Pub/Sub to Pub/Sub template

The Pub/Sub to Pub/Sub template is a streaming pipeline that reads messages from a Pub/Sub subscription and writes the messages to another Pub/Sub topic. The pipeline also accepts an optional message attribute key and a value that can be used to filter the messages that should be written to the Pub/Sub topic. You can use this template to copy messages from a Pub/Sub subscription to another Pub/Sub topic with an optional message filter.

Pipeline requirements

The source Pub/Sub subscription must exist prior to execution.
The source Pub/Sub subscription must be a pull subscription.
The destination Pub/Sub topic must exist prior to execution.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description
`inputSubscription`	Pub/Sub subscription to read the input from. For example, `projects/<project-id>/subscriptions/<subscription-name>`.
`outputTopic`	Cloud Pub/Sub topic to write the output to. For example, `projects/<project-id>/topics/<topic-name>`.
`filterKey`	(Optional) Filter events based on an attribute key. No filters are applied if `filterKey` is not specified.
`filterValue`	(Optional) Filter attribute value to use in case a filterKey is provided. A null `filterValue` is used by default.

Run the template

Console

Go to the Dataflow Create job from template page.

Go to Create job from template

In the Job name field, enter a unique job name.
Optional: For Regional endpoint, select a value from the drop-down menu. The default region is us-central1.
For a list of regions where you can run a Dataflow job, see Dataflow locations.
From the Dataflow template drop-down menu, select the Pub/Sub to Pub/Sub template.
In the provided parameter fields, enter your parameter values.
Optional: To switch from exactly-once processing to at-least-once streaming mode, select At Least Once.
Click Run job.

gcloud

In your shell or terminal, run the template:

gcloud dataflow jobs run JOB_NAME \
    --gcs-location gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/VERSION/Cloud_PubSub_to_Cloud_PubSub \
    --region REGION_NAME \
    --staging-location STAGING_LOCATION \
    --parameters \
inputSubscription=projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_NAME,\
outputTopic=projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_NAME,\
filterKey=FILTER_KEY,\
filterValue=FILTER_VALUE

Replace the following:

JOB_NAME: a unique job name of your choice
REGION_NAME: the region where you want to deploy your Dataflow job—for example, us-central1
VERSION: the version of the template that you want to use
You can use the following values:
- latest to use the latest version of the template, which is available in the non-dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/latest/
- the version name, like 2023-09-12-00_RC00, to use a specific version of the template, which can be found nested in the respective dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/
Caution: The latest version of templates might update with breaking changes. Your production environments should use templates kept in the most recent dated parent folder to prevent these breaking changes from affecting your production workflows.
STAGING_LOCATION: the location for staging local files (for example, gs://your-bucket/staging)
SUBSCRIPTION_NAME: the Pub/Sub subscription name
TOPIC_NAME: the Pub/Sub topic name
FILTER_KEY: the attribute key by which events are filtered. No filters are applied if no key is specified.
FILTER_VALUE: filter attribute value to use if an event filter key is provided. Accepts a valid Java Regex string as an event filter value. In case a regex is provided, the complete expression should match in order for the message to be filtered. Partial matches (such as substring) are not filtered. A null event filter value is used by default.

API

To run the template using the REST API, send an HTTP POST request. For more information on the API and its authorization scopes, see projects.templates.launch.

POST https://dataflow.googleapis.com/v1b3/projects/PROJECT_ID/locations/LOCATION/templates:launch?gcsPath=gs://dataflow-templates-LOCATION/VERSION/Cloud_PubSub_to_Cloud_PubSub
{
   "jobName": "JOB_NAME",
   "environment": {
       "ipConfiguration": "WORKER_IP_UNSPECIFIED",
       "additionalExperiments": []
    },
   "parameters": {
       "inputSubscription": "projects/PROJECT_ID/subscriptions/SUBSCRIPTION_NAME",
       "outputTopic": "projects/PROJECT_ID/topics/TOPIC_NAME",
       "filterKey": "FILTER_KEY",
       "filterValue": "FILTER_VALUE"
   }
}

