// This file will be moved to a new location. // Specification of the Pubsub API. syntax = "proto2"; import "examples/tips/empty.proto"; import "examples/tips/label.proto"; package tech.pubsub; // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Overview of the Pubsub API // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // This file describes an API for a Pubsub system. This system provides a // reliable many-to-many communication mechanism between independently written // publishers and subscribers where the publisher publishes messages to "topics" // and each subscriber creates a "subscription" and consumes messages from it. // // (a) The pubsub system maintains bindings between topics and subscriptions. // (b) A publisher publishes messages into a topic. // (c) The pubsub system delivers messages from topics into relevant // subscriptions. // (d) A subscriber receives pending messages from its subscription and // acknowledges or nacks each one to the pubsub system. // (e) The pubsub system removes acknowledged messages from that subscription. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Data Model // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The data model consists of the following: // // * Topic: A topic is a resource to which messages are published by publishers. // Topics are named, and the name of the topic is unique within the pubsub // system. // // * Subscription: A subscription records the subscriber's interest in a topic. // It can optionally include a query to select a subset of interesting // messages. The pubsub system maintains a logical cursor tracking the // matching messages which still need to be delivered and acked so that // they can retried as needed. The set of messages that have not been // acknowledged is called the subscription backlog. // // * Message: A message is a unit of data that flows in the system. It contains // opaque data from the publisher along with its labels. // // * Message Labels (optional): A set of opaque key, value pairs assigned // by the publisher which the subscriber can use for filtering out messages // in the topic. For example, a label with key "foo.com/device_type" and // value "mobile" may be added for messages that are only relevant for a // mobile subscriber; a subscriber on a phone may decide to create a // subscription only for messages that have this label. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Publisher Flow // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // A publisher publishes messages to the topic using the Publish request: // // PubsubMessage message; // message.set_data("...."); // Label label; // label.set_key("foo.com/key1"); // label.set_str_value("value1"); // message.add_label(label); // PublishRequest request; // request.set_topic("topicName"); // request.set_message(message); // PublisherService.Publish(request); // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Subscriber Flow // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The subscriber part of the API is richer than the publisher part and has a // number of concepts w.r.t. subscription creation and monitoring: // // (1) A subscriber creates a subscription using the CreateSubscription call. // It may specify an optional "query" to indicate that it wants to receive // only messages with a certain set of labels using the label query syntax. // It may also specify an optional truncation policy to indicate when old // messages from the subcription can be removed. // // (2) A subscriber receives messages in one of two ways: via push or pull. // // (a) To receive messages via push, the PushConfig field must be specified in // the Subscription parameter when creating a subscription. The PushConfig // specifies an endpoint at which the subscriber must expose the // PushEndpointService. Messages are received via the HandlePubsubEvent // method. The push subscriber responds to the HandlePubsubEvent method // with a result code that indicates one of three things: Ack (the message // has been successfully processed and the Pubsub system may delete it), // Nack (the message has been rejected, the Pubsub system should resend it // at a later time), or Push-Back (this is a Nack with the additional // semantics that the subscriber is overloaded and the pubsub system should // back off on the rate at which it is invoking HandlePubsubEvent). The // endpoint may be a load balancer for better scalability. // // (b) To receive messages via pull a subscriber calls the Pull method on the // SubscriberService to get messages from the subscription. For each // individual message, the subscriber may use the ack_id received in the // PullResponse to Ack the message, Nack the message, or modify the ack // deadline with ModifyAckDeadline. See the // Subscription.ack_deadline_seconds field documentation for details on the // ack deadline behavior. // // Note: Messages may be consumed in parallel by multiple subscribers making // Pull calls to the same subscription; this will result in the set of // messages from the subscription being shared and each subscriber // receiving a subset of the messages. // // (4) The subscriber can explicitly truncate the current subscription. // // (5) "Truncated" events are delivered when a subscription is // truncated, whether due to the subscription's truncation policy // or an explicit request from the subscriber. // // Subscription creation: // // Subscription subscription; // subscription.set_topic("topicName"); // subscription.set_name("subscriptionName"); // subscription.push_config().set_push_endpoint("machinename:8888"); // SubscriberService.CreateSubscription(subscription); // // Consuming messages via push: // // TODO(eschapira): Add HTTP push example. // // The port 'machinename:8888' must be bound to a stubby server that implements // the PushEndpointService with the following method: // // int HandlePubsubEvent(PubsubEvent event) { // if (event.subscription().equals("subscriptionName")) { // if (event.has_message()) { // Process(event.message().data()); // } else if (event.truncated()) { // ProcessTruncatedEvent(); // } // } // return OK; // This return code implies an acknowledgment // } // // Consuming messages via pull: // // The subscription must be created without setting the push_config field. // // PullRequest pull_request; // pull_request.set_subscription("subscriptionName"); // pull_request.set_return_immediately(false); // while (true) { // PullResponse pull_response; // if (SubscriberService.Pull(pull_request, pull_response) == OK) { // PubsubEvent event = pull_response.pubsub_event(); // if (event.has_message()) { // Process(event.message().data()); // } else if (event.truncated()) { // ProcessTruncatedEvent(); // } // AcknowledgeRequest ack_request; // ackRequest.set_subscription("subscriptionName"); // ackRequest.set_ack_id(pull_response.ack_id()); // SubscriberService.Acknowledge(ack_request); // } // } // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Reliability Semantics // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // When a subscriber successfully creates a subscription using // Subscriber.CreateSubscription, it establishes a "subscription point" with // respect to that subscription - the subscriber is guaranteed to receive any // message published after this subscription point that matches the // subscription's query. Note that messages published before the Subscription // point may or may not be delivered. // // If the system truncates the subscription according to the specified // truncation policy, the system delivers a subscription status event with the // "truncated" field set to true. We refer to such events as "truncation // events". A truncation event: // // * Informs the subscriber that part of the subscription messages have been // discarded. The subscriber may want to recover from the message loss, e.g., // by resyncing its state with its backend. // * Establishes a new subscription point, i.e., the subscriber is guaranteed to // receive all changes published after the trunction event is received (or // until another truncation event is received). // // Note that messages are not delivered in any particular order by the pubsub // system. Furthermore, the system guarantees at-least-once delivery // of each message or truncation events until acked. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Deletion // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Both topics and subscriptions may be deleted. Deletion of a topic implies // deletion of all attached subscriptions. // // When a subscription is deleted directly by calling DeleteSubscription, all // messages are immediately dropped. If it is a pull subscriber, future pull // requests will return NOT_FOUND. // // When a topic is deleted all corresponding subscriptions are immediately // deleted, and subscribers experience the same behavior as directly deleting // the subscription. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The Publisher service and its protos. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The service that an application uses to manipulate topics, and to send // messages to a topic. service PublisherService { // Creates the given topic with the given name. rpc CreateTopic(Topic) returns (Topic) { } // Adds a message to the topic. Returns NOT_FOUND if the topic does not // exist. // (-- For different error code values returned via Stubby, see // util/task/codes.proto. --) rpc Publish(PublishRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } // Adds one or more messages to the topic. Returns NOT_FOUND if the topic does // not exist. rpc PublishBatch(PublishBatchRequest) returns (PublishBatchResponse) { } // Gets the configuration of a topic. Since the topic only has the name // attribute, this method is only useful to check the existence of a topic. // If other attributes are added in the future, they will be returned here. rpc GetTopic(GetTopicRequest) returns (Topic) { } // Lists matching topics. rpc ListTopics(ListTopicsRequest) returns (ListTopicsResponse) { } // Deletes the topic with the given name. All subscriptions to this topic // are also deleted. Returns NOT_FOUND if the topic does not exist. // After a topic is deleted, a new topic may be created with the same name. rpc DeleteTopic(DeleteTopicRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } } // A topic resource. message Topic { // Name of the topic. optional string name = 1; } // A message data and its labels. message PubsubMessage { // The message payload. optional bytes data = 1; // Optional list of labels for this message. Keys in this collection must // be unique. //(-- TODO(eschapira): Define how key namespace may be scoped to the topic.