is-wire-sea

Python AMQP middleware for the IS architecture. The PyPI distribution is named is-wire-sea; the stable Python package remains is_wire.

Installation

python -m pip install is-wire-sea

Python 3.10 through 3.14 are supported. Install an OTLP exporter with:

python -m pip install 'is-wire-sea[tracing]'

Broker

Production deployments must pin RabbitMQ by patch version and image digest. The development baseline is RabbitMQ 4.3.1:

docker run --rm -p 5672:5672 \
  rabbitmq:4.3.1@sha256:6a46d2aef889d2a8cc28ac91b4a1ca0116a4a151de10cada219ee7685dc01c5b

RabbitMQ 3.7.6 is a migration-only target. Move existing 3.7.6 deployments to a fresh 4.3 cluster using a blue-green migration; do not reuse its data directory directly.

Pub/sub

The existing at-most-once API is preserved:

from is_wire.core import Channel, Message, Subscription

with Channel("amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672") as channel:
    subscription = Subscription(channel)
    subscription.subscribe("Camera.Config")

    channel.publish(Message(content=b"hello"), topic="Camera.Config")
    received = channel.consume(timeout=1.0)

Anonymous subscriptions are exclusive and temporary. Named subscriptions are durable, shared between replicas, and expire after five minutes without use.

Real-time image streams

Use StreamSubscription when old frames may be discarded. Replicas with the same group share one queue, so each frame is processed by one replica instead of being copied to all of them.

from is_msgs.image_pb2 import Image
from is_wire.core import Channel, Message, StreamSubscription


def process(message):
    image = message.unpack(Image)
    # image.data already contains JPEG, WebP, or PNG bytes.


with Channel("amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672") as channel:
    stream = StreamSubscription(channel, group="detector")
    stream.subscribe("Camera.*.Frame")
    stream.run(process)

Publish a frame with stream semantics:

image = Image(data=encoded_jpeg_bytes)
channel.publish_stream(Message(content=image), topic="Camera.0.Frame")

The stream preset uses manual acknowledgements, prefetch 1, a queue length of one, drop-head overflow, a two-second TTL, and non-persistent messages. A callback exception rejects the frame without requeue. Use a different group only when another processing stage genuinely needs its own copy.

Image.data must contain encoded binary image bytes. Do not send raw RGB/BGR unless the network budget explicitly allows it, do not base64 encode the body, and do not apply generic gzip/zstd compression to an already compressed JPEG, WebP, or PNG payload.

Use a separate Channel for image traffic and RPC/control traffic to avoid large frames delaying small control messages.

Protobuf

from google.protobuf.struct_pb2 import Struct
from is_wire.core import ContentType, Message

value = Struct()
value["camera"] = "front"

binary = Message(content=value)
assert binary.content_type == ContentType.PROTOBUF
assert binary.unpack(Struct) == value

json_message = Message(content_type=ContentType.JSON)
json_message.pack(value)

Protobuf 5 through 7 are supported. The existing binary bodies and AMQP property conventions remain compatible with is-wire 1.2.1.

RPC

from google.protobuf.struct_pb2 import Struct
from is_wire.core import Channel
from is_wire.rpc import ServiceProvider


def echo(request, context):
    return request


channel = Channel("amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672")
provider = ServiceProvider(channel)
provider.delegate("Echo", echo, Struct, Struct)
provider.run()

RPC service queues use manual acknowledgements and prefetch 16. A request is acknowledged only after its reply is published, so handlers should be idempotent.

OpenTelemetry

Tracer, TracingInterceptor, Message.inject_tracing, and Message.extract_tracing use OpenTelemetry and B3 multi-header propagation. Both 64-bit legacy and 128-bit trace IDs are accepted.

from is_wire.core import Message, Tracer

tracer = Tracer()
with tracer.span("publish") as span:
    message = Message(content=b"payload")
    message.inject_tracing(span)

OpenCensus exporters are available temporarily through is-wire-sea[legacy-tracing] and emit a deprecation warning.

Metrics

Prometheus metrics are registered in the default registry. MetricsInterceptor.start_server() can expose them over HTTP. The 1.3 profile exports:

• is_wire_messages_published_total and is_wire_published_bytes_total;
• is_wire_messages_received_total and is_wire_received_bytes_total;
• is_wire_stream_processing_seconds, is_wire_stream_frame_age_seconds, and is_wire_stream_callback_errors_total;
• is_wire_reconnections_total;
• is_wire_rpc_duration_seconds and is_wire_rpc_requests_total, partitioned by status.

Image content and correlation IDs are never used as metric labels.

TLS and connection lifecycle

amqps:// enables TLS with certificate and hostname verification. Additional py-amqp SSL options can be passed with ssl_options. Consumers reconnect with exponential backoff; publishes are never automatically retried because delivery may already have occurred.

channel = Channel(
    "amqps://user:password@rabbitmq.example:5671/vhost",
    heartbeat=30,
    ssl_options={"ca_certs": "/etc/ssl/certs/cluster-ca.pem"},
)

Development

python -m pip install -e '.[dev,tracing]'
pytest
ruff check src tests
python -m build
twine check --strict dist/*

Regenerate the internal wire schema reproducibly with the pinned Protobuf 5.29 compiler:

python -m pip install -e '.[codegen]'
python scripts/generate_wire.py

Exercise the 30 FPS publisher / 10 FPS consumer profile against a test broker with:

python scripts/validate_stream_profile.py --payload-size 1048576 --frames 300

Run the same command from separate Kubernetes deployments sharing a group to compare RabbitMQ ingress/egress metrics as replicas are added.

See MIGRATION.md, COMPATIBILITY.md, and CHANGELOG.md before upgrading an existing deployment.

Acknowledgements

The modernization, compatibility review, testing, and PyPI packaging of the 1.3 series were completed with assistance from OpenAI Codex.