Connect to a single NATS server at the given URI

nats = NATS::Client.new(URI.parse("nats://nats.example.com"))

Connect to a NATS cluster at the given URIs

nats = NATS::Client.new([
  URI.parse("nats://nats-1.example.com"),
  URI.parse("nats://nats-2.example.com"),
  URI.parse("nats://nats-3.example.com"),
])

Close this NATS connection. This should be done explicitly before exiting the program so that the NATS server can remove any subscriptions that were associated with this client.

Flush the client's output buffer over the wire

Returns a NATS::JetStream::Client that uses this client's connection to the NATS server.

Returns a NATS::KV::Client that uses this client's connection to the NATS server.

EXPERIMENTAL NATS KV support is experimental and subject to change as NATS support for it changes

Execute the given block whenever this client is disconnected from the NATS server.

nats = NATS::Client.new
nats.on_disconnect { Datadog.metrics.increment "nats.disconnect" }

Execute the given block whenever an exception is raised inside this NATS client.

nats = NATS::Client.new
nats.on_error { |error| Honeybadger.notify error }

Execute the given block whenever this client is reconnected to the NATS server.

nats = NATS::Client.new
nats.on_reconnect { Datadog.metrics.increment "nats.reconnect" }

Publish the given message body (either Bytes for binary data or String for text) on the given NATS subject, optionally supplying a reply_to subject (if expecting a reply or to notify the receiver where to send updates) and any headers.

# Send an empty message to a subject
nats.publish "hello"

# Serialize an object to a subject
nats.publish "orders.#{order.id}", order.to_json

# Tell a recipient where to send results. For example, to stream results
# to a given subject:
reply_subject = "replies.orders.list.customer.123"
orders = [] of Order
nats.subscribe reply_subject do |msg|
  case result = (Order | Complete).from_json(String.new(msg.body))
  in Order
    orders << result
  in Complete
    nats.unsubscribe reply_subject
  end
end
nats.publish "orders.list.customer.123", reply_to: reply_subject

# Publish a message to NATS JetStream with a message-deduplication header
# for idempotency:
nats.jetstream.subscribe consumer_subject, queue_group: "my-service" do |msg|
  # ...
end
nats.publish orders_subject, order.to_json, headers: NATS::Message::Headers{
  # Deduplicate using the equivalent of a cache key
  "Nats-Msg-Id" => "order-submitted-#{order.id}-#{order.updated_at.to_json}",
}

Send the given body to the msg's reply_to subject, often used in a request/reply messaging model.

nats.subscribe "orders.*", queue_group: "orders-service" do |msg|
  _, id = msg.subject.split('.') # Similar to HTTP path routing

  if order = OrderQuery.new.find_by(id: id)
    nats.reply msg, {order: order}.to_json
  else
    nats.reply msg, {error: "No order with that id found"}.to_json
  end
end

Make a synchronous request to subscribers of the given subject, waiting up to timeout for a response from any of the subscribers. The first message to come back will be returned. If no messages comes back before the timeout elapses, nil is returned.

if order_response = nats.request("orders.info.#{order_id}")
  response << Order.from_json(String.new(order_response.body))
else
  response.status = :service_unavailable
end

Make an asynchronous request to subscribers of the given subject, not waiting for a response. The first message to come back will be passed to the block.

The current state of the connection

Subscribe to the given subject, optionally with a queue_group (so that each message is delivered to this application once instead of once for each instance of the application), executing the given block for each message.

require "nats"

nats = NATS::Client.new
nats.subscribe "orders.created" do |msg|
  order = Order.from_json(String.new(msg.body))

  # ...
end

Unsubscribe from the given subscription after the specified number of messages has been received.

Unsubscribe from the given subscription

nats = NATS::Client.new

new_orders = [] of NATS::Message
subscription = nats.subscribe "orders.created.*" do |msg|
  messages << msg
end

spawn do
  sleep 10.seconds
  nats.unsubscribe subscription
end