Is this a valid usage of ServiceStack Redis?

Question

I am new to Redis (using it at a hosted service) and want to use it as a demonstration / sandbox data storage for lists.

I use the following piece of code. It works

Answer 1

Actually when you use PersonClient.Lists["urn:names:current"] you're actually storing a reference to a RedisClient Connection which is not thread safe. It's ok if it's in a GUI or Console app, but not ideal in a multi-threaded web app. In most scenarios you want to be using a thread safe connection factory i.e.

var redisManager = new PooledRedisClientManager("localhost:6379");

Which acts very much like a database connection pool. So whenever you want to access the RedisClient works like:

using (var redis = redisManager.GetClient())
{
    var allItems = redis.As<Person>().Lists["urn:names:current"].GetAll();
}

Note: .As<T> is a shorter alias for .GetTypedClient<T> Another convenient short-cut to execute a typed client from a redisManager is:

var allItems = redisManager.ExecAs<Person>(r => r.Lists["urn:names:current"].GetAll());

I usually prefer to pass around IRedisClientsManager in my code so it doesn't hold a RedisClient connection but can access it whenever it needs to.

Answer 2

There is an example project here