Django NATS Client

Important Notes

🚨 The latest major version of this package, v0.4.0, has a numerous breaking changes. Please review its release note.

Features

• Wrapper of NATS's nats-py
• Django management command to listen for incoming NATS messages
• Automatically serialize/deserialize message from/to JSON format
• Easy-to-call method for publishing NATS messages
• Support NATS JetStream pull subscription

Installation

pip install django-nats-client

Setup

1. Add nats_client into INSTALLED_APPS

   # settings.py
   
   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       ...
       'nats_client',
   ]

2. Put NATS connection configuration in settings

   # settings.py
   
   NATS_SERVERS = 'nats://localhost:4222'
   NATS_NAMESPACE = 'foo'

Usage

Listen for messages

1. Create a new callback method and register

   # common/nats.py
   
   import nats_client
   
   @nats_client.register
   def new_message(message: str):
       print(message)
   
   @nats_client.register
   def get_year_from_date(date: str):
       return date.year
   
   # custom name
   @nats_client.register('get_current_time')
   def current_time():
       return datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M')
   
   # without decorator
   def current_time():
       return datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%H:%M')
   nats_client.register('get_current_time', current_time)
   
   # JetStream
   @nats_client.register(js=True)
   def new_message(message: str):
       print(message)
   
   # JetStream from other namespace
   @nats_client.register(namespace='bar', js=True)
   def new_message_from_bar(message: str):
       print(message)

2. Import previously file in ready method of your apps.py

   # common/apps.py
   
   class CommonConfig(AppConfig):
       ...
   
       def ready(self):
           import common.nats

3. Run listener management command

   python manage.py nats_listener
   
   # or with autoreload enabled (suite for development)
   python manage.py nats_listener --reload

Publishing message

import nats_client

arg = 'some arg'
await nats_client.publish(
    'subject_name',
    'method_name',
    arg,
    keyword_arg=1,
    another_keyword_arg=2,
)

Examples

import nats_client

await nats_client.publish('default', 'new_message', 'Hello, world!')
await nats_client.publish('default', 'project_created', 1, name='ACME')

# JetStream
await nats_client.publish('default', 'new_message', 'Hello, world!', _js=True)
await nats_client.js_publish('default', 'new_message', 'Hello, world!')

Request-Reply

import nats_client

arg = 'some arg'
await nats_client.request(
    'subject_name',
    'method_name',
    arg,
    keyword_arg=1,
    another_keyword_arg=2,
)

Examples

import nats_client

year = await nats_client.request('default', 'get_year_from_date', datetime.date(2022, 1, 1))  # 2022
current_time = await nats_client.request('default', 'get_current_time')  # 12:11

Settings

Key	Type	Required	Default	Description
NATS_SERVER	str	Required if no NATS_SERVERS		NATS server's host
NATS_SERVERS	list[str]	Required if no NATS_SERVER		NATS server's hosts (for NATS cluster)
NATS_NAMESPACE	str	No	'default'	Main namespace using for prefixing subject, stream name, and etc.
NATS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT	int	No	1	Timeout when using request() (in seconds)
NATS_OPTIONS	dict	No	{}	Other configuration to be passed in nats.connect()
NATS_JETSTREAM_ENABLED	bool	No	True	Enable JetStream
NATS_JETSTREAM_DURABLE_NAME	str	No	settings.NATS_NAMESPACE	Durable name which is unique across all subscriptions
NATS_JETSTREAM_CREATE_STREAM	bool	No	True	Automatically create stream named in NATS_NAMESPACE
NATS_JETSTREAM_CONFIG	dict	No	{}	Extra configuration for JetStream streams

Development

Requirements

• Docker
• Python
• Poetry

Linting

make lint

Testing

make test

Fix Formatting

make yapf