Effortless event stream integration for your services

FastStream is a powerful and easy-to-use Python library for building asynchronous services that interact with event streams. Built on top of Pydantic and AsyncAPI, FastStream simplifies the process of writing producers and consumers for message queues, handling all the parsing, networking, task scheduling and data generation automatically. With FastStream, you can quickly prototype and develop high-performance event-based services with minimal code, making it an ideal choice for developers looking to streamline their workflow and accelerate their projects.

FastStream is a new package based on the ideas and experiences gained from FastKafka and Propan. By joining our forces, we picked up the best from both packages and created the unified way to write services capable of processing streamed data regradless of the underliying protocol.

We'll continue to maintain both packages, but new development will be in this project. If you are starting a new service, this package is the recommended way to do it.

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FastStream works on Linux, macOS, Windows and most Unix-style operating systems. You can install it with pip as usual:

pip install faststream

Here is an example python app using FastStream that consumes data from a topic, increments the value, and outputs the data to another topic.

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, NonNegativeFloat

from faststream import FastStream, Logger
from faststream.kafka import KafkaBroker


class DataBasic(BaseModel):
    data: NonNegativeFloat = Field(
        ..., examples=[0.5], description="Float data example"
    )


broker = KafkaBroker("localhost:9092")
app = FastStream(broker)


@broker.publisher("output_data")
@broker.subscriber("input_data")
async def on_input_data(msg: DataBasic, logger: Logger) -> DataBasic:
    logger.info(msg)
    return DataBasic(data=msg.data + 1.0)

FastStream uses Pydantic to parse input JSON-encoded data into Python objects, making it easy to work with structured data in your Kafka-based applications. Pydantic’s BaseModel class allows you to define messages using a declarative syntax, making it easy to specify the fields and types of your messages.

This example defines one message class for use in a FastStream application, Data.

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, NonNegativeFloat

from faststream import FastStream, Logger
from faststream.kafka import KafkaBroker


class DataBasic(BaseModel):
    data: NonNegativeFloat = Field(
        ..., examples=[0.5], description="Float data example"
    )

# Code below omitted 👇

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, NonNegativeFloat

from faststream import FastStream, Logger
from faststream.kafka import KafkaBroker


class DataBasic(BaseModel):
    data: NonNegativeFloat = Field(
        ..., examples=[0.5], description="Float data example"
    )


broker = KafkaBroker("localhost:9092")
app = FastStream(broker)


@broker.publisher("output_data")
@broker.subscriber("input_data")
async def on_input_data(msg: DataBasic, logger: Logger) -> DataBasic:
    logger.info(msg)
    return DataBasic(data=msg.data + 1.0)

These message class will be used to parse and validate incoming data when consuming and to produce a JSON-encoded message when producing. Using Pydantic’s BaseModel in combination with FastStream makes it easy to work with structured data in your Event-based applications.

This example shows how to initialize a FastStream application.

It starts by initialising a Broker object with the address of the Message broker.

Next, an object of the FastStream class is created and a Broker object is passed to it.

# Code above omitted 👆

broker = KafkaBroker("localhost:9092")
app = FastStream(broker)

# Code below omitted 👇

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, NonNegativeFloat

from faststream import FastStream, Logger
from faststream.kafka import KafkaBroker


class DataBasic(BaseModel):
    data: NonNegativeFloat = Field(
        ..., examples=[0.5], description="Float data example"
    )


broker = KafkaBroker("localhost:9092")
app = FastStream(broker)


@broker.publisher("output_data")
@broker.subscriber("input_data")
async def on_input_data(msg: DataBasic, logger: Logger) -> DataBasic:
    logger.info(msg)
    return DataBasic(data=msg.data + 1.0)

FastStream brokers provide convenient function decorators @broker.subscriber and @broker.publisher to allow you to delegate the actual process of

• consuming and producing data to Event queues, and

• decoding and encoding JSON encoded messages

from user defined functions to the framework. The FastStream framework delegates these jobs to AIOKafka and Pydantic libraries.

These decorators make it easy to specify the processing logic for your consumers and producers, allowing you to focus on the core business logic of your application without worrying about the underlying integration.

This following example shows how to use the @broker.subscriber and @broker.publisher decorators in a FastStream application:

• The @broker.subscriber decorator is applied to the on_input_data function, which specifies that this function should be called whenever a message is received on the “input_data” Kafka topic. The on_input_data function takes a single argument which is expected to be an instance of the Data message class. Specifying the type of the single argument is instructing the Pydantic to use InputData.parse_raw() on the consumed message before passing it to the user defined function on_input_data.

