Support memoryview encoding/decoding as a no-op

This allows memoryview instances to be passed to Redis command args that
expect strings or bytes. The memoryview instance is sent directly to
the socket such that there are zero copies made of the underlying data
during command packing.

Fixes #1265
Fixes #1285

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_pipeline.py b/tests/test_pipeline.py
index 867666b..828b989 100644
--- a/tests/test_pipeline.py
+++ b/tests/test_pipeline.py
@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ class TestPipeline(object):
                     [(b'z1', 2.0), (b'z2', 4)],
                 ]
 
+    def test_pipeline_memoryview(self, r):
+        with r.pipeline() as pipe:
+            (pipe.set('a', memoryview(b'a1'))
+                 .get('a'))
+            assert pipe.execute() == \
+                [
+                    True,
+                    b'a1',
+                ]
+
     def test_pipeline_length(self, r):
         with r.pipeline() as pipe:
             # Initially empty.