RedisWorkQueue: Dotnet Implementation

A work queue, on top of a redis database, with implementations in Python, Rust, Go, Node.js (TypeScript) and Dotnet (C#).

This is the Dotnet implementations. For an overview of how the work queue works, it's limitations, and the general concepts and implementations in other languages, please read the redis-work-queue readme.

Documentation

Below is a brief example. More details on the core concepts can be found in the readme, and full API documentation can be found in ../RedisWorkQueue.pdf.

Example Usage

using FreeRedis;
using RedisWorkQueue;

var redis = new RedisClient("localhost");
var workQueue = new WorkQueue("work_queue");

var item = new Item(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("data"), "item_1");

workQueue.AddItem(redis, item);

var queueLength = workQueue.QueueLength(redis);
Console.WriteLine($"Queue Length: {queueLength}");

var lease = workQueue.Lease(redis, 30, true, 10);
if (lease != null)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"Leased Item: {lease.ID}");
    // Do the work here
    workQueue.Complete(redis, lease);
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine("No item available to lease");
}

In this example, we create a Redis client and a new instance of the WorkQueue class. We then add an item to the work queue using the AddItem method and get the length of the main queue using the QueueLength method.

We then try to lease an item from the work queue using the Lease method. If an item is available, we do the work and mark the item as completed using the Complete method.

Note that in this example, we pass true for the block parameter of the Lease method, which means the method will block and wait for an item to be available if the main queue is empty. We also pass a timeout value of 10 seconds, which means that if there are no items available after 10 seconds, the method will return .