RedisSharp

RedisSharp is a C# library to use redis database not only as a cach database, and also it makes it easier to work with redis value types(sets ,sortedsset etc), RedisSharp uses StackExchange.Redis and StackExchange.Redis.Extensions , so all data TTLs are set to -1 unless you use stackexchange APIs itself to change them(which is possible from RedisSharp)

benefits:

1. access the same benefits from stackexchange or stackexchange.extentions
2. save your data in sorted sets or sorts or string types
3. get the last saved items as the first retreiving items in sortedLists (like using in feeds meaning the first items you get are the recent saved items) 4.index your string type objects

#How it works install from nuget

Install-Package RedisSharp

add these lines to your web or app.config

  <configSections>
    <section name="redisCacheClient" type="StackExchange.Redis.Extensions.Core.Configuration.RedisCachingSectionHandler, StackExchange.Redis.Extensions.Core"/>
  </configSections>
  <redisCacheClient allowAdmin="true" ssl="false" connectTimeout="5000">
        <hosts>
             <add host="127.0.0.1" cachePort="6379"/>
        </hosts>
  </redisCacheClient>

your models should inherit from IRedis which is:

public interface IRedis
{
    double RedisScore { get; set; }
    RedisEntityType RedisEntityType { get; set; }
    string RedisKey { get; set; }
    string MakeRedisKey(string param1, string param2 = null, string param3 = null);
}

just use IRedis intefrace and determine how you make your redisKey and your data type the RedisEntityType is set to string by default (string is an boject converted to json) and you can change it to sortedset ,if so RedisScore is sautomatically set when you save the your object .

1.here the redis type is sortedList

public class Employee:IRedis
{
    public string Name { get; set; }    
    public string PhoneNumber { get; set; }
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public double RedisScore { get; set; }
    public RedisEntityType RedisEntityType { get; set; }=RedisEntityType.SortedList;
    public string RedisKey { get; set; }
    public string MakeRedisKey(string param1, string param2 = null, string param3 = null)
    {
        return "Employees";
    }
 }

create an DatabaseHelper object and start using Redis if you wanted to uset StackExchange just call DatabseHelper.StackExchangeRedisCacheClient

use this command to save an obj

var savedData = new DatabaseHelper.Save<Employee>( new Employee() { Name = "John Joe", Id =i });

2.strings types : a string type object is converted to a json string and will be deserialized from string to your c# class type thanx to newtonsoft and stackexchange.extention

this is another sample for string types

  class Employee_StringType:IRedis
 {
    public static string partitionKey = "our_empoyees";

    public Employee_StringType(string name)
    {
        Name = name;
        CreatedDateTime=DateTime.Now;
        RedisKey = MakeRedisKey(name);
    }
    public Employee_StringType()
    {   
    }
    public DateTime CreatedDateTime { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public double RedisScore { get; set; }
    public RedisEntityType RedisEntityType { get; set; }=RedisEntityType.String;
    public string RedisKey { get; set; }
    public string MakeRedisKey(string param1, string param2 = null, string param3 = null)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(param2))
            return param1 +":"+ param2;
        return partitionKey + ":" +param1;
    }
 }

#loading data you can load data with 'Query' and 'Load' methods to load an item or bunch of items

#indexing this is diffrent with indexing , its just a way to index your rediskeys of string types models in a sorted set so you can retireive them in sorted by order they are listed , meaning the first items you get are the recent saved items you can index your keys in a sorted set with RedisIndexes class , so no need to create another model , but consider that the index key would be 'Index:*'

   for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++)
            {
                var obj=  DatabaseHelper.Save<Employee_StringType>(new Employee_StringType("Jack " + i * 5));
        DatabaseHelper.Save<RedisIndexes(RedisIndexes.CreateNewIntance(redisIndexPartitionKey,obj.RedisKey),redisIndexPartitionKey);
            }

and you can retrieve items from indexes

     var result=new List<Employee_StringType>();
        var indexedItems = DatabaseHelper.Query<RedisIndexes>(redisIndexPartitionKey);
        foreach (var index in indexedItems)
        {
            result.Add(DatabaseHelper.Load<Employee_StringType>(index.Value));
        }

check tests for more info