Introducing Lark a RESTy interface for Redis

Dec 22, 2013

Lark is a python library that provides a generic method for transforming a HTTP request into a redis command. If you know what webdis is then you’ll roughly know what this is. It does a couple of things right now:

It users REST as a guideline without getting to pedantic.
It has built in support for per user key prefixs.
It automatically JSON encodes redis values (where appropriate).
It has lots of tests (and TravisCI all setup).

I have been slowly amping up this project so that it could be my holiday project¹, because I have a host of things I want to add quickly. Webdis has authentication right out of the box. Lark is setup for a scope based authentication scheme, but there is no examples of really how to do that. This is the next thing I am going to work on creating an authentication/authorization layer that people can use.

So, if you are interested checkout the github page and fork it. Tell me how crazy I am, tell me where this thing just doesn’t work at all like I say it does.

for more on why holidays are a great time to work on projects checkout Macdrifters post Seasonal Tasks ↩︎