How to store and retrieve a dictionary with redis

Question

# I have the dictionary my_dict
my_dict = {
    \'var1\' : 5
    \'var2\' : 9
}
r = redis.StrictRedis()

How would I store my_dict and retrieve it w

Answer 1

you can pickle your dict and save as string.

import pickle
import redis

r = redis.StrictRedis('localhost')
mydict = {1:2,2:3,3:4}
p_mydict = pickle.dumps(mydict)
r.set('mydict',p_mydict)

read_dict = r.get('mydict')
yourdict = pickle.loads(read_dict)

Answer 2

You can do it by hmset (multiple keys can be set using hmset).

hmset("RedisKey", dictionaryToSet)

import redis
conn = redis.Redis('localhost')

user = {"Name":"Pradeep", "Company":"SCTL", "Address":"Mumbai", "Location":"RCP"}

conn.hmset("pythonDict", user)

conn.hgetall("pythonDict")

{'Company': 'SCTL', 'Address': 'Mumbai', 'Location': 'RCP', 'Name': 'Pradeep'}

Answer 3

The redis SET command stores a string, not arbitrary data. You could try using the redis HSET command to store the dict as a redis hash with something like

for k,v in my_dict.iteritems():
    r.hset('my_dict', k, v)

but the redis datatypes and python datatypes don't quite line up. Python dicts can be arbitrarily nested, but a redis hash is going to require that your value is a string. Another approach you can take is to convert your python data to string and store that in redis, something like

r.set('this_dict', str(my_dict))

and then when you get the string out you will need to parse it to recreate the python object.

Answer 4

If you want to store a python dict in redis, it is better to store it as json string.

import redis

r = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
mydict = { 'var1' : 5, 'var2' : 9, 'var3': [1, 5, 9] }
rval = json.dumps(mydict)
r.set('key1', rval)

While retrieving de-serialize it using json.loads

data = r.get('key1')
result = json.loads(data)
arr = result['var3']

What about types (eg.bytes) that are not serialized by json functions ?

You can write encoder/decoder functions for types that cannot be serialized by json functions. eg. writing base64/ascii encoder/decoder function for byte array.

Answer 5

HMSET is deprecated. You can now use HSET with a dictionary as follows:

import redis
r = redis.Redis('localhost')

key = "hashexample" 
queue_entry = { 
    "version":"1.2.3", 
    "tag":"main", 
    "status":"CREATED",  
    "timeout":"30"
    }
r.hset(key,None,None,queue_entry)

Answer 6

Another way: you can use RedisWorks library.

pip install redisworks

>>> from redisworks import Root
>>> root = Root()
>>> root.something = {1:"a", "b": {2: 2}}  # saves it as Hash type in Redis
...
>>> print(root.something)  # loads it from Redis
{'b': {2: 2}, 1: 'a'}
>>> root.something['b'][2]
2

It converts python types to Redis types and vice-versa.

>>> root.sides = [10, [1, 2]]  # saves it as list in Redis.
>>> print(root.sides)  # loads it from Redis
[10, [1, 2]]
>>> type(root.sides[1])
<class 'list'>

Disclaimer: I wrote the library. Here is the code: https://github.com/seperman/redisworks