"Hello, World! 🎉" in Rust

Node Rust

In this guide we’ll provide instructions on how to set up a Rust project and build a simple data streaming app. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to send a message to Fluvio and receive it back.

Prerequisites

Before starting on this tutorial, you’ll need to have completed the following

Install the Rust programming language
Have the Fluvio CLI (version 0.7.0 or greater) installed ^[1]
Have access to a Fluvio cluster.

See our getting started guide for more details on getting set up.

Create a Topic using the Fluvio CLI

In Fluvio, we send all of our messages to something called a Topic, which is like a category for related messages. For this tutorial, we’ll create a topic called hello-fluvio using the following command:

$ fluvio topic create hello-fluvio

Creating a new Cargo project

We’ll be using Rust’s package manager Cargo to set up our project. Cargo is helpful because it manages compiling our code and dependencies.

To create a new Rust project with cargo, run

$ cargo new --bin hello-fluvio
     Created binary (application) `hello-fluvio` package

One of the first things we need to do is add our dependencies. We’re going to need the fluvio crate as well as async-std because the Fluvio client is async. In your project folder, edit your Cargo.toml and add lines under your [dependencies] section to import fluvio and async-std. It should look something like this:

$ cd hello-fluvio
$ cat Cargo.toml
[package]
name = "hello-fluvio"
version = "0.1.0"
authors = ["Your name <your_email@example.com>"]
edition = "2018"

[dependencies]
fluvio = "0.5.0"
async-std = { version = "1.0.0", features = ["attributes"] }

Create Producer/Consumer

Now let’s head on over to the src/main.rs file. This is where your main function lives. Our “Hello World” will be composed of two halves: a producer function, and a consumer function. Let’s add those right next to our main function:

use fluvio::FluvioError;

#[async_std::main]
async fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}

async fn produce(message: &str) -> Result<(), FluvioError> {
    todo!()
}

async fn consume() -> Result<(), FluvioError> {
    todo!()
}

Notice that our new functions start with the async keyword. We need this because the Fluvio client library is built with asynchronous code. If you’re curious about how async code in Rust works, check out the Async Rust book!

Run the following command from within your project directory

$ cargo run

In your consumer window, you should see a message with Hello, world! appear! Ignore the warnings, we’ll fix those soon.

We’ll start out by writing our producer code, which will send messages to our Topic.

async fn produce(message: &str) -> Result<(), FluvioError> {
    let producer = fluvio::producer("hello-fluvio").await?;
    producer.send_record(message, 0).await?;
    Ok(())
}

That’s it for the producer! Let’s hook up some code in main to call it and test it out.

#[async_std::main]
async fn main() {
    let _result = produce("Hello, Fluvio!").await;
}

Notice that we had to use the block_on function from async_std. This block_on function is acting as our executor, and is part of the machinery that makes async code in Rust work.

We can now run this code and see it in action. We’ll use the fluvio CLI to see the message arrive at the “hello-fluvio” topic.

In one terminal window, run the following command to print out events in the “hello-fluvio” topic

$ fluvio consume hello-fluvio -B

Then in another terminal window, run the following command from within your project directory

$ cargo run

In your consumer window, you should see a message with Hello, Fluvio! appear!

Now let’s write some code in Rust to do the consuming for us.

use fluvio::Offset;
use async_std::stream::StreamExt;

async fn consume() -> Result<(), FluvioError> {
    let consumer = fluvio::consumer("hello-fluvio", 0).await?;
    let mut stream = consumer.stream(Offset::beginning()).await?;

    // Iterate over all events in the topic
    while let Some(Ok(record)) = stream.next().await {
        let string = String::from_utf8_lossy(&record.as_ref());
        println!("Got record: {}", string);
    }
    Ok(())
}

This consumer opens an async stream and listens for new events to appear on the hello-world topic. When we run it, it will print out every message ever sent to the topic because we told it to start reading from the Offset::beginning(), or the beginning of the topic.

Let’s hook up our consumer code into our main function. We don’t want to run both the producer and the consumer at the same time, so let’s set up some simple command-line arguments so we can choose whether to run the producer or the consumer.

#[async_std::main]
async fn main() {
    // Collect our arguments into a slice of &str
    let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().collect();
    let args_slice: Vec<&str> = args.iter().map(|s| &**s).collect();

    let result = match &*args_slice {
        [_, "produce"] => {
            produce("Hello, Fluvio!").await
        },
        [_, "consume"] => {
            consume().await
        },
        _ => {
            println!("Usage: hello-fluvio [produce|consume]");
            return;
        },
    };

    if let Err(err) = result {
        println!("Got error: {}", err);
    }
}

Now we can run cargo run -- produce to send messages, or cargo run -- consume to read them back. Let’s try out our consumer code now:

$ cargo run -- consume
Hello, Fluvio!

In another terminal window, let’s run your producer one more time

$ cargo run -- produce

You should see another Hello, Fluvio! message appear in your consumer window! You’ve successfully communicated messages between two processes by streaming them with Fluvio.

Bonus: Send your own messages

Let’s do something fun and send custom messages with our producer! We can make the producer send any text that was typed after the produce command like this:

#[async_std::main]
async fn main() {
    // Collect our arguments into a slice of &str
    let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().collect();
    let args_slice: Vec<&str> = args.iter().map(|s| &**s).collect();

    let result = match &*args_slice {
        [_, "produce"] => {
            produce("Hello, Fluvio!").await
        },
        [_, "produce", rest @ ..] => {
            let message = rest.join(" ");
            produce(&message).await
        },
        [_, "consume"] => {
            consume().await
        },
        _ => {
            println!("Usage: hello-fluvio [produce|consume]");
            return;
        },
    };

    if let Err(err) = result {
        println!("Got error: {}", err);
    }
}

Now you can send whatever messages you like! Let’s try it out

$ cargo run -- produce Hello, World! 🎉

And in your consumer window, you should see it appear!

$ cargo run -- consume
Hello, Fluvio!
Hello, World! 🎉

Congratulations!

You’ve now completed the Fluvio “Hello, World! 🎉” tutorial!

Checkout Fluvio Rust API on docs.rs to learn more about writing your own Fluvio applications in Rust.

Prerequisites

Create a Topic using the Fluvio CLI

Creating a new Cargo project

Create Producer/Consumer

Bonus: Send your own messages

Congratulations!