From 69dea8029437529615510fcbfeb80f7a0070d179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jamie Gaskins <jgaskins@hey.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 18:32:09 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add the abilty to get a binary value for a key

---
 spec/redis_spec.cr |  5 +++++
 src/connection.cr  | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spec/redis_spec.cr b/spec/redis_spec.cr
index fdb7037..cdecc6b 100644
--- a/spec/redis_spec.cr
+++ b/spec/redis_spec.cr
@@ -34,6 +34,11 @@ describe Redis::Client do
     redis.get(key).should eq nil
   end
 
+  test "can get a string key as Bytes" do
+    redis.set key, "bar"
+    redis.get_bytes(key).should eq "bar".to_slice
+  end
+
   test "can set expiration timestamps on keys" do
     redis.set key, "foo", ex: 10.milliseconds.from_now
     redis.get(key).should eq "foo"
diff --git a/src/connection.cr b/src/connection.cr
index a31b40a..96bf13b 100644
--- a/src/connection.cr
+++ b/src/connection.cr
@@ -339,6 +339,17 @@ module Redis
         xrevrange:  Array,
         xtrim:      Int64,
       })
+
+
+      # Get the value for the specified key
+      #
+      # ```
+      # redis.set "foo", "bar"
+      # redis.get("foo", as: Bytes) # => "bar"
+      # ```
+      def get_bytes(key : String)
+        get(key).try(&.to_slice)
+      end
     end
 
     set_return_types!