ReJSON Commands
Overview
Supported JSON
ReJSON aims to provide full support for ECMA-404 The JSON Data Interchange Standard.
Below, the term JSON Value refers to any of the valid values. A Container is either a JSON Array or a JSON Object. A JSON Scalar is a JSON Number, a JSON String or a literal (JSON False, JSON True or JSON Null).
ReJSON API
Each of the module's commands is described below. Each section header shows the syntax for the command, where:
- Command and subcommand names are in uppercase, for example
JSON.SETorINDENT - Mandatory arguments are enclosed in angle brackets, e.g.
<path> - Optional arguments are enclosed in square brackets, e.g.
[index] - Additional optional arguments are indicated by three period characters, i.e.
... - The pipe character,
|, means an exclusive or
Commands usually require a key's name as their first argument. The path is generally assumed to be the root if not specified.
The time complexity of the command does not include that of the path. The size - usually denoted N - of a value is:
- 1 for scalar values
- The sum of sizes of items in a container
JSON.DEL
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the size of the deleted value.
Syntax
JSON.DEL <key> <path>
Description
Delete a value.
path defaults to root if not provided. Non-existing keys and paths are ignored. Deleting an object's root is equivalent to deleting the key from Redis.
Return value
Integer, specifically the number of paths deleted (0 or 1).
JSON.GET
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the size of the value.
Syntax
JSON.GET <key>
[INDENT indentation-string]
[NEWLINE line-break-string]
[SPACE space-string]
[path ...]
Description
Return the value at path in JSON serialized form.
This command accepts multiple paths, and defaults to the value's root when none are given.
The following subcommands change the reply's format and are all set to the empty string by default:
INDENT sets the indentation string for nested levels
NEWLINE sets the string that's printed at the end of each line
* SPACE sets the string that's put between a key and a value
Pretty-formatted JSON is producible with redis-cli by following this example:
~/$ redis-cli --raw 127.0.0.1:6379> JSON.GET myjsonkey INDENT "\t" NEWLINE "\n" SPACE " " path.to.value[1]
Return value
Bulk String, specifically the JSON serialization.
The reply's structure depends on the number of paths. A single path results in the value itself being returned, whereas multiple paths are returned as a JSON object in which each path is a key.
JSON.MGET
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(M*N), where M is the number of keys and N is the size of the value.
Syntax
JSON.MGET <key> [key ...] <path>
Description
Returns the values at path from multiple keys. Non-existing keys and non-existing paths are reported as null.
Return value
Array of Bulk Strings, specifically the JSON serialization of the value at each key's path.
JSON.SET
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(M+N), where M is the size of the original value (if it exists) and N is the size of the new value.
Syntax
JSON.SET <key> <path> <json>
[NX | XX]
Description
Sets the JSON value at path in key
For new Redis keys the path must be the root. For existing keys, when the entire path exists, the value that it contains is replaced with the json value.
A key (with its respective value) is added to a JSON Object (in a Redis ReJSON data type key) if and only if it is the last child in the path. The optional subcommands modify this behavior for both new Redis ReJSON data type keys as well as the JSON Object keys in them:
NX- only set the key if it does not already existXX- only set the key if it already exists
Return value
Simple String OK if executed correctly, or Null Bulk if the specified NX or XX
conditions were not met.
JSON.TYPE
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(1).
Syntax
JSON.TYPE <key> [path]
Description
Report the type of JSON value at path.
path defaults to root if not provided. If the key or path do not exist, null is returned.
Return value
Simple String, specifically the type of value.
JSON.NUMINCRBY
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(1).
Syntax
JSON.NUMINCRBY <key> <path> <number>
Description
Increments the number value stored at path by number.
Return value
Bulk String, specifically the stringified new value.
JSON.NUMMULTBY
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(1).
Syntax
JSON.NUMMULTBY <key> <path> <number>
Description
Multiplies the number value stored at path by number.
Return value
Bulk String, specifically the stringified new value.
JSON.STRAPPEND
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the new string's length.
Syntax
JSON.STRAPPEND <key> [path] <json-string>
Description
Append the json-string value(s) the string at path.
path defaults to root if not provided.
Return value
Integer, specifically the string's new length.
JSON.STRLEN
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(1).
Syntax
JSON.STRLEN <key> [path]
Description
Report the length of the JSON String at path in key.
path defaults to root if not provided. If the key or path do not exist, null is returned.