--) repeated tech.label.Label label = 2; // ID of this message assigned by the server at publication time. Guaranteed // to be unique within the topic. This value may be read by a subscriber // that receives a PubsubMessage via a Pull call or a push delivery. It must // not be populated by a publisher in a Publish call. optional string message_id = 3; } // Request for the GetTopic method. message GetTopicRequest { // The name of the topic to get. optional string topic = 1; } // Request for the Publish method. message PublishRequest { // The message in the request will be published on this topic. optional string topic = 1; // The message to publish. optional PubsubMessage message = 2; } // Request for the PublishBatch method. message PublishBatchRequest { // The messages in the request will be published on this topic. optional string topic = 1; // The messages to publish. repeated PubsubMessage messages = 2; } // Response for the PublishBatch method. message PublishBatchResponse { // The server-assigned ID of each published message, in the same order as // the messages in the request. IDs are guaranteed to be unique within // the topic. repeated string message_ids = 1; } // Request for the ListTopics method. message ListTopicsRequest { // A valid label query expression. // (-- Which labels are required or supported is implementation-specific. --) optional string query = 1; // Maximum number of topics to return. // (-- If not specified or <= 0, the implementation will select a reasonable // value. --) optional int32 max_results = 2; // The value obtained in the last ListTopicsResponse // for continuation. optional string page_token = 3; } // Response for the ListTopics method. message ListTopicsResponse { // The resulting topics. repeated Topic topic = 1; // If not empty, indicates that there are more topics that match the request, // and this value should be passed to the next ListTopicsRequest // to continue. optional string next_page_token = 2; } // Request for the Delete method. message DeleteTopicRequest { // Name of the topic to delete. optional string topic = 1; } // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The Subscriber service and its protos. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The service that an application uses to manipulate subscriptions and to // consume messages from a subscription via the pull method. service SubscriberService { // Creates a subscription on a given topic for a given subscriber. // If the subscription already exists, returns ALREADY_EXISTS. // If the corresponding topic doesn't exist, returns NOT_FOUND. // // If the name is not provided in the request, the server will assign a random // name for this subscription on the same project as the topic. rpc CreateSubscription(Subscription) returns (Subscription) { } // Gets the configuration details of a subscription. rpc GetSubscription(GetSubscriptionRequest) returns (Subscription) { } // Lists matching subscriptions. rpc ListSubscriptions(ListSubscriptionsRequest) returns (ListSubscriptionsResponse) { } // Deletes an existing subscription. All pending messages in the subscription // are immediately dropped. Calls to Pull after deletion will return // NOT_FOUND. rpc DeleteSubscription(DeleteSubscriptionRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } // Removes all the pending messages in the subscription and releases the // storage associated with them. Results in a truncation event to be sent to // the subscriber. Messages added after this call returns are stored in the // subscription as before. rpc TruncateSubscription(TruncateSubscriptionRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } // // Push subscriber calls. // // Modifies the PushConfig for a specified subscription. // This method can be used to suspend the flow of messages to an endpoint // by clearing the PushConfig field in the request. Messages // will be accumulated for delivery even if no push configuration is // defined or while the configuration is modified. rpc ModifyPushConfig(ModifyPushConfigRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } // // Pull Subscriber calls // // Pulls a single message from the server. // If return_immediately is true, and no messages are available in the // subscription, this method returns FAILED_PRECONDITION. The system is free // to return an UNAVAILABLE error if no messages are available in a // reasonable amount of time (to reduce system load). rpc Pull(PullRequest) returns (PullResponse) { } // Pulls messages from the server. Returns an empty list if there are no // messages available in the backlog. The system is free to return UNAVAILABLE // if there are too many pull requests outstanding for the given subscription. rpc PullBatch(PullBatchRequest) returns (PullBatchResponse) { } // Modifies the Ack deadline for a message received from a pull request. rpc ModifyAckDeadline(ModifyAckDeadlineRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } // Acknowledges a particular received message: the Pub/Sub system can remove // the given message from the subscription. Acknowledging a message whose // Ack deadline has expired may succeed, but the message could have been // already redelivered. Acknowledging a message more than once will not // result in an error. This is only used for messages received