Open mgravell opened 7 hours ago
Open question: if this is approved and implemented; how much of the existing docs/guidance should be updated to reflect usage as a dotnet tool rather than via raw exe usage? And who should do that?
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very nice! i think it is about time someone came up with a better client tool than redis-cli
:). do you have plans for specific differentiating features yet?
in resp-cli
? a big one for me will be getting it to work with out-of-band messages, however, that might need some advanced console-fu so I can retain the bottom editable line but scroll in new data above it; obviously that won't work with redirected IO, but I wonder if it can work with an interactive console and some magic
(edit: I also described what is basically the -c
feature in redis-cli
; I should reimplement that, but that isn't a differentiator, if it exists in redis-cli
! the biggest reason for this is simply: getting hold of the tool conveniently, especially on Windows)
If you would like me to prepare a PR to help with this: just let me know what PackageId and ToolCommandName to use.
This is a fantastic idea, and we would love to include this simplification. ToolCommandName
should remain garnet-server IMHO. We might even consider renaming GarnetServer.exe at some point for consistency?
For PackageId
, we own the Microsoft.Garnet.*
prefix namespace in NuGet.org, so wondering if we should contine down that road as Microsoft.Garnet.Server
. TBH, garnet-server
sounds simple and easier to find too. Is there a way for one to redirect to the other?
Active redirect? No. What we can do is (for example) mark garnet-server
as deprecated, citing Microsoft.Garnet.Server
(or whatever) as the alternate. This should cause an appropriate message to be issued, but it isn't an active redirect AFAIK (we could test it?). Using Microsoft.Garnet.Server
or similar makes total sense, and me blocking out garnet-server
as an empty stub with a "please go here instead" makes sense to prevent malicious actors squatting it. I also agree there's a certain elegance in simply using garnet-server
. Up to you!
Feature request type
enhancement
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
Right now, installing and running Garnet is a pain if what you want is just "give me a server"; the getting started guide involves
git clone
,dotnet restore
,dotnet build
,dotnet run
etc. Which means you need dev tools and a lot of steps - and you need to repeat all that to keep up-to-date. If you're a developer, great! But if you just want a server, this is massively overkill; you want something more like "install, (run command)"Thought experiment; how about if, from any OS with .NET, it was as simple as:
Well, it can be that simple, because: the above works! It also supports simple updates, etc; for example:
Describe the solution you'd like
So: I'm proposing that the
/main/GarnetServer
executable is packaged and uploaded to NuGet as a .NET global tool; this is not complicated; here's how I did the above. The main bits are just:(although other things like a readme, icon, etc are good practice)
Note:
I have uploaded
garnet-server
for the purposes of this demonstration; I claim no ownership of this:garnet-server
package: you can have itMicrosoft.Garnet.Server
or whatever package, and want me to nukegarnet-server
, we can do that (I can just mark the versions as deprecated, which will also serve to prevent anyone else squatting it)If you would like me to prepare a PR to help with this: just let me know what
PackageId
andToolCommandName
to use. Personally, for simplicity, I would suggest either of (in my preferred order, although it really isn't up to me):garnet-server
garnet-server
or
Microsoft.Garnet.Server
garnet-server
The package is the thing used in
dotnet tool install --global THIS_BIT_HERE
, and the command is the thing the end-user types. The reason I am advocatinggarnet-server
as the command is for parity withredis-server
,memurai-server
,valkey-server
, etc. There's a lot to be said for parity. The brevity is also nice. Note that this contrasts with the existing executable name ofGarnetServer.exe
; fortunately, thedotnet tool
packaging makes this a non-issue, with an abstraction between commands and assemblies. The NuGet packageMicrosoft.Garnet
is already in use as a library (package-reference), and I do not propose changing that at all - henceMicrosoft.Garnet.Server
as a fallback suggestion for the package.In unrelated news, you might also like a tool I'm playing with (and plan to improve a lot); this is what made me think of
garnet-server
:Describe alternatives you've considered
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Additional context
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