Saving a collection of objects with BookSleeve

Question

I am new to both Redis and BookSleeve. I am evaluating whether I should use BookSleeve or ServiceStack.Redis.

ServiceStack seems much more staightforward but I like the idea of pipelining provided by BookSleeve.

I have Redis and BookSleeve running and getting and setting strings is a snap but I'm struggling to find examples of setting and getting a collection of objects such as my pocos.

public class MyType
{
....
}

IEnumerable<MyType> types = ....

How do I get and set these using BookSleeve?

Thanks.

Answer 1

BookSleeve exposes APIs to read/write strings and blobs (byte[]), but it does not force you down any particular serialization route, or dictate whether a collection should be stored as a single value, vs a list, etc.

Basically, with BookSleeve you would serialize separately, via any serializer that you fancy (XML, json, protobuf, whatever), and send that. This is usually only about 2 or 3 lines of code (often involving MemoryStream).