Publish & subscribe - How to: Publish & subscribe to topics - 《Dapr v1.13 Documentation》

How to: Publish a message and subscribe to a topic
- Note
Set up the Pub/Sub component
Subscribe to topics
Publish a message
Message acknowledgement and retries
Demo video
Next steps

Learn how to send messages to a topic with one service and subscribe to that topic in another service

Now that you’ve learned what the Dapr pub/sub building block provides, learn how it can work in your service. The below code example loosely describes an application that processes orders with two services, each with Dapr sidecars:

A checkout service using Dapr to subscribe to the topic in the message queue.
An order processing service using Dapr to publish a message to RabbitMQ.

Dapr automatically wraps the user payload in a CloudEvents v1.0 compliant envelope, using Content-Type header value for datacontenttype attribute. Learn more about messages with CloudEvents.

The following example demonstrates how your applications publish and subscribe to a topic called orders.

Note

If you haven’t already, try out the pub/sub quickstart for a quick walk-through on how to use pub/sub.

Set up the Pub/Sub component

The first step is to set up the pub/sub component:

Self-Hosted (CLI)
Kubernetes

When you run dapr init, Dapr creates a default Redis pubsub.yaml and runs a Redis container on your local machine, located:

On Windows, under %UserProfile%\.dapr\components\pubsub.yaml
On Linux/MacOS, under ~/.dapr/components/pubsub.yaml

With the pubsub.yaml component, you can easily swap out underlying components without application code changes. In this example, RabbitMQ is used.

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: order-pub-sub
spec:
  type: pubsub.rabbitmq
  version: v1
  metadata:
  - name: host
    value: "amqp://localhost:5672"
  - name: durable
    value: "false"
  - name: deletedWhenUnused
    value: "false"
  - name: autoAck
    value: "false"
  - name: reconnectWait
    value: "0"
  - name: concurrency
    value: parallel
scopes:
  - orderprocessing
  - checkout

You can override this file with another pubsub component by creating a components directory (in this example, myComponents) containing the file and using the flag --resources-path with the dapr run CLI command.

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dapr run --app-id myapp --resources-path ./myComponents -- dotnet run

dapr run --app-id myapp --resources-path ./myComponents -- mvn spring-boot:run

dapr run --app-id myapp --resources-path ./myComponents -- python3 app.py

dapr run --app-id myapp --resources-path ./myComponents -- go run app.go

dapr run --app-id myapp --resources-path ./myComponents -- npm start

To deploy this into a Kubernetes cluster, fill in the metadata connection details of the pub/sub component in the YAML below, save as pubsub.yaml, and run kubectl apply -f pubsub.yaml.

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: order-pub-sub
spec:
  type: pubsub.rabbitmq
  version: v1
  metadata:
  - name: connectionString
    value: "amqp://localhost:5672"
  - name: protocol
    value: amqp  
  - name: hostname
    value: localhost 
  - name: username
    value: username
  - name: password
    value: password 
  - name: durable
    value: "false"
  - name: deletedWhenUnused
    value: "false"
  - name: autoAck
    value: "false"
  - name: reconnectWait
    value: "0"
  - name: concurrency
    value: parallel
scopes:
  - orderprocessing
  - checkout

Dapr provides two methods by which you can subscribe to topics:

Declaratively, where subscriptions are defined in an external file.
Programmatically, where subscriptions are defined in user code.

Learn more in the declarative and programmatic subscriptions doc. This example demonstrates a declarative subscription.

Create a file named subscription.yaml and paste the following:

apiVersion: dapr.io/v2alpha1
kind: Subscription
metadata:
  name: order-pub-sub
spec:
  topic: orders
  routes: 
    default: /checkout
  pubsubname: order-pub-sub
scopes:
- orderprocessing
- checkout

The example above shows an event subscription to topic orders, for the pubsub component order-pub-sub.

The route field tells Dapr to send all topic messages to the /checkout endpoint in the app.
The scopes field enables this subscription for apps with IDs orderprocessing and checkout.

Place subscription.yaml in the same directory as your pubsub.yaml component. When Dapr starts up, it loads subscriptions along with the components.

Below are code examples that leverage Dapr SDKs to subscribe to the topic you defined in subscription.yaml.