• The @broker.publisher decorator is applied also to the on_input_data function, which specifies that this function should produce a message to the “output_data” topic whenever it is called. The on_input_data function takes the input data and creates a new Data message with incremented value and then returns it. The framework will call the Data.json().encode("utf-8") function on the returned value and produce it to the specified topic.

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, NonNegativeFloat

from faststream import FastStream, Logger
from faststream.kafka import KafkaBroker


class DataBasic(BaseModel):
    data: NonNegativeFloat = Field(
        ..., examples=[0.5], description="Float data example"
    )


broker = KafkaBroker("localhost:9092")
app = FastStream(broker)


@broker.publisher("output_data")
@broker.subscriber("input_data")
async def on_input_data(msg: DataBasic, logger: Logger) -> DataBasic:
    logger.info(msg)
    return DataBasic(data=msg.data + 1.0)

The service can be tested using the TestBroker context managers which, by default, puts the Broker into "testing mode".

The Tester will redirect your subscriber and publisher decorated functions to the InMemory brokers so that you can quickly test your app without the need for a running broker and all its dependencies.

Using pytest, the test for our service would look like this:

import pytest

from faststream.kafka import TestKafkaBroker

from .basic import DataBasic, broker, on_input_data


@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_base_app():
    @broker.subscriber("output_data")
    async def on_output_data(msg: DataBasic):
        pass

    async with TestKafkaBroker(broker):
        await broker.publish(DataBasic(data=0.2), "input_data")

        on_input_data.mock.assert_called_once_with(dict(DataBasic(data=0.2)))

        on_output_data.mock.assert_called_once_with(dict(DataBasic(data=1.2)))

First we pass our broker to the TestKafkaBroker

import pytest

from faststream.kafka import TestKafkaBroker

from .basic import DataBasic, broker, on_input_data


@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_base_app():
    @broker.subscriber("output_data")
    async def on_output_data(msg: DataBasic):
        pass

    async with TestKafkaBroker(broker):
        await broker.publish(DataBasic(data=0.2), "input_data")

        on_input_data.mock.assert_called_once_with(dict(DataBasic(data=0.2)))

        on_output_data.mock.assert_called_once_with(dict(DataBasic(data=1.2)))

After passing the broker to the TestKafkaBroker we can publish an event to "input_data" and check if the tested broker produced a response as a reaction to it.

To check the response, we registered an additional on_output_data subscriber which will capture events on "output_data" topic.

import pytest

from faststream.kafka import TestKafkaBroker

from .basic import DataBasic, broker, on_input_data


@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_base_app():
    @broker.subscriber("output_data")
    async def on_output_data(msg: DataBasic):
        pass

    async with TestKafkaBroker(broker):
        await broker.publish(DataBasic(data=0.2), "input_data")

        on_input_data.mock.assert_called_once_with(dict(DataBasic(data=0.2)))

        on_output_data.mock.assert_called_once_with(dict(DataBasic(data=1.2)))

The application can be started using builtin FastStream CLI command.

First we will save our application code to app.py file. Here is the application code again:

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, NonNegativeFloat

from faststream import FastStream, Logger
from faststream.kafka import KafkaBroker


class DataBasic(BaseModel):
    data: NonNegativeFloat = Field(
        ..., examples=[0.5], description="Float data example"
    )


broker = KafkaBroker("localhost:9092")
app = FastStream(broker)


@broker.publisher("output_data")
@broker.subscriber("input_data")
async def on_input_data(msg: DataBasic, logger: Logger) -> DataBasic:
    logger.info(msg)
    return DataBasic(data=msg.data + 1.0)

In order to get all Kafka or RabbitMQ related dependancies, you must install FastStream with the kafka or rabbit options, respectively:

pip install faststream[kafka]

To run the service, use the FastStream CLI command and pass the module (in this case, the file where the app implementation is located) and the app simbol to the command.

faststream run basic:app

After running the command you should see the following output:

INFO     - FastStream app starting...
INFO     - input_data |            - `OnInputData` waiting for messages
INFO     - FastStream app started successfully! To exit press CTRL+C

FastStream is licensed under the Apache License 2.0

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The full text of the license can be found here.

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