Replace the following:

PROJECT_ID: the Google Cloud project ID where you want to run the Dataflow job
JOB_NAME: a unique job name of your choice
LOCATION: the region where you want to deploy your Dataflow job—for example, us-central1
VERSION: the version of the template that you want to use
You can use the following values:
- latest to use the latest version of the template, which is available in the non-dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/latest/
- the version name, like 2023-09-12-00_RC00, to use a specific version of the template, which can be found nested in the respective dated parent folder in the bucket— gs://dataflow-templates-REGION_NAME/
Caution: The latest version of templates might update with breaking changes. Your production environments should use templates kept in the most recent dated parent folder to prevent these breaking changes from affecting your production workflows.
STAGING_LOCATION: the location for staging local files (for example, gs://your-bucket/staging)
SUBSCRIPTION_NAME: the Pub/Sub subscription name
TOPIC_NAME: the Pub/Sub topic name
FILTER_KEY: the attribute key by which events are filtered. No filters are applied if no key is specified.
FILTER_VALUE: filter attribute value to use if an event filter key is provided. Accepts a valid Java Regex string as an event filter value. In case a regex is provided, the complete expression should match in order for the message to be filtered. Partial matches (such as substring) are not filtered. A null event filter value is used by default.

Template source code

Java

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package com.google.cloud.teleport.templates;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static org.apache.beam.vendor.guava.v32_1_2_jre.com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument;

import com.google.auto.value.AutoValue;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.metadata.Template;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.metadata.TemplateCategory;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.metadata.TemplateParameter;
import com.google.cloud.teleport.templates.PubsubToPubsub.Options;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.PipelineResult;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.gcp.pubsub.PubsubIO;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.gcp.pubsub.PubsubMessage;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.Counter;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.Metrics;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.StreamingOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.Validation;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.ValueProvider;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.DoFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.ParDo;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * A template that copies messages from one Pubsub subscription to another Pubsub topic. Allows
 * filtering specific messages.
 *
 * <p>Check out <a
 * href="https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowTemplates/blob/main/v1/README_Cloud_PubSub_to_Cloud_PubSub.md">README</a>
 * for instructions on how to use or modify this template.
 */
@Template(
    name = "Cloud_PubSub_to_Cloud_PubSub",
    category = TemplateCategory.STREAMING,
    displayName = "Pub/Sub to Pub/Sub",
    description =
        "The Pub/Sub to Pub/Sub template is a streaming pipeline that reads messages from a Pub/Sub subscription and "
            + "writes the messages to another Pub/Sub topic. The pipeline also accepts an optional message attribute key and a value that can be used to filter the messages that should be written to the Pub/Sub topic. You can use this template to copy messages from a Pub/Sub subscription to another Pub/Sub topic with an optional message filter.",
    optionsClass = Options.class,
    documentation =
        "https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/templates/provided/pubsub-to-pubsub",
    contactInformation = "https://cloud.google.com/support",
    requirements = {
      "The source Pub/Sub subscription must exist prior to execution.",
      "The source Pub/Sub subscription must be a <a href=\"https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/docs/pull\">pull subscription</a>.",
      "The destination Pub/Sub topic must exist prior to execution."
    },
    streaming = true,
    supportsAtLeastOnce = true,
    supportsExactlyOnce = true)
public class PubsubToPubsub {

  /**
   * Main entry point for executing the pipeline.
   *
   * @param args The command-line arguments to the pipeline.
   */
  public static void main(String[] args) {

    // Parse the user options passed from the command-line
    Options options = PipelineOptionsFactory.fromArgs(args).withValidation().as(Options.class);

    options.setStreaming(true);

    run(options);
  }

  /**
   * Runs the pipeline with the supplied options.
   *
   * @param options The execution parameters to the pipeline.
   * @return The result of the pipeline execution.
   */
  public static PipelineResult run(Options options) {
    // Create the pipeline
    Pipeline pipeline = Pipeline.create(options);

    /*
     Steps:

     <p>1) Read PubSubMessage with attributes from input PubSub subscription.

