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Redis Lua: Collate Redis Key/Value Results

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Any Redis command that returns key/value pairs returns the results as a single list of alternating keys and values.
If you need to work the results in a Lua script, you'll likely want to collate them in a Lua table.

This script takes a Hash key and returns a collated JSON object of key/values.

> HMSET some-hash greeting1 hi
> HMSET some-hash greeting2 hello
> HMSET some-hash signoff1 bye

> EVAL "this script" 1 some-hash
{"greeting1": "hi", "greeting2": "hello", "signoff1": "bye"}

Keep in mind that there are actually a lot of Redis commands that return key/values this way, not just HGETALL, and that I'm returning JSON just for the eexample's sake.

Update: Pierre Chapuis @pchapuis suggested using a for-step loop rather than a for-each loop.