Google Pubsub

Since Camel 2.19

The Google Pubsub component provides access to Cloud Pub/Sub Infrastructure via the Google Client Services API.

The current implementation does not use gRPC.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-google-pubsub</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

URI Format

The Google Pubsub Component uses the following URI format:

google-pubsub://project-id:destinationName?[options]

Destination Name can be either a topic or a subscription name.

Options

The Google Pubsub component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
connectionFactory (common)	Sets the connection factory to use: provides the ability to explicitly manage connection credentials: - the path to the key file - the Service Account Key / Email pair		GooglePubsubConnection Factory
resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)	Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.	true	boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

connectionFactory (common)

Sets the connection factory to use: provides the ability to explicitly manage connection credentials: - the path to the key file - the Service Account Key / Email pair

GooglePubsubConnection Factory

resolveProperty Placeholders (advanced)

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

boolean

The Google Pubsub endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

google-pubsub:projectId:destinationName

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (2 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
projectId	Required Project Id		String
destinationName	Required Destination Name		String

Name

Description

Default

Type

projectId

Required Project Id

String

destinationName

Required Destination Name

String

Query Parameters (9 parameters):

Name	Description	Default	Type
ackMode (common)	AUTO = exchange gets ack’ed/nack’ed on completion. NONE = downstream process has to ack/nack explicitly	AUTO	AckMode
concurrentConsumers (common)	The number of parallel streams consuming from the subscription	1	Integer
connectionFactory (common)	ConnectionFactory to obtain connection to PubSub Service. If non provided the default will be used.		GooglePubsubConnection Factory
loggerId (common)	Logger ID to use when a match to the parent route required		String
maxMessagesPerPoll (common)	The max number of messages to receive from the server in a single API call	1	Integer
bridgeErrorHandler (consumer)	Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.	false	boolean
exceptionHandler (consumer)	To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this option is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.		ExceptionHandler
exchangePattern (consumer)	Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.		ExchangePattern
synchronous (advanced)	Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).	false	boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

ackMode (common)

AUTO = exchange gets ack’ed/nack’ed on completion. NONE = downstream process has to ack/nack explicitly

AUTO

AckMode

concurrentConsumers (common)

The number of parallel streams consuming from the subscription

Integer

connectionFactory (common)

ConnectionFactory to obtain connection to PubSub Service. If non provided the default will be used.

GooglePubsubConnection Factory

loggerId (common)

Logger ID to use when a match to the parent route required

String

maxMessagesPerPoll (common)

The max number of messages to receive from the server in a single API call

Integer

bridgeErrorHandler (consumer)

Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

false

boolean

exceptionHandler (consumer)

To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this option is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored.

ExceptionHandler

exchangePattern (consumer)

Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange.

ExchangePattern

synchronous (advanced)

Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used, or Camel is allowed to use asynchronous processing (if supported).

false

boolean

Spring Boot Auto-Configuration

When using Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
  <artifactId>camel-google-pubsub-starter</artifactId>
  <version>x.x.x</version>
  <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

The component supports 2 options, which are listed below.

Name	Description	Default	Type
camel.component.google-pubsub.enabled	Enable google-pubsub component	true	Boolean
camel.component.google-pubsub.resolve-property-placeholders	Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.	true	Boolean

Name

Description

Default

Type

camel.component.google-pubsub.enabled

Enable google-pubsub component

true

Boolean

camel.component.google-pubsub.resolve-property-placeholders

Whether the component should resolve property placeholders on itself when starting. Only properties which are of String type can use property placeholders.

true

Boolean

Producer Endpoints

Producer endpoints can accept and deliver to PubSub individual and grouped exchanges alike. Grouped exchanges have Exchange.GROUPED_EXCHANGE property set.

Google PubSub expects the payload to be byte[] array, Producer endpoints will send:

String body as byte[] encoded as UTF-8
byte[] body as is
Everything else will be serialised into byte[] array

A Map set as message header GooglePubsubConstants.ATTRIBUTES will be sent as PubSub attributes. Once exchange has been delivered to PubSub the PubSub Message ID will be assigned to the header GooglePubsubConstants.MESSAGE_ID.

Consumer Endpoints

Google PubSub will redeliver the message if it has not been acknowledged within the time period set as a configuration option on the subscription.

The component will acknowledge the message once exchange processing has been completed.

If the route throws an exception, the exchange is marked as failed and the component will NACK the message - it will be redelivered immediately.

To ack/nack the message the component uses Acknowledgement ID stored as header GooglePubsubConstants.ACK_ID. If the header is removed or tampered with, the ack will fail and the message will be redelivered again after the ack deadline.

Message Headers

Headers set by the consumer endpoints:

GooglePubsubConstants.MESSAGE_ID
GooglePubsubConstants.ATTRIBUTES
GooglePubsubConstants.PUBLISH_TIME
GooglePubsubConstants.ACK_ID

Message Body

The consumer endpoint returns the content of the message as byte[] - exactly as the underlying system sends it. It is up for the route to convert/unmarshall the contents.

Authentication Configuration

Google Pubsub component authentication is targeted for use with the GCP Service Accounts. For more information please refer to Google Cloud Platform Auth Guide

Google security credentials can be set explicitly via one of the two options:

Service Account Email and Service Account Key (PEM format)
GCP credentials file location

If both are set, the Service Account Email/Key will take precedence.

Or implicitly, where the connection factory falls back on Application Default Credentials.

OBS! The location of the default credentials file is configurable - via GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable.

Service Account Email and Service Account Key can be found in the GCP JSON credentials file as client_email and private_key respectively.

Rollback and Redelivery

The rollback for Google PubSub relies on the idea of the Acknowledgement Deadline - the time period where Google PubSub expects to receive the acknowledgement. If the acknowledgement has not been received, the message is redelivered.

Google provides an API to extend the deadline for a message.

More information in Google PubSub Documentation

So, rollback is effectively a deadline extension API call with zero value - i.e. deadline is reached now and message can be redelivered to the next consumer.

It is possible to delay the message redelivery by setting the acknowledgement deadline explicitly for the rollback by setting the message header GooglePubsubConstants.ACK_DEADLINE to the value in seconds.