     <p>2) Apply any filters if an attribute=value pair is provided.

     <p>3) Write each PubSubMessage to output PubSub topic.
    */
    pipeline
        .apply(
            "Read PubSub Events",
            PubsubIO.readMessagesWithAttributes().fromSubscription(options.getInputSubscription()))
        .apply(
            "Filter Events If Enabled",
            ParDo.of(
                ExtractAndFilterEventsFn.newBuilder()
                    .withFilterKey(options.getFilterKey())
                    .withFilterValue(options.getFilterValue())
                    .build()))
        .apply("Write PubSub Events", PubsubIO.writeMessages().to(options.getOutputTopic()));

    // Execute the pipeline and return the result.
    return pipeline.run();
  }

  /**
   * Options supported by {@link PubsubToPubsub}.
   *
   * <p>Inherits standard configuration options.
   */
  public interface Options extends PipelineOptions, StreamingOptions {
    @TemplateParameter.PubsubSubscription(
        order = 1,
        description = "Pub/Sub input subscription",
        helpText =
            "Pub/Sub subscription to read the input from, in the format of 'projects/your-project-id/subscriptions/your-subscription-name'",
        example = "projects/your-project-id/subscriptions/your-subscription-name")
    @Validation.Required
    ValueProvider<String> getInputSubscription();

    void setInputSubscription(ValueProvider<String> inputSubscription);

    @TemplateParameter.PubsubTopic(
        order = 2,
        description = "Output Pub/Sub topic",
        helpText =
            "The name of the topic to which data should published, in the format of 'projects/your-project-id/topics/your-topic-name'",
        example = "projects/your-project-id/topics/your-topic-name")
    @Validation.Required
    ValueProvider<String> getOutputTopic();

    void setOutputTopic(ValueProvider<String> outputTopic);

    @TemplateParameter.Text(
        order = 3,
        optional = true,
        description = "Event filter key",
        helpText =
            "Attribute key by which events are filtered. No filters are applied if no key is specified.")
    ValueProvider<String> getFilterKey();

    void setFilterKey(ValueProvider<String> filterKey);

    @TemplateParameter.Text(
        order = 4,
        optional = true,
        description = "Event filter value",
        helpText =
            "Filter attribute value to use if an event filter key is provided. Accepts a valid "
                + "Java Regex string as an event filter value. In case a regex is provided, the complete "
                + "expression should match in order for the message to be filtered. Partial matches (e.g. "
                + "substring) will not be filtered. A null event filter value is used by default.")
    ValueProvider<String> getFilterValue();

    void setFilterValue(ValueProvider<String> filterValue);
  }

  /**
   * DoFn that will determine if events are to be filtered. If filtering is enabled, it will only
   * publish events that pass the filter else, it will publish all input events.
   */
  @AutoValue
  public abstract static class ExtractAndFilterEventsFn extends DoFn<PubsubMessage, PubsubMessage> {

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ExtractAndFilterEventsFn.class);

    // Counter tracking the number of incoming Pub/Sub messages.
    private static final Counter INPUT_COUNTER =
        Metrics.counter(ExtractAndFilterEventsFn.class, "inbound-messages");

    // Counter tracking the number of output Pub/Sub messages after the user provided filter
    // is applied.
    private static final Counter OUTPUT_COUNTER =
        Metrics.counter(ExtractAndFilterEventsFn.class, "filtered-outbound-messages");

    private Boolean doFilter;
    private String inputFilterKey;
    private Pattern inputFilterValueRegex;
    private Boolean isNullFilterValue;

    public static Builder newBuilder() {
      return new AutoValue_PubsubToPubsub_ExtractAndFilterEventsFn.Builder();
    }

    @Nullable
    abstract ValueProvider<String> filterKey();

    @Nullable
    abstract ValueProvider<String> filterValue();

    @Setup
    public void setup() {

      if (this.doFilter != null) {
        return; // Filter has been evaluated already
      }

      inputFilterKey = (filterKey() == null ? null : filterKey().get());

      if (inputFilterKey == null) {

        // Disable input message filtering.
        this.doFilter = false;

      } else {

        this.doFilter = true; // Enable filtering.

