An async NATS client library for the Rust programming language.
Note: Currently, rants
requires a nightly version of the Rust compiler due to its use of async
/await
syntax, but it should work on stable soon!
The client aims to be an ergonomic, yet thin, wrapper over the NATS client protocol. The easiest way to learn to use the client is by reading the NATS client protocol documentation. The main entry point into the library's API is the Client
struct.
use futures::stream::StreamExt;
use rants::Client;
use tokio::runtime::Runtime;
let main_future = async {
// A NATS server must be running on `127.0.0.1:4222`
let address = "127.0.0.1:4222".parse().unwrap();
let client = Client::new(vec![address]);
// Configure the client to receive messages even if it sent the message
client.connect_mut().await.echo(true);
// Connect to the server
client.connect().await;
// Create a new subject called "test"
let subject = "test".parse().unwrap();
// Subscribe to the "test" subject
let (_, mut subscription) = client.subscribe(&subject, 1024).await.unwrap();
// Publish a message to the "test" subject
client
.publish(&subject, b"This is a message!")
.await
.unwrap();
// Read a message from the subscription
let message = subscription.next().await.unwrap();
let message = String::from_utf8(message.into_payload()).unwrap();
println!("Received '{}'", message);
// Disconnect from the server
client.disconnect().await;
};
let runtime = Runtime::new().expect("to create Runtime");
runtime.spawn(main_future);
runtime.shutdown_on_idle();
The integration test suite requires the NATS server to be reachable at 127.0.0.1:4222
:
> cargo test
The env_logger
crate is used in integration test. To enable it and run a single test run:
> RUST_LOG=rants=trace cargo test ping_pong
- Increase test coverage
- TLS support
- Explore automatically disconnecting the client when it is dropped
- Support improved request-reply implementation
- Benchmarks and performance