Dumps Redis data sets into a format suitable for long-term storage (currently JSON) and loads data from such dump files back into Redis.
redis-dump was there first, but it is written in Ruby.
The output format is intended to be compatible with redis-dump.
redis-dump-load may be used as a module and also as a command line tool.
redis-dump-load exports a pickle-like interface, namely load
,
loads
, dump
and dumps
functions. For example:
import redisdl json_text = redisdl.dumps() with open('path/to/dump.json', 'w') as f: # streams data redisdl.dump(f) json_text = '...' redisdl.loads(json_text) with open('path/to/dump.json') as f: # currently does not stream data redisdl.load(f)
Note that while dump
will stream data, load
currently will not
(load
will read the entire file contents into a string, parse it,
then walk the resulting data structure and load it into redis).
Dump and load methods accept options as keyword arguments:
json_text = redisdl.dumps(encoding='iso-8859-1', pretty=True)
The arguments should always be passed in as keywords, i.e, do not rely on the order in which the parameters are currently listed. Options take string values unless otherwise noted. The options are as follows:
host
: host name or IP address for redis serverport
: port number for redis serverunix_socket_path
: connect to redis via a Unix socket instead of TCP/IP; specify the path to the socketpassword
: specify password to connect to redisdb
(integer): redis database to connect toencoding
: encoding to use for encoding or decoding the data, see Unicode section belowpretty
(boolean, dump only): produce a pretty-printed JSON which is easier to read; currently this makesdump
load entire data set into memory rather than stream itempty
(boolean, load only): empty the redis data set before loading the data
redisdl.py
can be used as a command line tool as follows:
# dump database 0 ./redisdl.py > dump.json ./redisdl.py -o dump.json # load into database 0 ./redisdl.py -l < dump.json ./redisdl.py -l dump.json
For convenience, redisdl.py
can be hard or soft linked as follows:
ln redisdl.py redis-dump ln redisdl.py redis-load
Now it can be used thusly:
# dump database 0 ./redis-dump > dump.json ./redis-dump -o dump.json # load into database 0 ./redis-load < dump.json ./redis-load dump.json
Symlinks work as well. "load" in the executable name triggers the loading
mode, "dump" triggers the dumping mode, otherwise the default is to dump
and -l
option switches into the loading mode.
All options supported my the module API are accepted when redisdl is invoked as a command line tool. The command line options are:
-h
/--help
: help text-H HOST
/--host HOST
: specify redis host-p PORT
/--port PORT
: specify redis port-s SOCKET_PATH
/--socket SOCKET_PATH
: connect to Unix socket at the specified path-w PASSWORD
/--password PASSWORd
: password to use when connecting to redis-d DATABASE
/--db DATABASE
: redis database to connect to (integer)-E ENCODING
/-encoding ENCODING
: specify encoding to use-o PATH
/--output PATH
: write dump to PATH rather than standard output-y
/--pretty
(dumping only): pretty-print JSON-e
/--empty
(loading only): empty redis data set before loading
- redis-py
- simplejson (Python 2.5 only)
Redis operates on bytes and has no concept of Unicode or encodings. JSON operates on Unicode strings and cannot serialize binary data. Therefore, redis-dump-load has to encode Unicode strings into byte strings when loading data into Redis and decode byte strings into Unicode strings when dumping data from Redis. By default redis-dump-load uses utf-8 for encoding and decoding. This behavior matches redis-py, whose default encoding is utf-8. A different encoding can be specified.
Currently redis-py is broken on Python 3 with any encoding which is not a superset of ascii (redis/redis-py#430). Data sets in such encodings can still be dumped and loaded on Python 2.
redis-dump-load does not lock the entire data set it is dumping, because Redis does not provide a way to do so. As a result, modifications to the data set made while a dump is in progress affect the contents of the dump.
Released under the 2 clause BSD license.