        String inputFilterValue = (filterValue() == null ? null : filterValue().get());

        if (inputFilterValue == null) {

          LOG.warn(
              "User provided a NULL for filterValue. Only messages with a value of NULL for the"
                  + " filterKey: {} will be filtered forward",
              inputFilterKey);

          // For backward compatibility, we are allowing filtering by null filterValue.
          this.isNullFilterValue = true;
          this.inputFilterValueRegex = null;
        } else {

          this.isNullFilterValue = false;
          try {
            inputFilterValueRegex = getFilterPattern(inputFilterValue);
          } catch (PatternSyntaxException e) {
            LOG.error("Invalid regex pattern for supplied filterValue: {}", inputFilterValue);
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
          }
        }

        LOG.info(
            "Enabling event filter [key: " + inputFilterKey + "][value: " + inputFilterValue + "]");
      }
    }

    @ProcessElement
    public void processElement(ProcessContext context) {

      INPUT_COUNTER.inc();
      if (!this.doFilter) {

        // Filter is not enabled
        writeOutput(context, context.element());
      } else {

        PubsubMessage message = context.element();
        String extractedValue = message.getAttribute(this.inputFilterKey);

        if (this.isNullFilterValue) {

          if (extractedValue == null) {
            // If we are filtering for null and the extracted value is null, we forward
            // the message.
            writeOutput(context, message);
          }

        } else {

          if (extractedValue != null
              && this.inputFilterValueRegex.matcher(extractedValue).matches()) {
            // If the extracted value is not null and it matches the filter,
            // we forward the message.
            writeOutput(context, message);
          }
        }
      }
    }

    /**
     * Write a {@link PubsubMessage} and increment the output counter.
     *
     * @param context {@link ProcessContext} to write {@link PubsubMessage} to.
     * @param message {@link PubsubMessage} output.
     */
    private void writeOutput(ProcessContext context, PubsubMessage message) {
      OUTPUT_COUNTER.inc();
      context.output(message);
    }

    /**
     * Return a {@link Pattern} based on a user provided regex string.
     *
     * @param regex Regex string to compile.
     * @return {@link Pattern}
     * @throws PatternSyntaxException If the string is an invalid regex.
     */
    private Pattern getFilterPattern(String regex) throws PatternSyntaxException {
      checkNotNull(regex, "Filter regex cannot be null.");
      return Pattern.compile(regex);
    }

    /** Builder class for {@link ExtractAndFilterEventsFn}. */
    @AutoValue.Builder
    abstract static class Builder {

      abstract Builder setFilterKey(ValueProvider<String> filterKey);

      abstract Builder setFilterValue(ValueProvider<String> filterValue);

      abstract ExtractAndFilterEventsFn build();

      /**
       * Method to set the filterKey used for filtering messages.
       *
       * @param filterKey Lookup key for the {@link PubsubMessage} attribute map.
       * @return {@link Builder}
       */
      public Builder withFilterKey(ValueProvider<String> filterKey) {
        checkArgument(filterKey != null, "withFilterKey(filterKey) called with null input.");
        return setFilterKey(filterKey);
      }

      /**
       * Method to set the filterValue used for filtering messages.
       *
       * @param filterValue Lookup value for the {@link PubsubMessage} attribute map.
       * @return {@link Builder}
       */
      public Builder withFilterValue(ValueProvider<String> filterValue) {
        checkArgument(filterValue != null, "withFilterValue(filterValue) called with null input.");
        return setFilterValue(filterValue);
      }
    }
  }
}

What's next

Learn about Dataflow templates.
See the list of Google-provided templates.