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Alcamtar
Alcamtar

Reputation: 1582

What does memcached "get" return in telnet?

When I query a key in memcached using telnet, I see something like this:

> get mykeyname
VALUE mykeyname 3 240396
{the key value}
END

What is the first line? I can see the keyword VALUE and the name of the key but don't understand what the integers mean, and I can't find this documented anywhere. My guess is that the second integer is the length of the data in bytes, but what is the first one?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 863

Answers (1)

Sascha Trifunovic
Sascha Trifunovic

Reputation: 297

As specified in the Memcached protocol, the first integer are the flags and the second integer is the size of the value in bytes.

Upvotes: 1

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