Fake implementation of redis API for testing purposes.
Project description
fakeredis: A fake version of a redis-py
fakeredis is a pure python implementation of the redis-py python client that simulates talking to a redis server. This was created for a single purpose: to write unittests. Setting up redis is not hard, but many times you want to write unittests that do not talk to an external server (such as redis). This module now allows tests to simply use this module as a reasonable substitute for redis.
How to Use
The intent is for fakeredis to act as though you’re talking to a real redis server. It does this by storing state in the fakeredis module. For example:
>>> import fakeredis
>>> r = fakeredis.FakeStrictRedis()
>>> r.set('foo', 'bar')
True
>>> r.get('foo')
'bar'
>>> r.lpush('bar', 1)
1
>>> r.lpush('bar', 2)
2
>>> r.lrange('bar', 0, -1)
[2, 1]
By storing state in the fakeredis module, instances can share data:
>>> import fakeredis
>>> r1 = fakeredis.FakeStrictRedis()
>>> r1.set('foo', 'bar')
True
>>> r2 = fakeredis.FakeStrictRedis()
>>> r2.get('foo')
'bar'
>>> r2.set('bar', 'baz')
True
>>> r1.get('bar')
'baz'
>>> r2.get('bar')
'baz'
Fakeredis implements the same interface as redis-py, the popular redis client for python, and models the responses of redis 2.6.
Unimplemented Commands
All of the redis commands are implemented in fakeredis with these exceptions:
hash
hincrbyfloat
string
incrbyfloat
bitop
generic
restore
dump
pexpireat
pexpire
migrate
object
server
debug object
client list
lastsave
slowlog
sync
shutdown
debug segfault
monitor
client kill
config resetstat
time
config get
save
bgsave
bgrewriteaof
slaveof
info
config set
dbsize
connection
echo
select
quit
auth
scripting
script flush
script kill
script load
evalsha
eval
script exists
pubsub
punsubscribe
subscribe
publish
psubscribe
unsubscribe
Contributing
Contributions are welcome. Please see the contributing guide for more details.
Running the Tests
To ensure parity with the real redis, there are a set of integration tests that mirror the unittests. For every unittest that is written, the same test is run against a real redis instance using a real redis-py client instance. In order to run these tests you must have a redis server running on localhost, port 6379 (the default settings). The integration tests use db=10 in order to minimize collisions with an existing redis instance.
To run all the tests, install the requirements file:
pip install -r requirements.txt
If you just want to run the unittests:
nosetests test_fakeredis.py:TestFakeStrictRedis test_fakeredis.py:TestFakeRedis
Because this module is attempting to provide the same interface as redis-py, the python bindings to redis, a reasonable way to test this to to take each unittest and run it against a real redis server. fakeredis and the real redis server should give the same result. This ensures parity between the two. You can run these “integration” tests like this:
nosetests test_fakeredis.py:TestRealStrictRedis test_fakeredis.py:TestRealRedis
In terms of implementation, TestRealRedis is a subclass of TestFakeRedis that overrides a factory method to create an instance of redis.Redis (an actual python client for redis) instead of fakeredis.FakeStrictRedis.
To run both the unittests and the “integration” tests, run:
nosetests
If redis is not running and you try to run tests against a real redis server, these tests will have a result of ‘S’ for skipped.
There are some tests that test redis blocking operations that are somewhat slow. If you want to skip these tests during day to day development, they have all been tagged as ‘slow’ so you can skip them by running:
nosetests -a '!slow'
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