Nitox - Tokio-based async NATS client

Description

Nitox is a tokio-based client for NATS. We wrote it because the existing library is sync and does not fit our needs.

A lot of features are currently missing, so feel free to contribute and help us building the best Async NATS client ever!

Missing features:

• Find a way to integration test the reconnection mechanism - but it has actually been hand-tested and works
• Auto-pruning of subscriptions being unsubscribed after X messages - It's actually a bug, since a stream stays open albeit sleeping
• Handle verbose mode
• Handle pedantic mode - Should work OOB since we're closely following the protocol (Edit: it does)
• Switch parsing to using nom - We're not sure we can handle very weird clients; we're fine talking to official ones right now
• Add support for NATS Streaming Server - Should be pretty easy with prost since we already have the async architecture going on

There's a small extra in the tests/ folder, some of our integration tests rely on a custom NATS server implemented with tokio that only implements a subset of the protocol to fit our needs for the integration testing.

Documentation

Here: http://docs.rs/nitox

Installation

[dependencies]
nitox = "0.1"

Usage

extern crate nitox;
extern crate futures;
use futures::{prelude::*, future};
use nitox::{NatsClient, NatsClientOptions, NatsError, commands::*};

fn connect_to_nats() -> impl Future<Item = NatsClient, Error = NatsError> {
    // Defaults as recommended per-spec, but you can customize them
    let connect_cmd = ConnectCommand::builder().build().unwrap();
    let options = NatsClientOptions::builder()
        .connect_command(connect_cmd)
        .cluster_uri("127.0.0.1:4222")
        .build()
        .unwrap();

    NatsClient::from_options(options)
        .and_then(|client| {
            // Makes the client send the CONNECT command to the server, but it's usable as-is if needed
            client.connect()
        })
        .and_then(|client| {
            // Client has sent its CONNECT command and is ready for usage
            future::ok(client)
        })
}

License

Licensed under either of these:

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Why "Nitox"

Standing for Nitric Oxide, an important chemical involved in communication between neurons; It's highly related to the acronym behind NATS, and you should ask the team behind it for the meaning! (or look in the git history of gnatsd's repo)

What is NATS

NATS Server is a simple, high performance open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, and microservices architectures.

More details at NATS.io

Yellow Innovation

Yellow Innovation is the innovation laboratory of the French postal service: La Poste.

We create innovative user experiences and journeys through services with a focus on IoT lately.

Yellow Innovation's website and works