Connect to your cluster using the Pulsar Node.js client

This document describes how to connect to a cluster using a Node.js client, and use the Node.js producer and consumer to produce and consume messages to and from a topic. The Node.js client supports connecting to a StreamNative cluster using either OAuth2 or API Keys authentication.

Connect to your cluster using API keys

To connect a StreamNative cluster using API keys, follow these steps.

Step 1: Get the broker service URL of your cluster

To get the service URL(s) of a StreamNative cluster, follow these steps.

Step 2: Create an API key of your service account

You can follow the instructions to create an API key for the service account you choose to use.

Step 3: Connect to your cluster

For a complete example of how to connect to a cluster using the Pulsar Node.js client, see Node.js client examples.

Create a Node.js consumer to consume messages

You can create and configure a Node.js consumer to consume messages using Token authentication as follows. For more information about the placeholders in the code sample, see parameters for Token authentication.

const Pulsar = require('pulsar-client')

const service_url = '${brokerServiceURL}'
const auth_params = '${apikey}'

;(async () => {
  const auth = new Pulsar.AuthenticationToken({
    token: auth_params,
  })

  const client = new Pulsar.Client({
    serviceUrl: service_url,
    authentication: auth,
    operationTimeoutSeconds: 30,
  })

  const consumer = await client.subscribe({
    topic: 'persistent://${tenant}/${namespace}/${topic}',
    subscription: '${subscription}',
    subscriptionInitialPosition: 'Earliest',
  })

  for (let i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) {
    const msg = await consumer.receive()
    console.log(msg.getData().toString())
    await consumer.acknowledge(msg)
  }

  await consumer.close()
  await client.close()
})()

Create a Node.js producer to produce messages

You can create and configure a Node.js producer to produce messages using Token authentication as follows. For more information about the placeholders in the code sample, see parameters for Token authentication.

const Pulsar = require('pulsar-client')

const service_url = '${brokerServiceURL}'
const auth_params = '${apikey}'

;(async () => {
  const auth = new Pulsar.AuthenticationToken({
    token: auth_params,
  })

  const client = new Pulsar.Client({
    serviceUrl: service_url,
    authentication: auth,
    operationTimeoutSeconds: 30,
  })

  const producer = await client.createProducer({
    topic: 'persistent://${tenant}/${namespace}/${topic}',
    sendTimeoutMs: 30000,
    batchingEnabled: true,
  })

  for (let i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) {
    const msg = `my-message-${i}`
    await producer.send({
      data: Buffer.from(msg),
    })
    console.log(`Sent message: ${msg}`)
  }
  await producer.flush()

  await producer.close()
  await client.close()
})()

Parameters for Token authentication

• ${brokerServiceURL}: the broker service URL of your StreamNative cluster.
• ${apikey}: an API key of your service account.
• ${tenant}/${namespace}/${topic}: the full name of the topic for message production & consumption. It is a combination of the tenant name, the namespace name and the topic name.
• ${subscription}: the name of the subscription that will determine how messages are delivered.

Connect to your cluster using OAuth2 authentication

To connect a StreamNative cluster using OAuth2 authentication, follow these steps.

Step 1: Get the broker service URL of your cluster

To get the service URL(s) of a StreamNative cluster, follow these steps.

Step 2: Get the OAuth2 credential file of your service account

To get an OAuth2 credential file of a service account through the StreamNative Console, follow these steps.

1. On the left navigation pane, click Service Accounts.

2. In the row of the service account you want to use, in the Key File column, click the Download icon to download the OAuth2 credential file to your local directory.

   The OAuth2 credential file should be something like this:

   {
     "type": "SN_SERVICE_ACCOUNT",
     "client_id": "CLIENT_ID",
     "client_secret": "CLIENT_SECRET",
     "client_email": "[email protected]",
     "issuer_url": "https://auth.streamnative.cloud"
   }
   

Step 3: Connect to your cluster

For a complete example of how to connect to a cluster using the Pulsar Node.js client, see Node.js client examples.

Create a Node.js consumer to consume messages

You can create and configure a Node.js consumer to consume messages using the OAuth2 credential file as follows. For more information about the placeholders in the code sample, see parameters for OAuth2 authentication.

const Pulsar = require('pulsar-client')
const issuer_url = 'https://auth.streamnative.cloud/'
const private_key = '/YOUR-KEY-FILE-PATH' // Absolute file path of your downloaded key file without file:// prefix
const audience = 'urn:sn:pulsar:${orgName}:${instanceName}'
const service_url = '${brokerServiceURL}'

;(async () => {
  const params = {
    issuer_url: issuer_url,
    private_key: private_key,
    audience: audience,
  }

  const auth = new Pulsar.AuthenticationOauth2(params)

  const client = new Pulsar.Client({
    serviceUrl: service_url,
    authentication: auth,
    operationTimeoutSeconds: 30,
  })

  const consumer = await client.subscribe({
    topic: 'persistent://${tenant}/${namespace}/${topic}',
    subscription: '${subscription}',
    subscriptionInitialPosition: 'Earliest',
  })

  for (let i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) {
    const msg = await consumer.receive()
    console.log(msg.getData().toString())
    await consumer.acknowledge(msg)
  }

  await consumer.close()
  await client.close()
})()

Create a Node.js producer to produce messages

You can create and configure a Node.js producer to produce messages using the OAuth2 credential file as follows. For more information about the placeholders in the code sample, see parameters for OAuth2 authentication.

const Pulsar = require('pulsar-client')
const issuer_url = 'https://auth.streamnative.cloud/'
const private_key = '/YOUR-KEY-FILE-PATH' // Absolute file path of your downloaded key file without file:// prefix
const audience = 'urn:sn:pulsar:${orgName}:${instanceName}'
const service_url = '${brokerServiceURL}'

;(async () => {
  const params = {
    issuer_url: issuer_url,
    private_key: private_key,
    audience: audience,
  }

  const auth = new Pulsar.AuthenticationOauth2(params)

  const client = new Pulsar.Client({
    serviceUrl: service_url,
    authentication: auth,
    operationTimeoutSeconds: 30,
  })

  const producer = await client.createProducer({
    topic: 'persistent://${tenant}/${namespace}/${topic}',
    sendTimeoutMs: 30000,
    batchingEnabled: true,
  })

  for (let i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) {
    const msg = `my-message-${i}`
    await producer.send({
      data: Buffer.from(msg),
    })
    console.log(`Sent message: ${msg}`)
  }
  await producer.flush()

  await producer.close()
  await client.close()
})()

Parameters for OAuth2 authentication

• private_key: your downloaded OAuth2 credential. This parameter supports the following two pattern formats:
  • file:///path/to/file: the path to your downloaded OAuth2 credential file.
  • data:application/json;base64,<base64-encoded value>: the credential file content encoded into Base64 format.
• audience: the Uniform Resource Name (URN), which is a combination of the urn:sn:pulsar, your organization name, and your Pulsar instance name.
  • ${orgName}: the name of your organization.
  • ${instanceName}: the name of your instance.
• ${brokerServiceURL}: the broker service URL of your StreamNative cluster.
• ${tenant}/${namespace}/${topic}: the full name of the topic for message production & consumption. It is a combination of the tenant name, the namespace name and the topic name.
• ${subscription}: the name of the subscription that will determine how messages are delivered.