A minimalist Flex/ActionScript Library that allows to interact with redis, an advanced key-value store. See http://redis.io/
The easiest way on your mac to get redis is using homebrew:
$ brew install redis
Check default redis configuration in /usr/local/etc/redis.conf
You can start redis with the redis-server command
$ redis-server
You can use the redis client from the console:
$ redis-cli
redis> set mykey myvalue
OK
redis> get mykey
"myvalue"
redis> set mykey 123
OK
redis> get mykey
"123"
redis> del mykey
(integer) 1
redis> get mykey
(nil)
Redis has a lot to offer as you can see at http://redis.io/commands, it provide sets, sorted sets, counters, lists, publish-subscribe, and much more.
Rather than making strongly typed object for each command the "redis_flex" library is just a convenient wrapper to interact with Redis. The Redis class provides a send method to which you pass the same string you would on the command line, i.e.
server.send("SET MYKEY 123")You declare a connection to a redis server by creating an instance of the redis.Redis class as follows:
<redis:Redis id="server"
connected="server_connectedHandler(event)"
result="server_resultHandler(event)" />Then you can invoke the send method and you will get an instance of a redis.events.ResultEvent in return which can contain zero or more results based on the operation.
import redis.events.ResultEvent;
private function setup():void {
server.connect();
}
protected function server_connectedHandler(event:Event):void
{
server.send("GET A");
}
protected function server_resultHandler(event:ResultEvent):void
{
trace("RESULT:"+event.result[0]);
}Note it's not a good idea to connect a Flex application directly to Redis. Redis is usually used in the context of an application server that protects it's access in the same way that Flex doesn't connect directly to a database.