Return value
Integer, specifically the string's length.
JSON.ARRAPPEND
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(1).
Syntax
JSON.ARRAPPEND <key> <path> <json> [json ...]
Description
Append the json value(s) into the array at path after the last element in it.
Return value
Integer, specifically the array's new size.
JSON.ARRINDEX
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the array's size.
Syntax
JSON.ARRINDEX <key> <path> <json-scalar> [start [stop]]
Search for the first occurrence of a scalar JSON value in an array.
The optional inclusive start (default 0) and exclusive stop (default 0, meaning that the last element is included) specify a slice of the array to search.
Note: out of range errors are treated by rounding the index to the array's start and end. An inverse index range (e.g. from 1 to 0) will return unfound.
Return value
Integer, specifically the position of the scalar value in the array, or -1 if unfound.
JSON.ARRINSERT
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the array's size.
Syntax
JSON.ARRINSERT <key> <path> <index> <json> [json ...]
Description
Insert the json value(s) into the array at path before the index (shifts to the right).
The index must be in the array's range. Inserting at index 0 prepends to the array. Negative index values are interpreted as starting from the end.
Return value
Integer, specifically the array's new size.
JSON.ARRLEN
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(1).
Syntax
JSON.ARRLEN <key> [path]
Report the length of the JSON Array at path in key.
path defaults to root if not provided. If the key or path do not exist, null is returned.
Return value
Integer, specifically the array's length.
JSON.ARRPOP
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the array's size forindexother than the last element, O(1) otherwise.
Syntax
JSON.ARRPOP <key> [path [index]]
Description
Remove and return element from the index in the array.
path defaults to root if not provided. index is the position in the array to start popping from (defaults to -1, meaning the last element). Out of range indices are rounded to their respective array ends. Popping an empty array yields null.
Return value
Bulk String, specifically the popped JSON value.
JSON.ARRTRIM
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the array's size.
Syntax
JSON.ARRTRIM <key> <path> <start> <stop>
Description
Trim an array so that it contains only the specified inclusive range of elements.
This command is extremely forgiving and using it with out of range indexes will not produce an error. If start is larger than the array's size or start > stop, the result will be an empty array. If start is < 0 then it will be treated as 0. If stop is larger than the end of the array, it will be treated like the last element in it.
Return value
Integer, specifically the array's new size.
JSON.OBJKEYS
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the number of keys in the object.
Syntax
JSON.OBJKEYS <key> [path]
Description
Return the keys in the object that's referenced by path.
path defaults to root if not provided. If the object is empty, or either key or path do not exist, then null is returned.
Return value
Array, specifically the key names in the object as Bulk Strings.
JSON.OBJLEN
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(1).
Syntax
JSON.OBJLEN <key> [path]
Description
Report the number of keys in the JSON Object at path in key.
path defaults to root if not provided. If the key or path do not exist, null is returned.
Return value
Integer, specifically the number of keys in the object.
JSON.DEBUG
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the size of the JSON value.
Syntax
JSON.DEBUG <subcommand & arguments>
Description
Report information.
Supported subcommands are:
MEMORY <key> [path]- report the memory usage in bytes of a value.pathdefaults to root if not provided.HELP- reply with a helpful message
Return value
Depends on the subcommand used.
MEMORYreturns an integer, specifically the size in bytes of the valueHELPreturns an array, specifically with the help message
JSON.FORGET
An alias for JSON.DEL.
JSON.RESP
Available since 1.0.0.
Time complexity: O(N), where N is the size of the JSON value.
Syntax
JSON.RESP <key> [path]
Description
Return the JSON in key in Redis Serialization Protocol (RESP).
path defaults to root if not provided. This command uses the following mapping from JSON to RESP:
- JSON Null is mapped to the RESP Null Bulk String
- JSON false and true values are mapped to the respective RESP Simple Strings
- JSON Numbers are mapped to RESP Integers or RESP Bulk Strings, depending on type
- JSON Strings are mapped to RESP Bulk Strings
- JSON Arrays are represented as RESP Arrays in which the first element is the simple string [ followed by the array's elements
- JSON Objects are represented as RESP Arrays in which the first element is the simple string {. Each successive entry represents a key-value pair as a two-entries array of bulk strings.
Return value
Array, specifically the JSON's RESP form as detailed.