Batch messaging

Batch messaging creates a publisher client with custom batching settings and uses it to publish some messages.

This document provides information about using batch messaging with messages published to a topic.

Before you begin

Before configuring the publish workflow, ensure you have completed the following tasks:

Required roles

To get the permissions that you need to publish messages to a topic, ask your administrator to grant you the Pub/Sub Publisher (roles/pubsub.publisher) IAM role on the topic. For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

You might also be able to get the required permissions through custom roles or other predefined roles.

You need additional permissions to create or update topics and subscriptions.

Use batch messaging

See the following code samples to learn how to configure batch messaging settings for your publisher.

C++

Before trying this sample, follow the C++ setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C++ API reference documentation. 

namespace pubsub = ::google::cloud::pubsub;
using ::google::cloud::future;
using ::google::cloud::Options;
using ::google::cloud::StatusOr;
[](std::string project_id, std::string topic_id) {
  auto topic = pubsub::Topic(std::move(project_id), std::move(topic_id));
  // By default, the publisher will flush a batch after 10ms, after it
  // contains more than 100 message, or after it contains more than 1MiB of
  // data, whichever comes first. This changes those defaults.
  auto publisher = pubsub::Publisher(pubsub::MakePublisherConnection(
      std::move(topic),
      Options{}
          .set<pubsub::MaxHoldTimeOption>(std::chrono::milliseconds(20))
          .set<pubsub::MaxBatchBytesOption>(4 * 1024 * 1024L)
          .set<pubsub::MaxBatchMessagesOption>(200)));

  std::vector<future<void>> ids;
  for (char const* data : {"1", "2", "3", "go!"}) {
    ids.push_back(
        publisher.Publish(pubsub::MessageBuilder().SetData(data).Build())
            .then([data](future<StatusOr<std::string>> f) {
              auto s = f.get();
              if (!s) return;
              std::cout << "Sent '" << data << "' (" << *s << ")\n";
            }));
  }
  publisher.Flush();
  // Block until they are actually sent.
  for (auto& id : ids) id.get();
}

C#

Before trying this sample, follow the C# setup instructions in Quickstart: Using Client Libraries. For more information, see the Pub/Sub C# API reference documentation. 


using Google.Api.Gax;
using Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

public class PublishBatchedMessagesAsyncSample
{
    public async Task<int> PublishBatchMessagesAsync(string projectId, string topicId, IEnumerable<string> messageTexts)
    {
        TopicName topicName = TopicName.FromProjectTopic(projectId, topicId);

        // Default Settings:
        // byteCountThreshold: 1000000
        // elementCountThreshold: 100
        // delayThreshold: 10 milliseconds
        var customSettings = new PublisherClient.Settings
        {
            BatchingSettings = new BatchingSettings(
                elementCountThreshold: 50,
                byteCountThreshold: 10240,
                delayThreshold: TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(500))
        };

        PublisherClient publisher = await new PublisherClientBuilder
        {
            TopicName