A test for node_redis that shows some inconsistencies.

test.redis-multi.js

var redis = require('redis')
  , client = redis.createClient()
  , assert = require('assert');

// redis.debug_mode = true;

client.on("error", function (err) {
    console.log("Error " + err);
});

function gen(i){
  var s = '';
  while(i--)
    s += 'k'//String.fromCharCode(Math.random()*100+100);
  return s;
}

// generate 1Mb of hash
var hash1024 = {};
for(var l=100; l> 0; l--){
  // 1kb key, 9kb value
  hash1024[gen(1024)] = gen(1024*9);
}

// generate a hash
var hash100 = {};
for(var l=100; l> 0; l--){
  // 1b key, 1kb value
  hash100['k'] = 'v';
}

// select other db
client.select(2);

// clean out old keys
var multi = client.multi();
multi.del('hi1')
multi.del('hi2')
multi.del('hi3')
multi.exec(function(err,results){
  assert.ifError(err)
  assert.equal(results[0],'1')
  assert.equal(results[1],'1')
  assert.equal(results[2],'1')
});

// select hash (large: 1024 or small: 100)
var hash = hash100;

// hmset
var multi = client.multi();
multi.hmset('hi1',hash);
multi.hmset('hi2',hash);
multi.hmset('hi3',hash);
multi.exec(function(err,results){
  assert.ifError(err)
  assert.equal(results[0],'OK')
  assert.equal(results[1],'OK')
  assert.equal(results[2],'OK')


  // hmget
  // watch out for QUEUED
  var multi = client.multi();
  multi.hgetall('hi1')
  multi.hgetall('hi2')
  multi.hgetall('hi3')
  multi.exec(function(err,results){
    assert.ifError(err);
    console.log(results)
    assert(results[0],'could not find result 0')
    assert(results[1],'could not find result 1')
    assert(results[2],'could not find result 2')
    Object.keys(hash).forEach(function(k){
      assert(results[0][k],'could not find '+k+' in result 0')
      assert(results[1][k],'could not find '+k+' in result 1')
      assert(results[2][k],'could not find '+k+' in result 2')
      assert.equal(results[0][k],hash[k])
      assert.equal(results[1][k],hash[k])
      assert.equal(results[2][k],hash[k])
    })
    client.quit()
  })
})