Title - Redis - Writing your first helloworld redis module

Description - Your first helloworld redis module which echo user inputs

Steps to Install

Step 1 - Compile the code

• Create redis-module-helloworld directory
• Copy the code files in redis-module-helloworld directory
• Execute following command to compile (install gcc compiler if not exists)
• gcc -fPIC -shared -std=gnu99 -o sdk_module.o sdk_module.c

Step 2 - Include Module to redis (we will use redis-cli, there are other was to to include modules)

• Make sure you redis server is running (>= redis 5.x)
• Go to redis-cli
• Execute MODULE LOAD /path/to/sdk_module.o

Step 3 - Test module

• Go to redis-cli and execute your command
• 127.0.0.1:6379> sdk.module.helloworld "your input string"
• "your input string" 127.0.0.1:6379>

Example:

suyog@suyog-vm1:~$ redis-cli 127.0.0.1:6379> module load /home/suyog/redis-module-helloworld/sdk_module.o OK 127.0.0.1:6379> sdk.module.helloworld "Suyog Kale" "Suyog Kale" 127.0.0.1:6379>

• Reference - https://redis.io/topics/modules-intro