Added ability to use redis' incr to increment and decrement values.

To do this, we need to keep integers untouched while pickling any other type
of value. Existing tests should prove that the native incr is working, but
I added a test to show that if an integer was pickled and native incr is used,
then the cache backend will convert the pickled integer correctly.

redis_cache/cache.py

@@ -88,7 +88,12 @@ class CacheClass(BaseCache):
         value = self._cache.get(key)
         if value is None:
             return default
-        return self.unpickle(value)
+        try:
+            result = int(value)
+        except (ValueError, TypeError):
+            result = self.unpickle(value)
+        return result
+
 
     def set(self, key, value, timeout=None, version=None, client=None):
         """
@@ -97,11 +102,14 @@ class CacheClass(BaseCache):
         if not client:
             client = self._cache
         key = self.make_key(key, version=version)
-        # get timout
         if not timeout:
             timeout = self.default_timeout
-        # store the pickled value
+        try:
+            value = int(value)
+        except (ValueError, TypeError):
             result = self._cache.setex(key, pickle.dumps(value), int(timeout))
+        else:
+            result = self._cache.setex(key, value, int(timeout))
         # result is a boolean
         return result
 
@@ -165,6 +173,22 @@ class CacheClass(BaseCache):
             self.set(key, value, timeout, version=version, client=pipeline)
         pipeline.execute()
 
+    def incr(self, key, delta=1, version=None):
+        """
+        Add delta to value in the cache. If the key does not exist, raise a
+        ValueError exception.
+        """
+        key = self.make_key(key, version=version)
+        exists = self._cache.exists(key)
+        if not exists:
+            raise ValueError("Key '%s' not found" % key)
+        try:
+            value = self._cache.incr(key, delta)
+        except redis.ResponseError:
+            value = self.get(key) + 1
+            self.set(key, value)
+        return value
+
 
 class RedisCache(CacheClass):
     """

tests/testapp/tests.py

@@ -277,6 +277,24 @@ class RedisCacheTests(TestCase):
             self.assertEqual(self.cache.get(old_key), None)
             self.assertEqual(self.cache.get(new_key), 'spam')
 
+    def test_incr_with_pickled_integer(self):
+        "Testing case where there exists a pickled integer and we increment it"
+        number = 42
+        key = self.cache.make_key("key")
+
+        # manually set value using the redis client
+        self.cache._cache.set(key, pickle.dumps(number))
+        new_value = self.cache.incr(key)
+        self.assertEqual(new_value, number + 1)
+
+        # Test that the pickled value was converted to an integer
+        value = int(self.cache._cache.get(key))
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(value, int))
+
+        # now that the value is an integer, let's increment it again.
+        new_value = self.cache.incr(key, 7)
+        self.assertEqual(new_value, number + 8)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()