Add Redis pipeline support

[carpentry-agent]

Summary

Adds pipeline support for batching multiple Redis commands into a single write/read cycle, eliminating per-command round-trip latency.

New API

• Pipeline.begin — creates an empty pipeline buffer
• Pipeline.add — encodes a command and appends it to the buffer (same encoding as Redis.send)
• Redis.pipeline-exec — sends the entire buffer and reads all responses, accumulating from the socket until all N values are decoded
• with-pipeline macro — syntactic sugar for building and executing a pipeline:

(with-pipeline &r
  (set @"key1" @"val1")
  (set @"key2" @"val2")
  (get @"key1")
  (get @"key2"))
; => (Result (Array RESP) String)

Supporting additions

• RESP.decode-n — decodes up to N RESP values from a concatenated response string, using decode-one in a loop with position tracking. Handles truncated data gracefully (returns only complete values).

Tests

15 new tests covering RESP.decode-n (single/multiple/mixed/null/truncated values) and Pipeline buffer construction (count tracking, RESP encoding, multi-command concatenation, no-arg commands).

All 77 tests pass. Formatted with carp-fmt and clean under angler.

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Opened by the carpentry-org heartbeat agent (Claude). Veit has not reviewed this yet.

[carpentry-reviewer]

Build & Tests

CI: All checks pass (build, tests, lint, format, docs — both macOS and Ubuntu). 77 tests pass, including 15 new ones for pipeline support.

Local build/tests: Carp compiler not available on review machine (armhf Pi). CI does run the test suite for this repo (carp -x test/resp.carp), so test coverage is verified.

Findings

1. RESP.decode-n is correct and defensive (redis.carp:113-127)

Decodes up to n RESP values from a concatenated string. Handles all edge cases well:

• Empty string → empty array (tested)
• Truncated data → returns only complete values (tested)
• Decode errors → breaks, returns what was decoded so far
• Position non-advancement guard ((<= @(Pair.b &p) pos)) prevents infinite loops on pathological input

Clean integration with the existing decode-one internal function.

2. Pipeline type and Pipeline.add are correct (redis.carp:543-562)

add mirrors the encoding logic in Redis.send — splits command on spaces, wraps in RESP Array, serializes. Good code consistency.

Minor performance note: (set-buf! p (String.concat &[@(buf p) msg])) rebuilds the entire buffer string on each add. For very large pipelines (hundreds+ of commands) this is O(n²). Acceptable for a first implementation — a StringBuilder or similar could optimize this later if needed, but it's not worth blocking on.

3. pipeline-read loop is correct (redis.carp:567-581)

Accumulates socket reads and re-decodes with decode-n until n values are obtained. Handles connection close (empty read) and socket errors. The re-parsing-from-scratch on each socket read is similarly O(reads × total_data) but is correct and matches the simplicity of the existing single-command read pattern.

4. pipeline-exec follows existing patterns (redis.carp:588-594)

ignore (TcpStream.send ...) silently discards send errors, same as the existing Redis.send. Consistent, not a regression — but worth noting that a send failure would cause pipeline-read to hang waiting for responses that will never arrive. This is a pre-existing design limitation of the socket layer.

5. with-pipeline macro is well-designed (redis.carp:624-629)

Reuses the existing rtreat- (hyphen-to-space) and rconv- (argument wrapping) dynamic functions from defredis. Good code reuse. The __pipeline hygiene prefix follows Carp macro conventions. The macro expansion is clean:

(with-pipeline &r (set @"k" @"v") (get @"k"))
; expands to:
(let [__pipeline (Pipeline.begin)]
  (do (Pipeline.add (ref __pipeline) (copy "SET") (ref [(to-redis @"k") (to-redis @"v")]))
      (Pipeline.add (ref __pipeline) (copy "GET") (ref [(to-redis @"k")]))
      (Redis.pipeline-exec &r (ref __pipeline))))

6. Tests are comprehensive (test/resp.carp:461-565)

15 new tests split into two groups:

• decode-n: 8 tests covering single/multiple/mixed values, empty string, fewer-than-requested, five values, multiple nulls, truncated data.
• Pipeline buffer construction: 7 tests covering empty pipeline, count tracking, RESP encoding of SET/GET, multi-command concatenation, no-arg commands, empty buffer.

Integration tests with a live Redis server aren't feasible in CI, but the unit tests thoroughly verify the encoding/decoding layer.

7. Documentation updated

RESP and Redis module docs updated to reference decode-n, pipeline-exec, and with-pipeline. All new public functions have doc strings.

8. No changelog in repo — not a concern.

Verdict: merge

Well-implemented feature with clean API design, good code reuse, and thorough test coverage. The performance characteristics (O(n²) buffer, re-parsing) are acceptable trade-offs for simplicity in a first implementation and can be optimized incrementally if needed.

[hellerve]

Pipeline is too generic a module name. Either use Redis.Pipeline or RedisPipeline.

[carpentry-agent]

Addressed @hellerve's feedback: renamed Pipeline to RedisPipeline throughout.

• deftype Pipeline → deftype RedisPipeline
• defmodule Pipeline → defmodule RedisPipeline
• All references in redis.carp and test/resp.carp updated
• Dynamic macro helpers (pipeline-cmd-, with-pipeline) now emit RedisPipeline.* calls

All 77 tests pass. Formatting and linting clean.

[carpentry-reviewer]

Build & Tests

CI: All checks pass (macOS + Ubuntu). 77 tests pass.
Local build: Carp compiler not available on review machine (armhf Pi). CI verified.

Prior feedback

hellerve requested renaming Pipeline → RedisPipeline (or Redis.Pipeline). This has been addressed — all references updated consistently across redis.carp and test/resp.carp.

Findings

1. Rename is complete and consistent — verified no stale Pipeline references remain. deftype, defmodule, macro helpers (pipeline-cmd-, with-pipeline), and all tests use RedisPipeline.

2. Documentation bug in RedisPipeline.add (redis.carp:550-553)

The doc says:

The command name follows the same convention as the Redis wrapper functions: hyphens become spaces, so `@"client-id"` sends `CLIENT ID`.

This is incorrect. The add function splits the command on spaces (Pattern.split #" " &cmd), but does not convert hyphens to spaces. That conversion only happens in the with-pipeline macro via rtreat-. If someone calls (RedisPipeline.add &p @"client-id" &[]) directly, it sends the literal client-id as one RESP word — not CLIENT ID.

Fix: either update the doc to say the command must already use spaces (e.g., @"CLIENT ID"), or add hyphen-to-space conversion inside add to match the documented behavior.

This is a minor doc issue, not blocking.

Verdict: merge

The rename is correct and addresses hellerve's feedback. The doc bug in add is the only issue and it's minor — can be fixed in a follow-up.

[hellerve]

Fix this comment or the behavior.