This is a light-weight replace function, useful for use cases such as
realloc()ing an existing value, etc. Using RM_ModuleTypeSetValue() in
such cases is wasteful and complex as it attempts to delete the old
value, call its destructor, etc.
Calling XADD with 0-0 or 0 would result in creating an
empty key and storing it in the database.
Even worse, because XADD will reply with error the action
will not be replicated, creating a master-replica
inconsistency
- Adding RM_ScanKey
- Adding tests for RM_ScanKey
- Refactoring RM_Scan API
Changes in RM_Scan
- cleanup in docs and coding convention
- Moving out of experimantal Api
- Adding ctx to scan callback
- Dont use cursor of -1 as an indication of done (can be a valid cursor)
- Set errno when returning 0 for various reasons
- Rename Cursor to ScanCursor
- Test filters key that are not strings, and opens a key if NULL
The implementation expose the following new functions:
1. RedisModule_CursorCreate - allow to create a new cursor object for
keys scanning
2. RedisModule_CursorRestart - restart an existing cursor to restart the
scan
3. RedisModule_CursorDestroy - destroy an existing cursor
4. RedisModule_Scan - scan keys
The RedisModule_Scan function gets a cursor object, a callback and void*
(used as user private data).
The callback will be called for each key in the database proving the key
name and the value as RedisModuleKey.
recently added more reads into that function, if a later read fails, i must
either free what's already allocated, or return the pointer so that the free
callback will release it.
One problem with the solution proposed so far in #6537 is that key
lookups outside a command execution via call(), still used a cached
time. The cached time needed to be refreshed in multiple places,
especially because of modules callbacks from timers, cluster bus, and
thread safe contexts, that may use RM_Open().
In order to avoid this problem, this commit introduces the ability to
detect if we are inside call(): this way we can use the reference fixed
time only when we are in the context of a command execution or Lua
script, but for the asynchronous lookups, we can still use mstime() to
get a fresh time reference.
After the thread in #6537 and thanks to the suggestions received, this
commit updates the original patch in order to:
1. Solve the problem of updating the time in multiple places by updating
it in call().
2. Avoid introducing a new field but use our cached time.
This required some minor refactoring to the function updating the time,
and the introduction of a new cached time in microseconds in order to
use less gettimeofday() calls.
Calling lookupKey*() many times to search a key in one command
may get different result.
That's because lookupKey*() calls expireIfNeeded(), and delete
the key when reach the expire time. So we can get an robj before
the expire time, but a NULL after the expire time.
The worst is that may lead to Redis crash, for example
`RPOPLPUSH foo foo` the first time we get a list form `foo` and
hold the pointer, but when we get `foo` again it's expired and
deleted. Now we hold a freed memory, when execute rpoplpushHandlePush()
redis crash.
To fix it, we can refactor the judgment about whether a key is expired,
using the same basetime `server.cmd_start_mstime` instead of calling
mstime() everytime.
Add two new functions that leverage the RedisModuleDataType mechanism
for RDB serialization/deserialization and make it possible to use it
to/from arbitrary strings:
* RM_SaveDataTypeToString()
* RM_LoadDataTypeFromString()
