How can I find full list all calls to an API

Question

I have a very large ASP.Net C# ver 4.8 solution with several projects. The application uses Redis as remote cache. I want to audit the code on regular basis (once a quarter) to get full list of all redis keys. Once I have baseline after initial run, I want to compare and see any recently added keys etc.

Code interacts with Redis through an abstracted layer, CacheManager. Some typical calls looks like this.

cacheManager.Set("key1", "value1")

myCache.Get("key1")

cache.Set("key2", "value2");

Where cacheManager, myCache, cache etc. are local instances of CacheManager.

I want to get a full list of CacheManager usage along with keys and values. Should I look into Static Code Analysis options or something else?

Answer 1

You can approach this from two sides. If you want to find all set methods from your Cache Manager, right click the class name and select Find all references (Ctrl + K, R by default). Then go through that list and check all keys.

If the redis instance is only used by this application, you could very wsell open up the redis-cli and output all keys to a txt file and analyse it this way. Might also be faster.

redis-cli keys * > myKeys.txt

If all your keys are prefixed you can of course adapt the query to keys prefix:* or whatever. The asterisk is the wildcard.