SDK for Python Streaming Quickstart

1. To use the SDK for Python, you must have the following:

   • An Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account.
   • A user created in that account, in a group with a policy that grants the required permissions. This user can be yourself, or another person/system that needs to call the API. For an example of how to set up a new user, group, compartment, and policy, see Adding Users. For a list of typical policies you may want to use, see Common Policies.
   • A key pair used for signing API requests, with the public key uploaded to Oracle. Only the user calling the API should possess the private key.
   Note
   
   For more information, see Configuring the SDK.
2. Collect the Messages endpoint and OCID of a stream. See Listing Streams and Stream Pools for instructions on viewing stream details. For the purposes of this quickstart, the stream should use a public endpoint and let Oracle manage encryption. Refer to Creating a Stream and Creating a Stream Pool if you do not have an existing stream.
3. Python 3.6 or later, with PIP installed and updated.
4. Visual Code Studio (recommended) or any other integrated development environment (IDE).

5. Install oci-sdk packages for Python using the following command:

   pip install oci

   Note
   
   We recommend that you use a Python virtual environment when installing oci. See Downloading and Installing the SDK for more information.
6. Ensure that you have a valid SDK configuration file. For production environments, you should use instance principal authorization.

1. Open your favorite editor, such as Visual Studio Code, from the directory wd. You should already have oci-sdk packages for Python installed for your current Python environment after you've met the prerequisites.

2. Create a file named Producer.py in the wd directory with following code. Replace values of variables ociConfigFilePath, ociProfileName,ociStreamOcid, and ociMessageEndpoint in the following code snippet with the values applicable for your tenancy.

   import oci  
     
   from base64 import b64encode  
     
   ociMessageEndpoint = "<stream_message_endpoint>"  
   ociStreamOcid = "<stream_OCID>"  
   ociConfigFilePath = "<config_file_path>"  
   ociProfileName = "<config_file_profile_name>"  
     
   def produce_messages(client, stream_id):
     # Build up a PutMessagesDetails and publish some messages to the stream
     message_list = []
     for i in range(100):
         key = "messageKey" + str(i)
         value = "messageValue " + str(i)
         encoded_key = b64encode(key.encode()).decode()
         encoded_value = b64encode(value.encode()).decode()
         message_list.append(oci.streaming.models.PutMessagesDetailsEntry(key=encoded_key, value=encoded_value))  
     
     print("Publishing {} messages to the stream {} ".format(len(message_list), stream_id))
     messages = oci.streaming.models.PutMessagesDetails(messages=message_list)
     put_message_result = client.put_messages(stream_id, messages)
     
     # The put_message_result can contain some useful metadata for handling failures
     for entry in put_message_result.data.entries:
         if entry.error:
             print("Error ({}) : {}".format(entry.error, entry.error_message))
         else:
             print("Published message to partition {} , offset {}".format(entry.partition, entry.offset))
   
   config = oci.config.from_file(ociConfigFilePath, ociProfileName)
   stream_client = oci.streaming.StreamClient(config, service_endpoint=ociMessageEndpoint)
   
   # Publish some messages to the stream
   produce_messages(stream_client, ociStreamOcid)

3. From the wd directory, run the following command:

   python Producer.py

4. Use the Console to see the latest messages sent to the stream to verify that production was successful.

1. First, ensure that the stream you want to consume messages from contains messages. You could use the Console to produce a test message, or use the stream and messages we created in this quickstart.
2. Open your favorite editor, such as Visual Studio Code, from the directory wd. You should already have oci-sdk packages for Python installed for your current Python environment after ensuring you have the prerequisites.

3. Create a file named Consumer.py in directory wd with following code. Replace values of variables ociConfigFilePath, ociProfileName,ociStreamOcid, and ociMessageEndpoint in the following code snippet with the values applicable for your tenancy.

   import oci
   import time
   
   from base64 import b64decode
   
   ociMessageEndpoint = "<stream_message_endpoint>"  
   ociStreamOcid = "<stream_OCID>"  
   ociConfigFilePath = "<config_file_path>"  
   ociProfileName = "<config_file_profile_name>"  
   
   
   def get_cursor_by_group(sc, sid, group_name, instance_name):
       print(" Creating a cursor for group {}, instance {}".format(group_name, instance_name))
       cursor_details = oci.streaming.models.CreateGroupCursorDetails(group_name=group_name, instance_name=instance_name,
                                                                      type=oci.streaming.models.
                                                                      CreateGroupCursorDetails.TYPE_TRIM_HORIZON,
                                                                      commit_on_get=True)
       response = sc.create_group_cursor(sid, cursor_details)
       return response.data.value
   
   def simple_message_loop(client, stream_id, initial_cursor):
       cursor = initial_cursor
       while True:
           get_response = client.get_messages(stream_id, cursor, limit=10)
           # No messages to process. return.
           if not get_response.data:
               return
   
           # Process the messages
           print(" Read {} messages".format(len(get_response.data)))
           for message in get_response.data:
               if message.key is None:
                   key = "Null"
               else:
                   key = b64decode(message.key.encode()).decode()
               print("{}: {}".format(key,
                                     b64decode(message.value.encode()).decode()))
   
           # get_messages is a throttled method; clients should retrieve sufficiently large message
           # batches, as to avoid too many http requests.
           time.sleep(1)
           # use the next-cursor for iteration
           cursor = get_response.headers["opc-next-cursor"]
   
   
   config = oci.config.from_file(ociConfigFilePath, ociProfileName)
   stream_client = oci.streaming.StreamClient(config, service_endpoint=ociMessageEndpoint)
   
   # A cursor can be created as part of a consumer group.
   # Committed offsets are managed for the group, and partitions
   # are dynamically balanced amongst consumers in the group.
   group_cursor = get_cursor_by_group(stream_client, ociStreamOcid, "example-group", "example-instance-1")
   simple_message_loop(stream_client, ociStreamOcid, group_cursor)

4. From the wd directory, run the following command:

   python Consumer.py

5. You should see messages similar to the following:

   Starting a simple message loop with a group cursor
   Creating a cursor for group example-group, instance example-instance-1
    Read 2 messages
   Null: Example Test Message 0
   Null: Example Test Message 0
    Read 2 messages
   Null: Example Test Message 0
   Null: Example Test Message 0
    Read 1 messages
   Null: Example Test Message 0
    Read 10 messages
   key 0: value 0
   key 1: value 1

   Note
   
   If you used the Console to produce a test message, the key for each message is Null

See the following resources for more information:

1. OCI SDK for Python on GitHub
2. OCI SDK for Python Streaming examples