redis-om-python/docs/fastapi_integration.md
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# FastAPI Integration
## Introduction
This section includes a complete example showing how to integrate Redis OM with FastAPI.
Good news: Redis OM was **specifically designed to integrate with FastAPI**!
## Concepts
### Every Redis OM Model is also a Pydantic model
Every Redis OM model is also a Pydantic model, so you can define a model and then use the model class anywhere that FastAPI expects a Pydantic model.
This means a couple of things:
1. A Redis OM model can be used for request body validation
2. Redis OM models show up in the auto-generated API documentation
### Cache vs. Data
Redis works well as either a durable data store or a cache, but the optiomal Redis configuration is often different between these two use cases.
You almost always want to use a Redis instance tuned for caching when you're caching and a separate Redis instance tuned for data durability for storing application state.
This example shows how to manage these two uses of Redis within the same application. The app uses a FastAPI caching framework and dedicated caching instance of Redis for caching, and a separate Redis instance tuned for durability for Redis OM models.
## Example app code
This is a complete example that you can run as-is:
```python
import datetime
from typing import Optional
import aioredis
from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
from starlette.requests import Request
from starlette.responses import Response
from fastapi_cache import FastAPICache
from fastapi_cache.backends.redis import RedisBackend
from fastapi_cache.decorator import cache
from pydantic import EmailStr
from redis_om.model import HashModel, NotFoundError
from redis_om.connections import get_redis_connection
# This Redis instance is tuned for durability.
REDIS_DATA_URL = "redis://localhost:6380"
# This Redis instance is tuned for cache performance.
REDIS_CACHE_URL = "redis://localhost:6381"
class Customer(HashModel):
first_name: str
last_name: str
email: EmailStr
join_date: datetime.date
age: int
bio: Optional[str]
app = FastAPI()
@app.post("/customer")
async def save_customer(customer: Customer):
# We can save the model to Redis by calling `save()`:
return customer.save()
@app.get("/customers")
async def list_customers(request: Request, response: Response):
# To retrieve this customer with its primary key, we use `Customer.get()`:
return {"customers": Customer.all_pks()}
@app.get("/customer/{pk}")
@cache(expire=10)
async def get_customer(pk: str, request: Request, response: Response):
# To retrieve this customer with its primary key, we use `Customer.get()`:
try:
return Customer.get(pk)
except NotFoundError:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="Customer not found")
@app.on_event("startup")
async def startup():
r = aioredis.from_url(REDIS_CACHE_URL, encoding="utf8", decode_responses=True)
FastAPICache.init(RedisBackend(r), prefix="fastapi-cache")
# You can set the Redis OM URL using the REDIS_OM_URL environment
# variable, or by manually creating the connection using your model's
# Meta object.
Customer.Meta.database = get_redis_connection(url=REDIS_DATA_URL, decode_responses=True)
```
## Testing the app
You should install the app's dependencies first. This app uses Poetry, so you'll want to make sure you have that installed first:
$ pip install poetry
Then install the dependencies:
$ poetry install
Next, start the server:
$ poetry run uvicorn --reload main:test
Then, in another shell, create a customer:
$ curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/customer" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"first_name":"Andrew","last_name":"Brookins","email":"a@example.com","age":"38","join_date":"2020
-01-02"}'
{"pk":"01FM2G8EP38AVMH7PMTAJ123TA","first_name":"Andrew","last_name":"Brookins","email":"a@example.com","join_date":"2020-01-02","age":38,"bio":""}
Get a copy of the value for "pk" and make another request to get that customer:
$ curl "http://localhost:8000/customer/01FM2G8EP38AVMH7PMTAJ123TA"
{"pk":"01FM2G8EP38AVMH7PMTAJ123TA","first_name":"Andrew","last_name":"Brookins","email":"a@example.com","join_date":"2020-01-02","age":38,"bio":""}
You can also get a list of all customer PKs:
$ curl "http://localhost:8000/customers"
{"customers":["01FM2G8EP38AVMH7PMTAJ123TA"]}