RedisEntities

How to install it?

You can install RedisEntites from this Github repository with python3 setup.py install, or just install it directly from pypi with pip3 install redis-entities.

What is it?

Redis Entities is a small library that allows you to map represent certain entities in Redis. An Entity could be for example a Hashmap type and stores information about one User that currently requested a password reset. Each Entity has a predefined Prefix used to differentiate the different types of Entities you create. There are 3 different RedisEntities you can use:

• RedisListEntity
• RedisSetEntity
• RedisHashmapEntity

In addition there are a couple of mixins, which can be used to provide additional functionality to your entities. There are 3 different Mixins you can use:

• HashedIdentifierMixin: All identifiers are hashed before stored in Redis
• AuthenticatedEncryptionMixin: All values are encrypted and authenticated before stored in Redis
• DeterministicAuthenticatedEncryptionMixin: All values are encrypted and authenticated deterministically (the same value is encrypted to the same ciphertext) before stored in Redis

You can also combine multiple Mixins, except AuthenticatedEncryptionMixin and DeterministicAuthenticatedEncryptionMixin.

How does it work?

To create an own Entity, just subclass from one of the Provided RedisEntity Base classes.
Note, that every Entity has to set the RedisClient Class Attribute to an instances of Redis from redis-py, or a class that supports all methods that Redis from redis-py does.

Under the hood all keys are stored as strings, and all values are stored as bytes in Redis.

RedisListEntity:

import redis
from redis_entities import RedisListEntity
from redis_entities.mixins import AuthenticatedEncryptionMixin
class JobQueueEntity(RedisListEntity, AuthenticatedEncryptionMixin):
    RedisClient = redis.Redis(...)
    Prefix = "JobQueue"
    AesKey = b"deaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddead" # AES-128 in this case

JobQueueEntity.lpush("Worker1", "command1")
assert JobQueueEntity.length("Worker1") == 1

Supported Methods are:

• lpush
• brpop
• lindex
• length
• clear

RedisSetEntity:

import redis
from redis_entities import RedisSetEntity
from redis_entities.mixins import DeterministicAuthenticatedEncryptionMixin
class AccessTokensEntity(RedisSetEntity, DeterministicAuthenticatedEncryptionMixin):
    RedisClient = redis.Redis(...)
    Prefix = "AccessTokens"
    Expire = 180
    AesKey = b"deaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddead" # need to be twice the size of the key required by the underlying cipher (e.g. 64 bytes for AES-256)

AccessTokensEntity.add("User1", "Token1")
AccessTokensEntity.add("User2", "Token1")
assert AccessTokensEntity.exists("User1", "Token1") is True

Supported Methods are:

• add
• delete
• clear
• exists
• list_all
• length

NOTE: It is strongly recommended to use the DeterministicAuthenticatedEncryptionMixin instead of the AuthenticatedEncryptionMixin when you are working with RedisSetEntity , as most methods need to know the exact value that is stored in Redis. With the DeterministicAuthenticatedEncryptionMixin , the same plaintext results in the same ciphertext and thus makes this possible.

RedisHashmapEntity

import redis
from redis_entities import RedisHashmapEntity, 
from redis_entities.mixins import HashedIdentifierMixin, AuthenticatedEncryptionMixin
class VerifyEmailTokens(RedisHashmapEntity, HashedIdentifierMixin, AuthenticatedEncryptionMixin):
    RedisClient = redis.Redis(...)
    Prefix = "VerifyEmailTokens"
    Contents = (
        "MandatoryKey1",
        "MandatoryKey2"
    )
    Expire = 180
    HashName = "sha512_256"
    Salt = b"VerifyEmailTokens"
    AesKey = b"deaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddeaddead"

VerifyEmailTokens.store("test@example.com", MandatoryKey1="Value1", MandatoryKey2="Value2")
loaded_entity = VerifyEmailTokens.load("test@example.com")
assert loaded_entity.MandatoryKey1 == b"Value1"
assert loaded_entity.MandatoryKey1 == b"Value2"
assert VerifyEmailTokens.exists("test@example.com") is True

Supported Methods are:

• store

• load

• exists

• delete

• length