Redis Backpack

This page outlines how sasquatch backpack uses redis.

State Storage

Sasquatch-backpack uses Redis as a mechanism for storing state. In the current implementation, Redis is used to store item IDs as keys. In the Datasource configuration, use uses_redis = True to store the IDs of the items sent to Sasquatch, as shown here. This way Sasquatch-backpack will remove items with duplicate IDs from subsequent publish events.

Items are only added to redis storage if a publish method has succeeded at sending them to sasquatch. On failure, redis is skipped in order to accurately match the remote status as closely as possible.