Google Cloud Pub/Sub Client for Java

Java idiomatic client for Cloud Pub/Sub.

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• Client Library Documentation

Quickstart

If you are using Maven with BOM, add this to your pom.xml file:

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
      <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
      <version>26.51.0</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-cloud-pubsub</artifactId>
  </dependency>

</dependencies>

If you are using Maven without the BOM, add this to your dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>google-cloud-pubsub</artifactId>
  <version>1.134.2</version>
</dependency>

If you are using Gradle 5.x or later, add this to your dependencies:

implementation platform('com.google.cloud:libraries-bom:26.51.0')

implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub'

If you are using Gradle without BOM, add this to your dependencies:

implementation 'com.google.cloud:google-cloud-pubsub:1.135.0'

If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies:

libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-pubsub" % "1.135.0"

Authentication

See the Authentication section in the base directory's README.

Authorization

The client application making API calls must be granted authorization scopes required for the desired Cloud Pub/Sub APIs, and the authenticated principal must have the IAM role(s) required to access GCP resources using the Cloud Pub/Sub API calls.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You will need a Google Cloud Platform Console project with the Cloud Pub/Sub API enabled. You will need to enable billing to use Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Follow these instructions to get your project set up. You will also need to set up the local development environment by installing the Google Cloud Command Line Interface and running the following commands in command line: gcloud auth login and gcloud config set project [YOUR PROJECT ID].

Installation and setup

You'll need to obtain the google-cloud-pubsub library. See the Quickstart section to add google-cloud-pubsub as a dependency in your code.

About Cloud Pub/Sub

Cloud Pub/Sub is designed to provide reliable, many-to-many, asynchronous messaging between applications. Publisher applications can send messages to a topic and other applications can subscribe to that topic to receive the messages. By decoupling senders and receivers, Google Cloud Pub/Sub allows developers to communicate between independently written applications.

See the Cloud Pub/Sub client library docs to learn how to use this Cloud Pub/Sub Client Library.

Creating a topic

With Pub/Sub you can create topics. A topic is a named resource to which messages are sent by publishers. Add the following imports at the top of your file:

import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.TopicAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;

Then, to create the topic, use the following code:

TopicName topic = TopicName.of("test-project", "test-topic");
try (TopicAdminClient topicAdminClient = TopicAdminClient.create()) {
  topicAdminClient.createTopic(topic);
}

Publishing messages

With Pub/Sub you can publish messages to a topic. Add the following import at the top of your file:

import com.google.api.core.ApiFuture;
import com.google.api.core.ApiFutureCallback;
import com.google.api.core.ApiFutures;
import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.Publisher;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PubsubMessage;

Then, to publish messages asynchronously, use the following code:

Publisher publisher = null;
try {
  publisher = Publisher.newBuilder(topic).build();
  ByteString data = ByteString.copyFromUtf8("my-message");
  PubsubMessage pubsubMessage = PubsubMessage.newBuilder().setData(data).build();
  ApiFuture<String> messageIdFuture = publisher.publish(pubsubMessage);
  ApiFutures.addCallback(messageIdFuture, new ApiFutureCallback<String>() {
    public void onSuccess(String messageId) {
      System.out.println("published with message id: " + messageId);
    }

    public void onFailure(Throwable t) {
      System.out.println("failed to publish: " + t);
    }
  }, MoreExecutors.directExecutor());
  //...
} finally {
  if (publisher != null) {
    publisher.shutdown();
    publisher.awaitTermination(1, TimeUnit.MINUTES);
  }
}

Creating a subscription

With Pub/Sub you can create subscriptions. A subscription represents the stream of messages from a single, specific topic. Add the following imports at the top of your file:

import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionAdminClient;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PushConfig;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;

Then, to create the subscription, use the following code:

TopicName topic = TopicName.of("test-project", "test-topic");
SubscriptionName subscription = SubscriptionName.of("test-project", "test-subscription");

try (SubscriptionAdminClient subscriptionAdminClient = SubscriptionAdminClient.create()) {
  subscriptionAdminClient.createSubscription(subscription, topic, PushConfig.getDefaultInstance(), 0);
}

Pulling messages

With Pub/Sub you can pull messages from a subscription. Add the following imports at the top of your file:

import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.AckReplyConsumer;
import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.MessageReceiver;
import com.google.cloud.pubsub.v1.Subscriber;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.PubsubMessage;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.SubscriptionName;
import com.google.pubsub.v1.TopicName;

Then, to pull messages asynchronously, use the following code:

SubscriptionName subscription = SubscriptionName.of("test-project", "test-subscription");

MessageReceiver receiver =
  new MessageReceiver() {
    @Override
    public void receiveMessage(PubsubMessage message, AckReplyConsumer consumer) {
      System.out.println("got message: " + message.getData().toStringUtf8());
      consumer.ack();
    }
  };

Subscriber subscriber = null;
try {
  subscriber = Subscriber.newBuilder(subscription.toString(), receiver).build();
  subscriber.addListener(
    new Subscriber.Listener() {
      @Override
      public void failed(Subscriber.State from, Throwable failure) {
        // Handle failure. This is called when the Subscriber encountered a fatal error and is shutting down.
        System.err.println(failure);
      }
    },
    MoreExecutors.directExecutor());
  subscriber.startAsync().awaitRunning();
  //...
} finally {
  if (subscriber != null) {
    subscriber.stopAsync();
  }
}

Complete source code

In CreateTopicAndPublishMessages.java and CreateSubscriptionAndConsumeMessages.java we put together all the code shown above into two programs. The programs assume that you are running on Compute Engine, App Engine Flexible or from your own desktop.

