monitor')
})
.listen(3000)

Methods

var Redis = require('redis-stream')
  , client = new Redis(6379, localhost, 0)

new Redis([port] [, host] [, database])

Return an object that streams can be created from with the port, host, and database options.

• port defaults to 6379
• host defaults to localhsot
• database defaults to 0

client.stream([arg1] [, arg2] [, argn])

Return an instance of stream. All calls to write on this stream will be prepended with the optional arguments passed to client.stream()

Create a streaming instance of rpop:

var rpop = client.stream('rpop')
rpop.pipe(process.stdout)
rpop.write('my-list-key')

Or lpush:

var lpush = client.stream('lpush', 'my-list-key')
lpush.pipe(process.stdout)
lpush.write('my-value')

Which you can then pipe redis keys to, and the resulting elements will be piped to stdout.

Check the examples directory for more. However, any redis command can be issued with the same arguments as the command line interface.

Other methods

Redis.parse.hgetall()

Return a special intermediary stream that can be used to transform an hmget or hgetall stream into a json object with a little help from JSONStream.

  hgetall = client.stream('hgetall')
  hgetall
    .pipe(Redis.parse.hgetall())
    .pipe(JSONStream.stringifyObject())
    .pipe(process.stdout)

  hgetall.write('my-hash-key-1')

Redis.parse(array)

It's possible to interact directly with the command parser that transforms a stream into valid redis data stream

var Redis = require('redis-stream')
  , redis = new Redis(6379, 'localhost')
  , stream = redis.stream()

stream.pipe(Redis.es.join('\r\n')).pipe(process.stdout)

// interact with the redis network connection directly
// using `Redis.parse`, which is used internally
stream.redis.write(Redis.parse([ 'info' ]))
stream.redis.write(Redis.parse([ 'lpush', 'mylist', 'val' ]))
stream.end()

Install

npm install redis-stream

Tests

npm install -g tap && npm test

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Thomas Blobaum tblobaum@gmail.com

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