via pull. rpc Acknowledge(AcknowledgeRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } // Refuses processing a particular received message. The system will // redeliver this message to some consumer of the subscription at some // future time. This is only used for messages received via pull. rpc Nack(NackRequest) returns (proto2.Empty) { } } // A subscription resource. message Subscription { // Name of the subscription. optional string name = 1; // The name of the topic from which this subscription is receiving messages. optional string topic = 2; // If query is non-empty, only messages on the subscriber's // topic whose labels match the query will be returned. Otherwise all // messages on the topic will be returned. // (-- The query syntax is described in tech/label/proto/label_query.proto --) optional string query = 3; // The subscriber may specify requirements for truncating unacknowledged // subscription entries. The system will honor the // CreateSubscription request only if it can meet these // requirements. If this field is not specified, messages are never truncated // by the system. optional TruncationPolicy truncation_policy = 4; // Specifies which messages can be truncated by the system. message TruncationPolicy { oneof policy { // If max_bytes is specified, the system is allowed to drop // old messages to keep the combined size of stored messages under // max_bytes. This is a hint; the system may keep more than // this many bytes, but will make a best effort to keep the size from // growing much beyond this parameter. int64 max_bytes = 1; // If max_age_seconds is specified, the system is allowed to // drop messages that have been stored for at least this many seconds. // This is a hint; the system may keep these messages, but will make a // best effort to remove them when their maximum age is reached. int64 max_age_seconds = 2; } } // If push delivery is used with this subscription, this field is // used to configure it. optional PushConfig push_config = 5; // For either push or pull delivery, the value is the maximum time after a // subscriber receives a message before the subscriber should acknowledge or // Nack the message. If the Ack deadline for a message passes without an // Ack or a Nack, the Pub/Sub system will eventually redeliver the message. // If a subscriber acknowledges after the deadline, the Pub/Sub system may // accept the Ack, but it is possible that the message has been already // delivered again. Multiple Acks to the message are allowed and will // succeed. // // For push delivery, this value is used to set the request timeout for // the call to the push endpoint. // // For pull delivery, this value is used as the initial value for the Ack // deadline. It may be overridden for a specific pull request (message) with // ModifyAckDeadline. // While a message is outstanding (i.e. it has been delivered to a pull // subscriber and the subscriber has not yet Acked or Nacked), the Pub/Sub // system will not deliver that message to another pull subscriber // (on a best-effort basis). optional int32 ack_deadline_seconds = 6; // If this parameter is set to n, the system is allowed to (but not required // to) delete the subscription when at least n seconds have elapsed since the // client presence was detected. (Presence is detected through any // interaction using the subscription ID, including Pull(), Get(), or // acknowledging a message.) // // If this parameter is not set, the subscription will stay live until // explicitly deleted. // // Clients can detect such garbage collection when a Get call or a Pull call // (for pull subscribers only) returns NOT_FOUND. optional int64 garbage_collect_seconds = 7; } // Configuration for a push delivery endpoint. message PushConfig { // A URL locating the endpoint to which messages should be pushed. // For example, a Webhook endpoint might use "https://example.com/push". // (-- An Android application might use "gcm:", where is a // GCM registration id allocated for pushing messages to the application. --) optional string push_endpoint = 1; } // An event indicating a received message or truncation event. message PubsubEvent { // The subscription that received the event. optional string subscription = 1; oneof type { // A received message. PubsubMessage message = 2; // Indicates that this subscription has been truncated. bool truncated = 3; // Indicates that this subscription has been deleted. (Note that pull // subscribers will always receive NOT_FOUND in response in their pull // request on the subscription, rather than seeing this boolean.) bool deleted = 4; } } // Request for the GetSubscription method. message GetSubscriptionRequest { // The name of the subscription to get. optional string subscription = 1; } // Request for the ListSubscriptions method. message ListSubscriptionsRequest { // A valid label query expression. // (-- Which labels are required or supported is implementation-specific. // TODO(eschapira): This method must support to query by topic. We must // define the key URI for the "topic" label. --) optional string query = 1; // Maximum number of subscriptions to return. // (-- If not specified or <= 0, the implementation will select a reasonable // value. --) optional int32 max_results = 3; // The value obtained in the last ListSubscriptionsResponse // for continuation. optional