functions for manipulating gobs

internal/cache/gob.go

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+package cache
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/gob"
+	"github.com/redis/go-redis/v9"
+)
+
+func StoreCacheGob[Data any](ctx context.Context, rdb *redis.Client, key string, data Data) error {
+	var buffer bytes.Buffer
+	encoder := gob.NewEncoder(&buffer)
+
+	// Serialize struct to Gob
+	err := encoder.Encode(data)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Store data in Redis
+	return rdb.Set(ctx, key, buffer.Bytes(), 0).Err()
+}
+
+func GetCacheGob[Data any](ctx context.Context, rdb *redis.Client, key string) (Data, error) {
+	var data Data
+
+	binData, err := rdb.Get(ctx, key).Bytes()
+	if err != nil {
+		return data, err
+	}
+
+	buffer := bytes.NewBuffer(binData)
+	decoder := gob.NewDecoder(buffer)
+
+	// Deserialize Gob binary back to struct
+	err = decoder.Decode(&data)
+	if err != nil {
+		return data, err
+	}
+
+	return data, nil
+}