Spring Cloud Stream

External

• https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-stream/
• https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-stream-app-starters/
• Reference Spring Cloud Stream Core https://docs.spring.io/spring-cloud-stream/docs/Elmhurst.RELEASE/reference/htmlsingle/#_spring_cloud_stream_core

Internal

• Spring Cloud

Overview

Spring Cloud Stream is a framework for building highly scalable event-driven microservices connected with shared messaging systems. Spring applications use Spring Cloud Stream libraries to bind to a messaging middleware. Spring Cloud Stream builds upon Spring Boot to create standalone production-grade applications and uses Spring Integration to provide connectivity to message brokers. The applications built with Spring Cloud Stream are middleware-neutral. Instead, the application communicates with the outside world through input and output channels injected into it by Spring Cloud Stream runtime. Channels are connected to brokers through middleware-specific binder implementations.

Concepts

Binder

The component responsible to provide integration with external messaging systems. Spring Cloud Stream automatically detects and uses a binder found on the classpath. The actual destination (such as Kafka topics or RabbitMQ exchanges) it is selected at boot based on configuration (application arguments, environment variables, application.yml or application.properties).

Available binders:

• Rabbit Binder
• Kafka Binder
• AWS Kinesis Binder
• Google Cloud PubSub Binder
• TestSupportBinder

Destination Binding

Bridge between the external messaging system and application-provided Producers and Consumers of messages. The Producers and Consumers are created by the Destination Binders.

Interfaces

Sink

Input and no output.

public interface Sink {
  String INPUT = "input";

  @Input(Sink.INPUT)
  SubscribableChannel input();
}

Channel

Input Channel

An input channel funnels received messages into the application. The implementation is transparently created by Spring Cloud Stream and injected into the application.

Output Channel

Published messages leave the application via output channels. An input channel funnels received messages into the application. The implementation is transparently created by Spring Cloud Stream and injected into the application.

Destination

The destination can be a queue, topic, or others.

Message

The canonical data structure used by Producers and Consumers to communicate with Destination Binders, and thus other applications via external messaging systems.

Message Handler

Is this the same thing as the handler method?

@StreamListener(Sink.INPUT)
public void handle(...) {
...
}

Also see @StreamListener.

Annotations

• @EnableBinding - provides immediate connectivity to a message broker.
• @StreamListener - annotates a handler method to receive events for stream processing.
• @Input
• @Output

Configuration

spring.cloud.stream.bindings.input.destination

Note that in function of the dynamic binding at boot, the destination can be a Kafka topic, a RabbitMQ exchange, etc.