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Commit Avro Schema Example	source code
Commit Proto Schema Example	source code
Create Avro Schema Example	source code
Create Big Query Subscription Example	source code
Create Cloud Storage Subscription Example	source code
Create Proto Schema Example	source code
Create Pull Subscription Example	source code
Create Push Subscription Example	source code
Create Subscription With Dead Letter Policy Example	source code
Create Subscription With Exactly Once Delivery	source code
Create Subscription With Filtering	source code
Create Subscription With Ordering	source code
Create Topic Example	source code
Create Topic With Cloud Storage Ingestion Example	source code
Create Topic With Kinesis Ingestion Example	source code
Create Topic With Schema Example	source code
Create Topic With Schema Revisions Example	source code
Create Unwrapped Push Subscription Example	source code
Delete Schema Example	source code
Delete Schema Revision Example	source code
Delete Subscription Example	source code
Delete Topic Example	source code
Detach Subscription Example	source code
Get Schema Example	source code
Get Schema Revision Example	source code
Get Subscription Policy Example	source code
Get Topic Policy Example	source code
List Schema Revisions Example	source code
List Schemas Example	source code
List Subscriptions In Project Example	source code
List Subscriptions In Topic Example	source code
List Topics Example	source code
Open Telemetry Publisher Example	source code
Open Telemetry Subscriber Example	source code
Optimistic Subscribe Example	source code
Publish Avro Records Example	source code
Publish Protobuf Messages Example	source code
Publish With Batch Settings Example	source code
Publish With Concurrency Control Example	source code
Publish With Custom Attributes Example	source code
Publish With Error Handler Example	source code
Publish With Flow Control Example	source code
Publish With Grpc Compression Example	source code
Publish With Ordering Keys	source code
Publish With Retry Settings Example	source code
Publisher Example	source code
Receive Messages With Delivery Attempts Example	source code
Remove Dead Letter Policy Example	source code
Resume Publish With Ordering Keys	source code
Rollback Schema Example	source code
Set Subscription Policy Example	source code
Set Topic Policy Example	source code
Subscribe Async Example	source code
Subscribe Sync Example	source code
Subscribe Sync With Lease Example	source code
Subscribe With Avro Schema Example	source code
Subscribe With Avro Schema Revisions Example	source code
Subscribe With Concurrency Control Example	source code
Subscribe With Custom Attributes Example	source code
Subscribe With Error Listener Example	source code
Subscribe With Exactly Once Consumer With Response Example	source code
Subscribe With Flow Control Settings Example	source code
Subscribe With Proto Schema Example	source code
Test Subscription Permissions Example	source code
Test Topic Permissions Example	source code
Update Dead Letter Policy Example	source code
Update Push Configuration Example	source code
Update Topic Schema Example	source code
Update Topic Type Example	source code
Use Pub Sub Emulator Example	source code
State	source code
State Proto	source code

Troubleshooting

To get help, follow the instructions in the shared Troubleshooting document.

Transport

Cloud Pub/Sub uses both gRPC and HTTP/JSON for the transport layer.

Supported Java Versions

Java 8 or above is required for using this client.

Google's Java client libraries, Google Cloud Client Libraries and Google Cloud API Libraries, follow the Oracle Java SE support roadmap (see the Oracle Java SE Product Releases section).

For new development

In general, new feature development occurs with support for the lowest Java LTS version covered by Oracle's Premier Support (which typically lasts 5 years from initial General Availability). If the minimum required JVM for a given library is changed, it is accompanied by a semver major release.

Java 11 and (in September 2021) Java 17 are the best choices for new development.

Keeping production systems current

Google tests its client libraries with all current LTS versions covered by Oracle's Extended Support (which typically lasts 8 years from initial General Availability).

Legacy support

Google's client libraries support legacy versions of Java runtimes with long term stable libraries that don't receive feature updates on a best efforts basis as it may not be possible to backport all patches.

Google provides updates on a best efforts basis to apps that continue to use Java 7, though apps might need to upgrade to current versions of the library that supports their JVM.

Where to find specific information

The latest versions and the supported Java versions are identified on the individual GitHub repository github.com/GoogleAPIs/java-SERVICENAME and on google-cloud-java.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

Contributing

Contributions to this library are always welcome and highly encouraged.

See CONTRIBUTING for more information how to get started.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. See Code of Conduct for more information.

License

Apache 2.0 - See LICENSE for more information.

CI Status

Java Version	Status
Java 8
Java 8 OSX
Java 8 Windows
Java 11

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