string page_token = 4; } // Response for the ListSubscriptions method. message ListSubscriptionsResponse { // The subscriptions that match the request. repeated Subscription subscription = 1; // If not empty, indicates that there are more subscriptions that match the // request and this value should be passed to the next // ListSubscriptionsRequest to continue. optional string next_page_token = 2; } // Request for the TruncateSubscription method. message TruncateSubscriptionRequest { // The subscription that is being truncated. optional string subscription = 1; } // Request for the DeleteSubscription method. message DeleteSubscriptionRequest { // The subscription to delete. optional string subscription = 1; } // Request for the ModifyPushConfig method. message ModifyPushConfigRequest { // The name of the subscription. optional string subscription = 1; // An empty push_config indicates that the Pub/Sub system should // pause pushing messages from the given subscription. optional PushConfig push_config = 2; } // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The protos used by a pull subscriber. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Request for the Pull method. message PullRequest { // The subscription from which a message should be pulled. optional string subscription = 1; // If this is specified as true the system will respond immediately even if // it is not able to return a message in the Pull response. Otherwise the // system is allowed to wait until at least one message is available rather // than returning FAILED_PRECONDITION. The client may cancel the request if // it does not wish to wait any longer for the response. optional bool return_immediately = 2; } // Either a PubsubMessage or a truncation event. One of these two // must be populated. message PullResponse { // This ID must be used to acknowledge the received event or message. optional string ack_id = 1; // A pubsub message or truncation event. optional PubsubEvent pubsub_event = 2; } // Request for the PullBatch method. message PullBatchRequest { // The subscription from which messages should be pulled. optional string subscription = 1; // If this is specified as true the system will respond immediately even if // it is not able to return a message in the Pull response. Otherwise the // system is allowed to wait until at least one message is available rather // than returning no messages. The client may cancel the request if it does // not wish to wait any longer for the response. optional bool return_immediately = 2; // The maximum number of PubsubEvents returned for this request. The Pub/Sub // system may return fewer than the number of events specified. optional int32 max_events = 3; } // Response for the PullBatch method. message PullBatchResponse { // Received Pub/Sub messages or status events. The Pub/Sub system will return // zero messages if there are no more messages available in the backlog. The // Pub/Sub system may return fewer than the max_events requested even if // there are more messages available in the backlog. repeated PullResponse pull_responses = 2; } // Request for the ModifyAckDeadline method. message ModifyAckDeadlineRequest { // The name of the subscription from which messages are being pulled. optional string subscription = 1; // The acknowledgment ID. optional string ack_id = 2; // The new Ack deadline. Must be >= 0. optional int32 ack_deadline_seconds = 3; } // Request for the Acknowledge method. message AcknowledgeRequest { // The subscription whose message is being acknowledged. optional string subscription = 1; // The acknowledgment ID for the message being acknowledged. This was // returned by the Pub/Sub system in the Pull response. repeated string ack_id = 2; } // Request for the Nack method. message NackRequest { // The subscription whose message is being Nacked. optional string subscription = 1; // The acknowledgment ID for the message being refused. This was returned by // the Pub/Sub system in the Pull response. repeated string ack_id = 2; } // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The service and protos used by a push subscriber. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The service that a subscriber uses to handle messages sent via push // delivery. // This service is not currently exported for HTTP clients. // TODO(eschapira): Explain HTTP subscribers. service PushEndpointService { // Sends a PubsubMessage or a subscription status event to a // push endpoint. // The push endpoint responds with an empty message and a code from // util/task/codes.proto. The following codes have a particular meaning to the // Pub/Sub system: // OK - This is interpreted by Pub/Sub as Ack. // ABORTED - This is intepreted by Pub/Sub as a Nack, without implying // pushback for congestion control. The Pub/Sub system will // retry this message at a later time. // UNAVAILABLE - This is intepreted by Pub/Sub as a Nack, with the additional // semantics of push-back. The Pub/Sub system will use an AIMD // congestion control algorithm to backoff the rate of sending // messages from this subscription. // Any other code, or a failure to respond, will be interpreted in the same // way as ABORTED; i.e. the system will retry the message at a later time to // ensure reliable delivery. rpc HandlePubsubEvent(PubsubEvent) returns (proto2.Empty); }