Groovy Memcached "client"

Ok so this post is not PDI related (yet, stay tuned :) but in my search for easy memcached client UIs I came up fairly shorthanded unless I wanted to buy something, write a Java client, or install a package.  All I needed to do for my test was to be able to set and get a couple of values and I didn't really want to start a new project, build a Java app, etc.

There's a very easy way to do this with Groovy Grapes and the spymemcached client (and the Groovy Console as a "UI"). Just @Grab the spymemcached JAR, connect a client, and off you go:

The script is as simple as this:

@Grab('net.spy:spymemcached:2.10.5')

import net.spy.memcached.MemcachedClient

def memcachedClient = new MemcachedClient( new InetSocketAddress('127.0.0.1', 11211 ) );

memcachedClient.set('myKey',3600, "Hello world!")

memcachedClient.set('intKey',3600, 45)

println "myKey = ${memcachedClient.get('myKey')}"

println "intKey = ${memcachedClient.get('intKey')}"

It's pretty easy to change this to a command-line interface (CLI) to take parameters for keys, expiration times, etc. Note I'm using the synchronous gets/sets but this is just for testing.

Anyway this came about while writing my Memcached Input/Output step plugins for PDI, keep your eye on the Marketplace, I hope to have them released this week. Cheers!