chaps-nats 0.0.4

Tools to design Job APIs on top of NATS

ChapsNats

A library of python tools for working with NATS

Link to the pypi package: https://pypi.org/project/chaps-nats/

Description of the project

This project is a library of python tools for working with NATS. It is a collection of classes and functions that can be used to interact with NATS servers, and constructing standardized APIs with FastAPI.

Installation

The library is designed to be used in a python environment. It can be installed using pip (see the pypi package):

pip install chaps_nats

Usage

The library provides simple functionalities on top of the NATS python client:

import chaps_nats

# Create a NATS context within a context manager
# The cleanup is done automatically when the context manager exits
# The nats context is associated with an application id which will prefix the
# subjects / object store to allow for more consistency in the NATS server
async with chaps_nats.NatsContext(app_id="test", urls=[self.nats_url()]) as nats_context:

    # Create an object store for the context
    store = await nats_context.js.create_object_store("test")

    # Push a message to the object store
    await store.put("toto", b"Hello World!")

    # Retrieve the object from the object store
    res = (await store.get("toto")).data.decode("utf-8")

    # Publish a message to a subject
    await nats_context.publish("test.subject", b"Hello World!")

The library defines an job abstraction NatsJob which can be used to create a job that can be scheduled on a NATS server:

# Producer of a Job

import chaps_nats

async with chaps_nats.NatsContext(app_id="_tuto", urls=[self.nats_url()]) as nats_context:
    # Creates a job and updates its status
    job = await chaps_nats.NatsJob.create(nats_context=nats_context,
        create_if_not_exists=True # Create the job if it does not exist
    )

    assert await job.exists(), "The job should exist"

    status = await job.status()

    # The job is associated with a specific object store
    await job.object_store.put("input", b"Hello World!")

    # Sends a message to the NATS Queue with a subject subscribed by workers
    # The workers will then process the job and update the status
    await job.start()

The NatsJob can be consumed by a worker, extending chaps_nats.workers.NatsJobWorkerProcess :

import chaps_nats
import chaps_nats.workers

class TestBasicWorker(chaps_nats.workers.NatsJobWorkerProcess):
    """
    A worker which runs in a separate python process

    /!\ Be careful what you put in the members of this class
        A communication between processes is not trivial.
    """

    async def init_context(self, nats_context: chaps_nats.NatsContext) -> Dict:
        """
        Initialize the context (called when starting the process)

        You can use this method to initialize the context of the worker
        Load a model, connect to a database, initialize NATS subscribers and publishers, etc.
        """
        rich.print("[green]Initializing Context[/]")
        return {}

    async def process_job(self, job: chaps_nats.NatsJob, context: Dict) -> bool:
        """
        Processes a job ->
        Interact with the object store, and / or publish messages to the NATS server
        """
        rich.print(f"[green]Processing Job: {job.job_id}")
        await job.object_store.put("output", job.job_id.encode("utf-8"))
        return True

Finally we provide a tool to design standardized Job APIs with FastAPI, see Examples for more details.

You can run the examples with nats using the docker files provided.

# Launches the docker image containing the nats server
# And the example API located at Examples/basic_job_api/API.py
./launch_api.sh basic_job_api 8099

You can look at unit tests in repertory Tests for more details.