This section introduces how to develop and pacakge Golang Pulsar functions to use on StreamNative cloud. We provide a different Golang runtime other than the community one, and it’s still in private preview stage, If you want to try it out or have any questions, please submit a ticket to the support team.

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Develop

We provide a GO SDK for developing Golang Pulsar Functions. The following examples use Pulsar Functions SDK for the Golang language. 
package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	"github.com/streamnative/pulsar-function-go/pf"
	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
)

func HandleExclamation(ctx context.Context, in []byte) ([]byte, error) {
	// 1. unmarshal []byte to your struct, use any schema you want
	payload := string(in)

	// 2. do your logic
	if fc, ok := pf.FromContext(ctx); ok {
		for _, word := range strings.Split(payload, " ") {
			// 2.1 Incr and Get Counter from state store
			_ = fc.IncrCounter(word, 1)
			count, _ := fc.GetCounter(word)
			// 2.2 Sending logs to a Pulsar topic
			logrus.Infof("got word: %s for %d times", word, count)
		}
        // 2.3 Get user-defined configurations
        cfg := fc.GetUserConfValue("configKey")
		// 2.4 Get secret configurations
        sec, err := fc.GetSecret("secretKey")
        if err == nil {
            msg := fmt.Sprintf("config: %v, secret: %s", cfg, *sec)
			// 2.5 Publish to any topic
            _, _ = fc.Publish("persistent://public/default/test-exec-package-serde-extra", []byte(msg))
        }
	}
	data := payload + "!"

	// 3. marshal your struct to []byte
	return []byte(data), nil
}

func main() {
	pf.Start(HandleExclamation)
}
To get more examples, please refer to examples

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Feature Matrix

The StreamNative’s Golang runtime doesn’t support full features comparing to Java runtime, and it’s still in developing, below is the matrix:

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Input Arguments

InputJavaGo(Pulsar)PythonGo(StreamNative)
Custom SerDe✅❌✅?
Schema - Avro✅❌✅?
Schema - JSON✅❌✅?
Schema - Protobuf✅❌❌?
Schema - KeyValue✅❌❌?
Schema - AutoSchema✅❌❌?
Scehma - Protobuf Native✅❌❌?
e-2-e encryption✅❌✅✅
maxMessageRetries✅❌❌✅
dead-letter policy✅❌❌✅
SubscriptionName✅✅✅✅
SubscriptionType✅✅✅✅
SubscriptionInitialPosition✅❌✅✅
AutoAck✅✅✅✅
Users can implement the Schema themselves since we are passing and expecting []byte to/from the users’ function, so leave ? here.

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Output Arguments

OutputJavaGo(Pulsar)PythonGo(StreamNative)
Custom SerDe✅❌✅?
Schema - Avro✅❌✅?
Schema - JSON✅❌✅?
Schema - Protobuf✅❌❌?
Schema - KeyValue✅❌❌?
Schema - AutoSchema✅❌❌?
Schema - Protobuf Native✅❌❌?
useThreadLocalProducers✅❌❌✅
Key-based Batcher✅✅✅✅
e-2-e encryption✅❌✅✅
Compression✅✅✅✅

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Context

ContextJavaGo(Pulsar)PythonGo(StreamNative)
InputTopics✅✅✅✅
OutputTopic✅✅✅✅
CurrentRecord✅✅✅✅
OutputSchemaType✅❌✅✅
Tenant✅✅✅✅
Namespace✅✅✅✅
FunctionName✅✅✅✅
FunctionId✅✅✅✅
InstanceId✅✅✅✅
NumInstances✅❌✅✅
FunctionVersion✅✅✅✅
PulsarAdminClient✅❌❌❌
GetLogger✅❌✅✅
RecordMetrics✅✅✅❌
UserConfig✅✅✅✅
Secrets✅❌✅✅
State✅❌❌✅
Publish✅✅✅✅
ConsumerBuilder✅❌❌❌
Seek / Pause / Resume✅❌❌❌
PulsarClient✅❌❌❌

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Other

OtherJavaGo(Pulsar)PythonGo(StreamNative)
Resources✅✅✅✅
At-most-once✅✅✅✅
At-least-once✅✅✅✅
Effectively-once✅❌✅❌

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Package

For Golang, we need to compile the function file to an executable one:
  1. Prepare your function file: 
    package main

import (
    "context"
    "github.com/jiangpengcheng/pulsar-function-go/pf"
)

func HandleExclamation(ctx context.Context, in []byte) ([]byte, error) {
    return []byte(string(in) + "!"), nil
}

func main() {
    pf.Start(HandleExclamation)
}
  2. Compile 
    go mod init func
go mod tidy
GO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 GO111MODULE=on go build -o exclamation exclamation.go

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Deploy

After creating a cluster, set up your environment and develop&package your function, you can use the snctl, pulsarctl, pulsar-admin command, the REST API, or terraform to deploy a Pulsar function to your cluster. You can create a Golang Pulsar function by using a local compiled Golang file or an uploaded Pulsar functions package(recommend).

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(Optional) Upload your function file to Pulsar

It’s recommend to upload your function file to Pulsar before you create a function. Since you can add a version suffix to the package.
Upload packages
snctl pulsar admin packages upload function://public/default/exclamation@v0.1 \
--path exclamation-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \
--description "exclamation function" \
--properties fileName=exclamation-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
You should see the following output:
The package 'function://public/default/exclamation@v0.1' uploaded from path 'examples/api-examples.jar' successfully

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Create

snctl pulsar admin functions create \
--tenant public \
--namespace default \
--name function1 \
--inputs persistent://public/default/test-go-input \
--output persistent://public/default/test-go-output \
--classname exclamation \
--go function://public/default/go-exclamation@v0.1 \
--custom-runtime-options '{"genericKind": "executable"}'
We are using a different Golang runtime, need to specify the --custom-runtime-options '{"genericKind": "executable"}' to make it work.
You should see something like this:
Created function1 successfully
For details about Pulsar function configurations, see Pulsar function configurations.

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What’s next?