mq-bridge-py 0.2.17

Python bindings for mq-bridge (full: all brokers incl. Kafka)

mq-bridge Python bindings

Thin Python bindings for the Rust mq-bridge core.

Install

Pick exactly one distribution. Both install the same import path: mq_bridge.

Package	Install	Includes
Full	pip install mq-bridge-py	Basic set plus Kafka, AWS, gRPC, MongoDB, SQLx
Basic	pip install mq-bridge-py-basic	HTTP, NATS, MQTT, AMQP, WebSocket, ZeroMQ, middleware

Memory and file endpoints are always present in both packages. Use mq-bridge-py-basic when you want the lean all-platform wheel set. Use mq-bridge-py when you need Kafka or the heavier non-messaging backends.

The public API stays close to mq-bridge itself:

• Route.from_yaml(path, name) loads one named route
• Route.with_handler(...) attaches a raw Message handler, with lazy json()/text() readers and with_json()/with_payload() response helpers
• Route.add_handler(kind, ...) uses mq-bridge's kind dispatch and delivers decoded JSON
• RetryableError and NonRetryableError let Python handlers signal retry intent
• Publisher.from_yaml(path, name) loads one named publisher
• Publisher.send_json(...) and Publisher.request_json(...) serialize Python JSON values in Rust

The Python surface is synchronous and blocking. Tokio, broker I/O, routing, and batching all stay in Rust.

Local development

uv is a good fit here for the Python-side developer workflow, while maturin stays the build backend:

cd python/mq-bridge-py
uv sync --group dev --no-install-project
uv run maturin develop
uv run pytest -q

Performance smoke tests are skipped by default because they start routes and measure local throughput:

cd python/mq-bridge-py
MQ_BRIDGE_RUN_PERF_TESTS=1 uv run pytest -q -m performance

Examples

Raw message handler:

cd python/mq-bridge-py
uv run python examples/raw_route.py

Kind-based JSON handler:

cd python/mq-bridge-py
uv run python examples/json_route.py

Memory benchmark:

cd python/mq-bridge-py
uv run maturin develop --release
uv run python examples/bench_memory.py --messages 100000

Analysis

HTTP comparison benchmark, driven by a native load generator (wrk) so the client is never the bottleneck. It boots each server itself (mq-bridge in worker and direct executor modes, plus FastAPI, Starlette, Sanic, aiohttp, and FastStream when installed) and drives each with wrk:

cd python/mq-bridge-py
uv run maturin develop --release
uv sync --group bench   # optional Python HTTP peers
uv run python analysis/bench_http_native.py --connections 1,8,32 --duration 8

Requires wrk on PATH (brew install wrk). The FastStream target compares its ASGI custom-route path over Uvicorn; it is not a broker-backed subscriber/publisher benchmark. The examples use included sample configs or create temporary configs.