Outboxer

Outboxer is a go library that implements the outbox pattern.

Getting Started

Outboxer was designed to simplify the tough work of orchestrating message reliabilty. Essentially we are trying to solve this question:

How can producers reliably send messages when the broker/consumer is unavailable?

If you have a distributed system architecture and especially is dealing with Event Driven Architecture, you might want to use outboxer.

The first thing to do is include the package in your project

go get github.com/italolelis/outboxer

Initial Configuration

Let's setup a simple example where you are using RabbitMQ and Postgres as your outbox pattern components:

ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
defer cancel()

db, err := sql.Open("postgres", os.Getenv("DS_DSN"))
if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("could not connect to amqp: %s", err)
    return
}

conn, err := amqp.Dial(os.Getenv("ES_DSN"))
if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("could not connect to amqp: %s", err)
    return
}

// we need to create a data store instance first
ds, err := postgres.WithInstance(ctx, db)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("could not setup the data store: %s", err)
    return
}
defer ds.Close()

// we create an event stream passing the amqp connection
es := amqpOut.NewAMQP(conn)

// now we create an outboxer instance passing the data store and event stream
o, err := outboxer.New(
    outboxer.WithDataStore(ds),
    outboxer.WithEventStream(es),
    outboxer.WithCheckInterval(1*time.Second),
    outboxer.WithCleanupInterval(5*time.Second),
    outboxer.WithCleanUpBefore(time.Now().AddDate(0, 0, -5)),
)
if err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("could not create an outboxer instance: %s", err)
    return
}

// here we initialize the outboxer checks and cleanup go rotines
o.Start(ctx)
defer o.Stop()

// finally we are ready to send messages
if err = o.Send(ctx, &outboxer.OutboxMessage{
    Payload: []byte("test payload"),
    Options: map[string]interface{}{
        amqpOut.ExchangeNameOption: "test",
        amqpOut.ExchangeTypeOption: "topic",
        amqpOut.RoutingKeyOption:   "test.send",
    },
}); err != nil {
    fmt.Printf("could not send message: %s", err)
    return
}

// we can also listen for errors and ok messages that were send
for {
    select {
    case err := <-o.ErrChan():
        fmt.Printf("could not send message: %s", err)
    case <-o.OkChan():
        fmt.Printf("message received")
        return
    }
}

Features

Outboxer comes with a few implementations of Data Stores and Event Streams.

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

License