Wrongly parsed redis::response when executing MULTI statement

[zlausd]

Let me preface the bug report that I may be doing something horribly wrong and misusing the library.

Now that thats out of the way, lets start off at redis/redis-cli level and lower the description of the observation towards the output seen in C++ and at the very end is the code sample that replicates this behavior.

Lets create a dummy test set

SADD TEST_SET a b c d e f g

redis-cli output

127.0.0.1:6379> SADD TEST_SET a b c d e f
(integer) 6
127.0.0.1:6379> SMEMBERS TEST_SET
1~ "a"
2~ "b"
3~ "c"
4~ "d"
5~ "e"
6~ "f"

And intersect it with a temporary set that contains the values a and z.

MULTI
SADD TMP_SET a z
SDIFF TMP_SET TEST_SET
ECHO this_should_not_be_in_set
DEL TMP_SET
EXEC

redis-cli output

127.0.0.1:6379> MULTI
OK
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> SADD TMP_SET a z
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> SDIFF TMP_SET TEST_SET
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> ECHO this_should_not_be_in_set
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> DEL TMP_SET
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> EXEC
1) (integer) 2
2) 1~ "z"                        <-- C++ string container should contain only one entry
3) "this_should_not_be_in_set"
4) (integer) 1

Everything looks fine and this works when translated into the same C++ code. The issue starts when the intersection is empty as the follow up command response is parsed to the member representing SDIFF.

MULTI
SADD TMP_SET a
SDIFF TMP_SET TEST_SET
ECHO this_should_not_be_in_set
DEL TMP_SET
EXEC

redis-cli output

127.0.0.1:6379> MULTI
OK
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> SADD TMP_SET a
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> SDIFF TMP_SET TEST_SET
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> ECHO this_should_not_be_in_set
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> DEL TMP_SET
QUEUED
127.0.0.1:6379(TX)> EXEC
1) (integer) 1
2) (empty set)              <- Intersection is empty, therefore C++ string container should also be empty
3) "this_should_not_be_in_set"   <-- But the following string is added into the container
4) (integer) 1

The result of the SDIFF operator when I translate the above two MULTI transactions into boost/redis is as follows:

Not contained in TEST_SET: z 
Not contained in TEST_SET: this_should_not_be_in_set 

Appreciate any feedback as to what I am doing wrong. Changing the type to either std::set<std::string> or std::optional<std::vector<std::string>> gives the same behavior.

Code:

#include <boost/redis/connection.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/deferred.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/detached.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/strand.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/co_spawn.hpp>
#include <vector>
#include <set>
#include <iostream>
#include <ranges>
#include <boost/redis/config.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/use_awaitable.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/io_context.hpp>
#include <boost/redis/src.hpp>

namespace asio = boost::asio;
using boost::redis::request;
using boost::redis::response;
using boost::redis::ignore_t;
using boost::redis::ignore;
using boost::redis::config;
using boost::redis::connection;
using boost::asio::awaitable;
using boost::asio::deferred;
using boost::asio::detached;

void print(std::map<std::string, std::string> const& cont)
{
   for (auto const& e: cont)
      std::cout << e.first << ": " << e.second << "\n";
}

void print(std::ranges::range auto const & cont)
{
    for (auto const& e: cont) std::cout << e << " ";
    std::cout << "\n";
}

auto populate_set(std::shared_ptr<connection> conn) -> awaitable<void>
{
   std::vector<std::string> test_data{"a","b","c","d","e","f"};
   request req;
   req.push_range("SADD", "TEST_SET", test_data);
 
   co_await conn->async_exec(req, ignore, deferred);
}

auto test_set(std::shared_ptr<connection> conn, std::vector<std::string> query_data) -> awaitable<void>
{
    request req;
    req.push("MULTI");
    req.push_range("SADD", "TMP_SET", query_data);
    req.push("SDIFF", "TMP_SET", "TEST_SET");
    req.push("ECHO", "this_should_not_be_in_set");
    req.push("DEL", "TMP_SET");
    req.push("EXEC");

    response<
            ignore_t, // MULTI
            ignore_t, // SADD
            ignore_t, // SDIFF
            ignore_t, // ECHO
            ignore_t, // DEL
            response<ignore_t,std::vector<std::string>,ignore_t, ignore_t> // EXEC
    > resp;

    co_await conn->async_exec(req, resp, deferred);

    auto not_contained_values = std::get<1>(std::get<5>(resp).value()).value() | std::ranges::to<std::vector>();
    std::cout << "Not contained in TEST_SET: ";
    print(not_contained_values);
}

awaitable<void> co_main(config cfg)
{
    auto conn = std::make_shared<connection>(co_await asio::this_coro::executor);
    conn->async_run(cfg, {}, consign(detached, conn));

    co_await populate_set(conn);
    co_await test_set(conn, {"a", "z"}); //Works fine since intersection contains one element
    co_await test_set(conn, {"a"}); //Skips empty set and adds the response to ECHO

    conn->cancel();
}

auto main(int argc, char * argv[]) -> int
{
    try {
        config cfg; //localhost instance, default/no account
        asio::io_context ioc;
        asio::co_spawn(ioc, co_main(cfg), [](std::exception_ptr p) {
            if (p) std::rethrow_exception(p);
        });
        ioc.run();
    } catch (std::exception const& e) {
        std::cerr << "(main) " << e.what() << std::endl;
        return 1;
    }
}

[zlausd]

Modifying test_set to run commands as individual requests works as one would expect

Not contained in TEST_SET: z 
Not contained in TEST_SET: 

auto test_set(std::shared_ptr<connection> conn, std::vector<std::string> query_data) -> awaitable<void>
{
    {
        request req;
        req.push_range("SADD", "TMP_SET", query_data);
        co_await conn->async_exec(req, ignore, deferred);
    }
    {
        request req;
        req.push("SDIFF", "TMP_SET", "TEST_SET");
        response<std::vector<std::string>> resp;
        co_await conn->async_exec(req, resp, deferred);
        auto not_contained_values = std::get<0>(resp).value();
        std::cout << "Not contained in TEST_SET: ";
        print(not_contained_values);
    }
    {
        request req;
        req.push("ECHO", "this_should_not_be_in_set");
        co_await conn->async_exec(req, ignore, deferred);
    }
    {
        request req;
        req.push("DEL", "TMP_SET");
        co_await conn->async_exec(req, ignore, deferred);
    }
}

Edit: Not using MULTI/EXEC and putting everything into one request also seems to work fine.

auto test_intersection(std::shared_ptr<connection> conn, std::vector<std::string> query_data) -> awaitable<void>
{
    request req;
    req.push_range("SADD", "TMP_SET", query_data);
    req.push("SDIFF", "TMP_SET", "TEST_SET");
    req.push("ECHO", "this_should_not_be_in_set");
    req.push("DEL", "TMP_SET");


    response<ignore_t, std::vector<std::string>, ignore_t, ignore_t > resp;
    co_await conn->async_exec(req, resp, deferred);
    auto not_contained_values = std::get<1>(resp).value();
    std::cout << "Not contained in TEST_SET: ";
    print(not_contained_values);
}

[criatura2]

Hi, thanks for reporting. I will have a look at it on this weekend. For now you could check if the generic_response solves the problem for you.