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examples/go/README.md

Go examples for proton

There are 3 Go packages for proton:

  • qpid.apache.org/electron: Concurrent, procedural API for messaging clients and servers.
  • qpid.apache.org/proton: Direct access to the event-driven, concurrent-unsafe proton library.
  • qpid.apache.org/amqp: Convert AMQP messages and data to and from Go data types.

proton and electron are alternative APIs for sending messages. proton is a direct wrapping of the concurrent-unsafe, event-driven C proton API. electron is a procedural, concurrent-safe interface that may be more convenient and familiar for Go programmers. The examples proton/broker.go and electron/broker.go give an illustration of how the APIs differ.

Example programs

electron

  • receive.go receive from many connections concurrently.
  • send.go send to many connections concurrently.
  • broker.go a simple broker using the electron API

proton

  • broker.go a simple broker using the proton API

Using the Go packages

If you have the proton C library and headers installed you can get the latest go packages with

go get qpid.apache.org/electron

If proton is installed in a non-standard place (other than /usr or /usr/local) you can set these environment variables before go get, for example:

export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/<my-proton>/lib[64]"
export CGO_CFLAGS="-I/<my-proton>/include"
go get qpid.apache.org/electron

If you have a proton build you don't need to go get, you can set your GOPATH to use the binding from the checkout with:

source <path-to-proton>/config.sh

Once you are set up, the go tools will work as normal. You can see documentation in your web browser at localhost:6060 by running:

godoc -http=:6060

Running the examples

You can run the examples directly from source like this:

go run <program>.go

This is a little slow (a couple of seconds) as it compiles the program and runs it in one step. You can compile the program first and then run the executable to avoid the delay:

go build <program>.go
./<program>

All the examples take a -h flag to show usage information, and the comments in the example source have more details.

First start the broker (the optional -debug flag will print extra information about what the broker is doing)

go run broker.go -debug

Send messages concurrently to queues “foo” and “bar”, 10 messages to each queue:

go run send.go -count 10 localhost:/foo localhost:/bar

Receive messages concurrently from “foo” and “bar”. Note -count 20 for 10 messages each on 2 queues:

go run receive.go -count 20 localhost:/foo localhost:/bar

The broker and clients use the standard AMQP port (5672) on the local host by default, to use a different address use the -addr host:port flag.

If you have the full proton repository checked out you can try try using the python broker with Go clients:

python ../python/broker.py

Or use the Go broker and the python clients:

python ../python/simple_send.py
python ../python/simple_recv.py

A tale of two brokers.

The proton and electron packages provide two alternate APIs for AMQP applications. See the proton Go README for a discussion of why there are two APIs.

The examples proton/broker.go and electron/broker.go both implement the same simple broker-like functionality using each of the two APIs. They both handle multiple connections concurrently and store messages on bounded queues implemented by Go channels.

However the electron/broker is less than half as long as the proton/broker illustrating why it is better suited for most Go applications.

proton/broker must explicitly handle proton events, which are processed in a single goroutine per connection since proton is not concurrent safe. Each connection uses channels to exchange messages between the event-handling goroutine and the shared queues that are accessible to all connections. Sending messages is particularly tricky since we must monitor the queue for available messages and the sending link for available credit in order to send messages.

electron/broker takes advantage of the electron package, which hides all the event handling and passing of messages between goroutines beind behind straightforward interfaces for sending and receiving messages. The electron broker can implement links as simple goroutines that loop popping messages from a queue and sending them or receiving messages and pushing them to a queue.