Stream Pub/Sub Lite to Cloud Storage using Dataflow

This sample shows how to create an Apache Beam streaming pipeline that reads messages from Pub/Sub Lite, group the messages using a fixed-sized windowing function, and writes them to Cloud Storage.

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

• Stream Pub/Sub Lite messages by using Dataflow

Code sample

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.cloud.pubsublite.SubscriptionPath;
import com.google.cloud.pubsublite.proto.SequencedMessage;
import org.apache.beam.examples.common.WriteOneFilePerWindow;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.gcp.pubsublite.PubsubLiteIO;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.gcp.pubsublite.SubscriberOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.Default;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.Description;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.StreamingOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.Validation.Required;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.MapElements;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.FixedWindows;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.windowing.Window;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.TypeDescriptors;
import org.joda.time.Duration;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class PubsubliteToGcs {
  /*
   * Define your own configuration options. Add your arguments to be processed
   * by the command-line parser.
   */
  public interface PubsubliteToGcsOptions extends StreamingOptions {
    @Description("Your Pub/Sub Lite subscription.")
    @Required
    String getSubscription();

    void setSubscription(String value);

    @Description("Window size of output files in minutes.")
    @Default.Integer(1)
    Integer getWindowSize();

    void setWindowSize(Integer value);

    @Description("Filename prefix of output files.")
    @Required
    String getOutput();

    void setOutput(String value);
  }

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

  public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
    // The maximum number of shards when writing output files.
    int numShards = 1;

    PubsubliteToGcsOptions options =
        PipelineOptionsFactory.fromArgs(args).withValidation().as(PubsubliteToGcsOptions.class);

    options.setStreaming(true);

    SubscriberOptions subscriberOptions =
        SubscriberOptions.newBuilder()
            .setSubscriptionPath(SubscriptionPath.parse(options.getSubscription()))
            .build();

    Pipeline pipeline = Pipeline.create(options);
    pipeline
        .apply("Read From Pub/Sub Lite", PubsubLiteIO.read(subscriberOptions))
        .apply(
            "Convert messages",
            MapElements.into(TypeDescriptors.strings())
                .via(
                    (SequencedMessage sequencedMessage) -> {
                      String data = sequencedMessage.getMessage().getData().toStringUtf8();
                      LOG.info("Received: " + data);
                      long publishTime = sequencedMessage.getPublishTime().getSeconds();
                      return data + "\t" + publishTime;
                    }))
        .apply(
            "Apply windowing function",
            Window
                // Group the elements using fixed-sized time intervals based on the element
                // timestamp (using the default event time trigger). The element timestamp
                // is the publish timestamp associated with a message.
                //
                // NOTE: If data is not being continuously ingested, such as with a batch or
                // intermittent publisher, the final window will never close as the watermark
                // will not advance. If this is a possibility with your pipeline, you should
                // add an additional processing time trigger to force window closure after
                // enough time has passed. See
                // https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#triggers
                // for more information.
                .<String>into(FixedWindows.of(Duration.standardMinutes(options.getWindowSize()))))
        .apply("Write elements to GCS", new WriteOneFilePerWindow(options.getOutput(), numShards));

    // Execute the pipeline. You may add `.waitUntilFinish()` to observe logs in your console, but
    // `waitUntilFinish()` will not work in Dataflow Flex Templates.
    pipeline.run();
  }
}

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