Publish with custom attributes

Publish messages with custom attributes.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Publishing messages to Lite topics

Code sample

Go

To authenticate to Pub/Sub Lite, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsub"
	"cloud.google.com/go/pubsublite/pscompat"
)

func publishWithCustomAttributes(w io.Writer, projectID, zone, topicID string) error {
	// projectID := "my-project-id"
	// zone := "us-central1-a"
	// topicID := "my-topic"
	ctx := context.Background()
	topicPath := fmt.Sprintf("projects/%s/locations/%s/topics/%s", projectID, zone, topicID)

	// Create the publisher client.
	publisher, err := pscompat.NewPublisherClient(ctx, topicPath)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("pscompat.NewPublisherClient error: %w", err)
	}

	// Ensure the publisher will be shut down.
	defer publisher.Stop()

	// Publish a message with custom attributes.
	result := publisher.Publish(ctx, &pubsub.Message{
		Data: []byte("message-with-custom-attributes"),
		Attributes: map[string]string{
			"year":   "2020",
			"author": "unknown",
		},
	})

	// Get blocks until the result is ready.
	id, err := result.Get(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("publish error: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Published a message with custom attributes: %v\n", id)
	return publisher.Error()
}

Java

To authenticate to Pub/Sub Lite, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import com.google.api.core.ApiFuture;
import com.google.api.gax.rpc.ApiException;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.CloudRegion;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.CloudRegionOrZone;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.CloudZone;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.MessageMetadata;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.ProjectNumber;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.TopicName;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.TopicPath;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.cloudpubsub.MessageTransforms;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.cloudpubsub.Publisher;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.cloudpubsub.PublisherSettings;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import com.google.protobuf.util.Timestamps;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PubsubMessage;
import java.time.Instant;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

public class PublishWithCustomAttributesExample {
  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
    // TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.
    String cloudRegion = "your-cloud-region";
    char zoneId = 'b';
    // Choose an existing topic for the publish example to work.
    String topicId = "your-topic-id";
    long projectNumber = Long.parseLong("123456789");
    // True if using a regional location. False if using a zonal location.
    // https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/lite/docs/topics
    boolean regional = false;

    publishWithCustomAttributesExample(cloudRegion, zoneId, projectNumber, topicId, regional);
  }

  // Publish messages to a topic with custom attributes.
  public static void publishWithCustomAttributesExample(
      String cloudRegion, char zoneId, long projectNumber, String topicId, boolean regional)
      throws ApiException, ExecutionException, InterruptedException {

    CloudRegionOrZone location;
    if (regional) {
      location = CloudRegionOrZone.of(CloudRegion.of(cloudRegion));
    } else {
      location = CloudRegionOrZone.of(CloudZone.of(CloudRegion.of(cloudRegion), zoneId));
    }

    TopicPath topicPath =
        TopicPath.newBuilder()
            .setProject(ProjectNumber.of(projectNumber))
            .setLocation(location)
            .setName(TopicName.of(topicId))
            .build();

    PublisherSettings publisherSettings =
        PublisherSettings.newBuilder().setTopicPath(topicPath).build();

    Publisher publisher = Publisher.create(publisherSettings);

    // Start the publisher. Upon successful starting, its state will become RUNNING.
    publisher.startAsync().awaitRunning();

    // Prepare the message data as a byte string.
    String messageData = "message-with-custom-attributes";
    ByteString data = ByteString.copyFromUtf8(messageData);

    // Prepare a protobuf-encoded event timestamp for the message.
    Instant now = Instant.now();
    String eventTime =
        MessageTransforms.encodeAttributeEventTime(Timestamps.fromMillis(now.toEpochMilli()));

    PubsubMessage pubsubMessage =
        PubsubMessage.newBuilder()
            .setData(data)
            // Add two sets of custom attributes to the message.
            .putAllAttributes(ImmutableMap.of("year", "2020", "author", "unknown"))
            // Add an event timestamp as an attribute.
            .putAttributes(MessageTransforms.PUBSUB_LITE_EVENT_TIME_TIMESTAMP_PROTO, eventTime)
            .build();

    // Publish a message.
    ApiFuture<String> future = publisher.publish(pubsubMessage);

    // Shut down the publisher.
    publisher.stopAsync().awaitTerminated();

    String ackId = future.get();
    MessageMetadata metadata = MessageMetadata.decode(ackId);
    System.out.println("Published a message with custom attributes:\n" + metadata);
  }
}

Python

To authenticate to Pub/Sub Lite, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

from google.cloud.pubsublite.cloudpubsub import PublisherClient
from google.cloud.pubsublite.types import (
    CloudRegion,
    CloudZone,
    MessageMetadata,
    TopicPath,
)

# TODO(developer):
# project_number = 1122334455
# cloud_region = "us-central1"
# zone_id = "a"
# topic_id = "your-topic-id"
# regional = True

if regional:
    location = CloudRegion(cloud_region)
else:
    location = CloudZone(CloudRegion(cloud_region), zone_id)

topic_path = TopicPath(project_number, location, topic_id)

# PublisherClient() must be used in a `with` block or have __enter__() called before use.
with PublisherClient() as publisher_client:
    data = "Hello world!"
    api_future = publisher_client.publish(
        topic_path,
        data.encode("utf-8"),
        year="2020",
        author="unknown",
    )
    # result() blocks. To resolve api futures asynchronously, use add_done_callback().
    message_id = api_future.result()
    message_metadata = MessageMetadata.decode(message_id)
    print(
        f"Published {data} to partition {message_metadata.partition.value} and offset {message_metadata.cursor.offset}."
    )

print(f"Finished publishing a message with custom attributes to {str(topic_path)}.")

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