Gufo Liftbridge is an async library. In our case
we should run the client from our synchronous script,
so we need to import asyncio to use asyncio.run().
Liftbridge is the dynamic cluster, synchronized over
Raft protocol. Cluster members may enter and leave and
the client uses one or more cluster members as a bootstrap
to recover an actual topology. These bootstrap
members are called seeds and are defined as a list
of the strings in the host:port format. For our
example, we consider the Liftbridge is running
locally at the 127.0.0.1:9292. Take note, ever we have
one seed, we must define it as a list.
We need an instance of the client. The instance may be used
directly or operated as an async context manager
with the async with clause. When used as a context manager,
the client automatically closes all connections on the exit of context,
so its lifetime is defined explicitly. LiftbridgeClient requires
a list of seeds to connect the cluster, so we passed the BROKERS list.
The client is highly configurable, refer to the
LiftbridgeClient reference for the detailed
explanations.
The publish() function is used to publish one message immediately.
The client does not enforce any specific data format and leaves
it to the application. The only requirement is to pass the message
value as the bytes type. In our example, we construct the string
as the message and we have to encode it to the bytes manually.
Then we must specify the stream and partition to publish, we use
partition 0 of stream test in our example.
publish() is the async function and must be awaited. The function may accept
additional parameters, so refer to the
publish() referece for the detailed explanations.