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//dependencies 
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Dapr;
using Dapr.Client;
//code
namespace CheckoutService.controller
{
    [ApiController]
    public class CheckoutServiceController : Controller
    {
         //Subscribe to a topic 
        [Topic("order-pub-sub", "orders")]
        [HttpPost("checkout")]
        public void getCheckout([FromBody] int orderId)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Subscriber received : " + orderId);
        }
    }
}

Navigate to the directory containing the above code, then run the following command to launch both a Dapr sidecar and the subscriber application:

dapr run --app-id checkout --app-port 6002 --dapr-http-port 3602 --dapr-grpc-port 60002 --app-protocol https dotnet run

//dependencies
import io.dapr.Topic;
import io.dapr.client.domain.CloudEvent;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import reactor.core.publisher.Mono;
//code
@RestController
public class CheckoutServiceController {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CheckoutServiceController.class);
     //Subscribe to a topic
    @Topic(name = "orders", pubsubName = "order-pub-sub")
    @PostMapping(path = "/checkout")
    public Mono<Void> getCheckout(@RequestBody(required = false) CloudEvent<String> cloudEvent) {
        return Mono.fromRunnable(() -> {
            try {
                log.info("Subscriber received: " + cloudEvent.getData());
            } catch (Exception e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        });
    }
}

Navigate to the directory containing the above code, then run the following command to launch both a Dapr sidecar and the subscriber application:

dapr run --app-id checkout --app-port 6002 --dapr-http-port 3602 --dapr-grpc-port 60002 mvn spring-boot:run

#dependencies
from cloudevents.sdk.event import v1
from dapr.ext.grpc import App
import logging
import json
#code
app = App()
logging.basicConfig(level = logging.INFO)
#Subscribe to a topic 
@app.subscribe(pubsub_name='order-pub-sub', topic='orders')
def mytopic(event: v1.Event) -> None:
    data = json.loads(event.Data())
    logging.info('Subscriber received: ' + str(data))
app.run(6002)

Navigate to the directory containing the above code, then run the following command to launch both a Dapr sidecar and the subscriber application:

dapr run --app-id checkout --app-port 6002 --dapr-http-port 3602 --app-protocol grpc -- python3 CheckoutService.py

//dependencies
import (
    "log"
    "net/http"
    "context"
    "github.com/dapr/go-sdk/service/common"
    daprd "github.com/dapr/go-sdk/service/http"
)
//code
var sub = &common.Subscription{
    PubsubName: "order-pub-sub",
    Topic:      "orders",
    Route:      "/checkout",
}
func main() {
    s := daprd.NewService(":6002")
   //Subscribe to a topic
    if err := s.AddTopicEventHandler(sub, eventHandler); err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("error adding topic subscription: %v", err)
    }
    if err := s.Start(); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed {
        log.Fatalf("error listenning: %v", err)
    }
}
func eventHandler(ctx context.Context, e *common.TopicEvent) (retry bool, err error) {
    log.Printf("Subscriber received: %s", e.Data)
    return false, nil
}

Navigate to the directory containing the above code, then run the following command to launch both a Dapr sidecar and the subscriber application:

dapr run --app-id checkout --app-port 6002 --dapr-http-port 3602 --dapr-grpc-port 60002 go run CheckoutService.go

//dependencies
import { DaprServer, CommunicationProtocolEnum } from '@dapr/dapr'; 
//code
const daprHost = "127.0.0.1"; 
const serverHost = "127.0.0.1";
const serverPort = "6002"; 
start().catch((e) => {
    console.error(e);
    process.exit(1);
});
async function start(orderId) {
    const server = new DaprServer({
        serverHost,
        serverPort,
        communicationProtocol: CommunicationProtocolEnum.HTTP,
        clientOptions: {
          daprHost,
          daprPort: process.env.DAPR_HTTP_PORT,
        },
    });
    //Subscribe to a topic
    await server.pubsub.subscribe("order-pub-sub", "orders", async (orderId) => {
        console.log(`Subscriber received: ${JSON.stringify(orderId)}`)
    });
    await server.start();
}

Navigate to the directory containing the above code, then run the following command to launch both a Dapr sidecar and the subscriber application:

dapr run --app-id checkout --app-port 6002 --dapr-http-port 3602 --dapr-grpc-port 60002 npm start

Publish a message

Start an instance of Dapr with an app-id called orderprocessing:

dapr run --app-id orderprocessing --dapr-http-port 3601

Then publish a message to the orders topic:

Dapr CLI
HTTP API (Bash)
HTTP API (PowerShell)

dapr publish --publish-app-id orderprocessing --pubsub order-pub-sub --topic orders --data '{"orderId": "100"}'

curl -X POST http://localhost:3601/v1.0/publish/order-pub-sub/orders -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"orderId": "100"}'

Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -ContentType 'application/json' -Body '{"orderId": "100"}' -Uri 'http://localhost:3601/v1.0/publish/order-pub-sub/orders'

Below are code examples that leverage Dapr SDKs to publish a topic.

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//dependencies
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Dapr.Client;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using System.Threading;
//code
namespace EventService
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
           string PUBSUB_NAME = "order-pub-sub";
           string TOPIC_NAME = "orders";
           while(true) {
                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
                Random random = new Random();
                int orderId = random.Next(1,1000);
                CancellationTokenSource source = new CancellationTokenSource();
                CancellationToken cancellationToken = source.Token;
                using var client = new DaprClientBuilder().Build();
                //Using Dapr SDK to publish a topic
                await client.PublishEventAsync(PUBSUB_NAME, TOPIC_NAME, orderId, cancellationToken);
                Console.WriteLine("Published data: " + orderId);
                }
        }
    }
}