ezpubsub

ezpubsub is a set of higher-level abstractions over the Go library for Google Cloud Pub/Sub. It's built for convenience and intended to cover the vast majority of use cases with minimal fuss. If your use case isn't covered, you're advised to use the official library.

Why?

The cloud.google.com/go/pubsub library is well done and complete but also fairly low level. ezpubsub makes it easier to do the ~80% of things you're most likely to do with the library, especially when using Google Cloud Pub/Sub in development and testing environments.

ezpubsub features a small API surface area and doesn't require you to ever deal with context; if your use case requires context, use the core pubsub library.

Core concepts

The ezpubsub library gives you two core constructs, publishers and subscribers:

• Subscribers listen for messages on the specified topic and respond to each message using the provided listener function.
• Publishers publish messages to the specified topic either singly or in batches.

You can see examples on the GoDoc page.

Subscribers

Subscribers listen on the specified topic and apply the logic specified in the Listener function to each incoming message. Here's an example:

import (
        "cloud.google.com/go/pubsub"
        "github.com/lucperkins/ezpubsub"
        "log"
)

func main() {
        subscriberConfig := &ezpubsub.SubscriberConfig{
                Project: "my-project",
                Topic: "user-events",
                Subscription: "my-sub",
                Listener: func(msg *pubsub.Message) {
                        log.Printf("Event received: (id: %s, payload: %s)\n", msg.ID, string(msg.Data))
                        msg.Ack()
                },
        }
        subscriber, err := ezpubsub.NewSubscriber(subscriberConfig)
        if err != nil {
            // handle error
        }

        subscriber.Start()
}

Publishers

Publishers publish messages on the specified topic and handle publishing results according to the logic specified in the Notifier function.

import (
        "cloud.google.com/go/pubsub"
        "context"
        "github.com/lucperkins/ezpubsub"
        "time"
)

func main() {
        publisherConfig := &ezpubsub.PublisherConfig{
                Project: "my-project",
                Topic: "user-events",
                Notifier: func(res *pubsub.PublishResult) {
                        msgId, _ := res.Get(context.Background())
                        log.Printf("Message published: (id: %s)\n", id)
                },
        }

        publisher, err := ezpubsub.NewPublisher(publisherConfig)
        if err != nil {
                // handle error
        }

        // Publish bytes
        publisher.Publish([]byte("Hello world"))

        // Publish a string
        publisher.PublishString("Hello world")
        
        // Publish a JSON-serializable item
        event := struct {
                ID        int64
                Timestamp int64
                Message   string
        }{
                123456,
                time.Now.Uniz(),
                "Something happened",
        }
        err = publisher.PublishObject(event)
        if err != nil {
                // handle error
        }
}

Admin

ezpubsub offers an Admin type that enables you to perform basic administrative tasks. At the moment, Admin supports listing all topics in a project. More functionality will be added later.

func main() {
        project := "my-project"
        admin, err := ezpubsub.NewAdmin(project)
        if err != nil {
                // handle error
        }

        // List topics
        topics, err := admin.ListTopics()
        if err != nil {
                // handle error
        }

        fmt.Println("Listing topics:")
        for _, topic := range topics {
                fmt.Println(topic)
        }
}