Developing the 'somehow' in 'This list [of commands] needs to be updated, and perhaps auto-updated somehow'

generate_commands.js

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+var http = require("http"),
+    sys = require("sys"),
+    fs = require("fs");
+
+http.get({host: "redis.io", path: "/commands.json"}, function(res) {
+    console.log("Response from redis.io/commands.json: " + res.statusCode);
+  
+    var commandString = "";
+    res.on('data', function(chunk) {
+        commandString += chunk;
+    });
+
+    res.on('end', function() {
+        var commands = JSON.parse(commandString);
+        writeCommandsToFile(commands, "lib/commands.js");
+    })
+}).on('error', function(e) {
+    console.log("Got error: " + e.message);
+});
+
+function writeCommandsToFile(commands, path) {
+    console.log("Writing " + path);
+    
+    var fileContents = "// This file was generated by ./generate_commands.js on ";
+    fileContents += prettyCurrentTime();
+    fileContents += "\nCommands = [\n";
+  
+    var lowerCommands = [];
+    for (var command in commands) {
+        lowerCommands.push("    \"" + command.toLowerCase() + "\"");
+    }
+  
+    fileContents += lowerCommands.join(",\n");
+    fileContents += "\n];\n\n"
+    fileContents += "exports.Commands = Commands;"
+
+    fs.writeFile(path, fileContents);
+}
+
+function prettyCurrentTime() {
+  var date = new Date();
+  return date.toLocaleString();
+}

index.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /*global Buffer require exports console setTimeout */
 
 var net = require("net"),
+    Commands = require("./lib/commands").Commands,
     util = require("./lib/util").util,
     Queue = require("./lib/queue").Queue,
     to_array = require("./lib/to_array"),
@@ -568,29 +569,7 @@ function Multi(client, args) {
     }
 }
 
-// Official source is: http://redis.io/commands.json
-// This list needs to be updated, and perhaps auto-updated somehow.
-[
-    // string commands
-    "get", "set", "setnx", "setex", "append", "substr", "strlen", "del", "exists", "incr", "decr", "mget", 
-    // list commands
-    "rpush", "lpush", "rpushx", "lpushx", "linsert", "rpop", "lpop", "brpop", "blpop", "brpoplpush", "llen", "lindex", "lset", "lrange", 
-    "ltrim", "lrem", "rpoplpush",
-    // set commands
-    "sadd", "srem", "smove", "sismember", "scard", "spop", "srandmember", "sinter", "sinterstore", "sunion", "sunionstore", "sdiff", "sdiffstore", "smembers",
-    // sorted set commands
-    "zadd", "zincrby", "zrem", "zremrangebyscore", "zremrangebyrank", "zunionstore", "zinterstore", "zrange", "zrangebyscore", "zrevrangebyscore", 
-    "zcount", "zrevrange", "zcard", "zscore", "zrank", "zrevrank",
-    // hash commands
-    "hset", "hsetnx", "hget", "hmget", "hincrby", "hdel", "hlen", "hkeys", "hvals", "hgetall", "hexists", "incrby", "decrby",
-    //bit commands
-    "getbit", "setbit", "getrange", "setrange",
-    // misc
-    "getset", "mset", "msetnx", "randomkey", "select", "move", "rename", "renamenx", "expire", "expireat", "keys", "dbsize", "ping", "echo",
-    "save", "bgsave", "bgwriteaof", "shutdown", "lastsave", "type", "sync", "flushdb", "flushall", "sort", "info", "discard",
-    "monitor", "ttl", "persist", "slaveof", "debug", "config", "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "psubscribe", "punsubscribe", "publish", "watch", "unwatch",
-    "quit"
-].forEach(function (command) {
+Commands.forEach(function (command) {
     RedisClient.prototype[command] = function () {
         var args = to_array(arguments);
         args.unshift(command); // put command at the beginning

lib/commands.js

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+// This file was generated by ./generate_commands.js on Thu Jun 02 2011 21:09:35 GMT-0500 (CDT)
+Commands = [
+    "append",
+    "auth",
+    "bgrewriteaof",
+    "bgsave",
+    "blpop",
+    "brpop",
+    "brpoplpush",
+    "config get",
+    "config set",
+    "config resetstat",
+    "dbsize",
+    "debug object",
+    "debug segfault",
+    "decr",
+    "decrby",
+    "del",
+    "discard",
+    "echo",
+    "exec",
+    "exists",
+    "expire",
+    "expireat",
+    "flushall",
+    "flushdb",
+    "get",
+    "getbit",
+    "getrange",
+    "getset",
+    "hdel",
+    "hexists",
+    "hget",
+    "hgetall",
+    "hincrby",
+    "hkeys",
+    "hlen",
+    "hmget",
+    "hmset",
+    "hset",
+    "hsetnx",
+    "hvals",
+    "incr",
+    "incrby",
+    "info",
+    "keys",
+    "lastsave",
+    "lindex",
+    "linsert",
+    "llen",
+    "lpop",
+    "lpush",
+    "lpushx",
+    "lrange",
+    "lrem",
+    "lset",
+    "ltrim",
+    "mget",
+    "monitor",
+    "move",
+    "mset",
+    "msetnx",
+    "multi",
+    "object",
+    "persist",
+    "ping",
+    "psubscribe",
+    "publish",
+    "punsubscribe",
+    "quit",
+    "randomkey",
+    "rename",
+    "renamenx",
+    "rpop",
+    "rpoplpush",
+    "rpush",
+    "rpushx",
+    "sadd",
+    "save",
+    "scard",
+    "sdiff",
+    "sdiffstore",
+    "select",
+    "set",
+    "setbit",
+    "setex",
+    "setnx",
+    "setrange",
+    "shutdown",
+    "sinter",
+    "sinterstore",
+    "sismember",
+    "slaveof",
+    "smembers",
+    "smove",
+    "sort",
+    "spop",
+    "srandmember",
+    "srem",
+    "strlen",
+    "subscribe",
+    "sunion",
+    "sunionstore",
+    "sync",
+    "ttl",
+    "type",
+    "unsubscribe",
+    "unwatch",
+    "watch",
+    "zadd",
+    "zcard",
+    "zcount",
+    "zincrby",
+    "zinterstore",
+    "zrange",
+    "zrangebyscore",
+    "zrank",
+    "zrem",
+    "zremrangebyrank",
+    "zremrangebyscore",
+    "zrevrange",
+    "zrevrangebyscore",
+    "zrevrank",
+    "zscore",
+    "zunionstore"
+];
+
+exports.Commands = Commands;