A publisher application creates and sends messages to a topic. Cloud Pub/Sub offers at-least-once message delivery and best-effort ordering to existing subscribers, as explained in the Subscriber Overview. The general flow for a publisher application is as follows:
- Create a message containing your data.
- Send a request to the Cloud Pub/Sub Server to publish the message to the desired topic.
To learn about creating and managing topics, see Managing Topics and Subscriptions.
See the
Client Libraries Getting Started Guide
to set up your environment in the programming language of your choice. When using JSON over REST, message data must be base64-encoded. The entire request including
one or more messages must be smaller than 10MB, after decoding.
Note that the message payload must not be empty; it must contain either a non-empty data field,
or at least one attribute. Client libraries, depending on your choice of programming language, can publish messages synchronously
or asynchronously. Asynchronous publishing allows for batching and higher throughput in your application. Request: Response:
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For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
You can embed custom attributes as metadata in Pub/Sub messages. Attributes
can be text strings or byte strings.
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Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
The Cloud Pub/Sub client libraries batch multiple messages into a single call to the service.
Larger batch sizes increase message throughput (rate of messages sent per CPU).
The cost of batching is latency for individual messages, which are queued in memory until their
corresponding batch is filled and ready to be sent over the network. To minimize latency,
batching should be turned off.
This is particularly important for applications that publish a single message as part
of a request-response sequence. A common example of this pattern is encountered in
serverless, event-driven applications using Cloud Functions or App Engine.
Messages can be batched based on request size (in bytes), number of messages, and time.
You can override the default settings as shown in this sample:
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Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
Publishing failures are automatically retried, except for errors that do not warrant retries.
This sample code demonstrates creating a publisher with custom retry settings (note that not all
client libraries support custom retry settings; see the API Reference documentation for your chosen
language):
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Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
Support for concurrency depends on your programming language.
Refer to the API Reference documentation for more information. The following sample illustrates how to control concurrency in a publisher:
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Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
For more on installing and creating a Cloud Pub/Sub client, refer to
Cloud Pub/Sub Client Libraries.
Setup
Publish messages to a topic
Protocol
POST https://pubsub.googleapis.com/v1/projects/myproject/topics/mytopic:publish
{
"messages": [
{
"attributes": {
"key": "iana.org/language_tag",
"value": "en"
},
"data": "SGVsbG8gQ2xvdWQgUHViL1N1YiEgSGVyZSBpcyBteSBtZXNzYWdlIQ=="
}
]
}
200 OK
{
"messageIds": [
"19916711285"
]
}
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