Django Stomp

A simple implementation of STOMP with Django.

In theory it can work with any broker which supports STOMP with none or minor adjustments.

Installation

pip install django_stomp

Add django_stomp in your INSTALLED_APPS and so be it.

Configuration process

Not yet fully available, but feel free to see our tests to get insights.

Consumer

First you must create a function which receives an parameter of type django_stomp.services.consumer.Payload. Let's suppose the module app.sample with the following content:

import logging

from django_stomp.services.consumer import Payload

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


def my_honest_logic(payload: Payload) -> None:
    logger.info("Yeah, I received a payload from django-stomp!")

    my_payload = payload.body
    my_header = payload.headers

    if my_payload.get("my-dict-key"):
        payload.ack()
    else:
        logger.info("To DLQ!")
        payload.nack()

Now you must provide broker connection details filling out the following parameters at least:

• STOMP_SERVER_HOST
• STOMP_SERVER_PORT
• STOMP_USE_SSL

And just create the job issuing the following command:

python manage.py pubsub "/queue/your-stuff" app.sample.my_honest_logic

That's it ✌️

Settings

Here is a list of parameters that you can set in your Django project settings:

STOMP_SERVER_HOST

The hostname of the STOMP server.

STOMP_SERVER_PORT

The STOMP server port used to allow STOMP connections.

STOMP_SERVER_USER

The client username to connect to a STOMP server.

STOMP_SERVER_PASSWORD

The client password to connect to a STOMP server.

STOMP_USE_SSL

Set to True, true, 1, T, t, Y or y in order to all STOMP connections use a SSL/TLS tunnel.

STOMP_SERVER_STANDBY_HOST

The hostname of the STOMP standby server.

STOMP_SERVER_STANDBY_PORT

The STOMP standby server port used to allow STOMP connections.

STOMP_SERVER_VHOST

The virtual host used in the STOMP server.

STOMP_SUBSCRIPTION_ID

Used to identify the subscription in the connection between client and server. See the STOMP protocol specification for more information.

STOMP_OUTGOING_HEARTBEAT

A positive integer to indicates what is the period (in milliseconds) the client will send a frame to the server that indicates its still alive. Set to 0 to means that it cannot send any heart-beat frame. See the STOMP protocol specification for more information. Defaults to 10000 ms.

STOMP_INCOMING_HEARTBEAT

A positive integer to indicates what is the period (in milliseconds) the client will await for a server frame until it assumes that the server is still alive. Set to 0 to means that it do not want to receive heart-beats. See the STOMP protocol specification for more information. Defaults to 10000 ms.

STOMP_WAIT_TO_CONNECT

A positive integer to indicates how long it needs to await to try to reconnect if an Exception in the listener logic is not properly handled.

STOMP_DURABLE_TOPIC_SUBSCRIPTION

Set to True, true, 1, T, t, Y or y in order to all STOMP topic subscription be durable. See the RabbitMQ take on it or the ActiveMQ for more information.

STOMP_LISTENER_CLIENT_ID

A string that represents the client id for a durable subscriber or the listener prefix client id in a non-durable subscription in ActiveMQ.

STOMP_CORRELATION_ID_REQUIRED

A flag that indicates if correlation-id header must be required or not. By default this flag is true (good practice thinking in future troubleshooting). Set to False, false, 0, F, f, N or n in order to allow consume messages without correlation-id header. If it's false django-stomp generates a correlation-id header for the message automatically.

STOMP_PROCESS_MSG_ON_BACKGROUND

A flag to indicate if it should process a received message on background, enabling the broker-consumer communication to still take place. Set to True, true, 1, T, t, Y or y in order to have the message processing on background.

STOMP_PROCESS_MSG_WORKERS

Optional parameter that controls how many workers the pool that manage the background processing should create. If defined, this parameter must be an integer!

STOMP_GRACEFUL_WAIT_SECONDS

Optional parameter that controls how many seconds django-stomp will wait for a message to be processed. Defaults to 30 seconds. If defined, this parameter must be an integer!

STOMP_DEFAULT_EXCLUSIVE_QUEUE

Optional parameter that defines if the default value of exclusive queue parameter will be True or False when creating a queue in RabbitMQ. The default value is False.

Tests

In order to execute tests for ActiveMQ, execute the following:

docker-compose up -d broker-activemq

Or for RabbitMQ:

docker-compose up -d broker-rabbitmq

Then at last:

pipenv run tox

Database connection management (applies to version >= 5.0.0)

For every message that a django-stomp consumer receives, it opens a new DB connection if it needs to, keeping it open until it exceeds the maximum age defined by CONN_MAX_AGE or when the connection becomes unusable.

Known limitations

• Currently, we assume that all dead lettered messages are sent to a queue with the same name as its original destination but prefixed with DLQ., i.e., if your queue is /queue/some-queue, the dead letter destination is asssumed to be /queue/DLQ.some-queue.
• Be cautious with the heartbeat functionality! If your consumer is slow, it could prevent the client to receive and process any heart-beat frame sent by the server, causing the client to terminate the connection due to a false positive heartbeat timeout. You can workaround it with the STOMP_PROCESS_MSG_ON_BACKGROUND parameter that uses a thread pool to process the message.
• For the RabbitMQ users: the django-stomp consumer always try to connect to a durable queue, so if your queue is not durable, the RabbitMQ broker will not allow the subscription.
• For versions prior to 5.0.0: Any database connection management in the consumer side is up to its callback. If you have any long-running consumer that relies on a DB connection, be sure that you manage it properly, otherwise if a connection becomes unusable, you'll have to restart the consumer entirely just to setup a new DB connection.