Subscribe to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

The following examples show you how to retrieve and process data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using the subscribeToShard method. Kinesis Data Streams now employs the enhanced fanout feature and a low-latency HTTP/2 data retrieval API, making it easier for developers to run multiple low-latency, high-performance applications on the same Kinesis Data Stream.

Set up

First, create an asynchronous Kinesis client and a SubscribeToShardRequest object. These objects are used in each of the following examples to subscribe to Kinesis events.

Imports

import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
import org.reactivestreams.Subscriber;
import org.reactivestreams.Subscription;
import software.amazon.awssdk.core.async.SdkPublisher;
import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.KinesisAsyncClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.ShardIteratorType;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardEvent;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardEventStream;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardRequest;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardResponse;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardResponseHandler;

Code

        Region region = Region.US_EAST_1;
        KinesisAsyncClient client = KinesisAsyncClient.builder()
        .region(region)
        .build();

        SubscribeToShardRequest request = SubscribeToShardRequest.builder()
                .consumerARN(CONSUMER_ARN)
                .shardId("arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-1:111122223333:stream/StockTradeStream")
                .startingPosition(s -> s.type(ShardIteratorType.LATEST)).build();

Use the builder interface

You can use the builder method to simplify the creation of the SubscribeToShardResponseHandler.

Using the builder, you can set each lifecycle callback with a method call instead of implementing the full interface.

Code

    private static CompletableFuture<Void> responseHandlerBuilder(KinesisAsyncClient client, SubscribeToShardRequest request) {
        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler responseHandler = SubscribeToShardResponseHandler
                .builder()
                .onError(t -> System.err.println("Error during stream - " + t.getMessage()))
                .onComplete(() -> System.out.println("All records stream successfully"))
                // Must supply some type of subscriber
                .subscriber(e -> System.out.println("Received event - " + e))
                .build();
        return client.subscribeToShard(request, responseHandler);
    }

For more control of the publisher, you can use the publisherTransformer method to customize the publisher.

Code

    private static CompletableFuture<Void> responseHandlerBuilderPublisherTransformer(KinesisAsyncClient client, SubscribeToShardRequest request) {
        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler responseHandler = SubscribeToShardResponseHandler
                .builder()
                .onError(t -> System.err.println("Error during stream - " + t.getMessage()))
                .publisherTransformer(p -> p.filter(e -> e instanceof SubscribeToShardEvent).limit(100))
                .subscriber(e -> System.out.println("Received event - " + e))
                .build();
        return client.subscribeToShard(request, responseHandler);
    }

See the complete example on GitHub.

Use a custom response handler

For full control of the subscriber and publisher, implement the SubscribeToShardResponseHandler interface.

In this example, you implement the onEventStream method, which allows you full access to the publisher. This demonstrates how to transform the publisher to event records for printing by the subscriber.

Code

    private static CompletableFuture<Void> responseHandlerBuilderClassic(KinesisAsyncClient client, SubscribeToShardRequest request) {
        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler responseHandler = new SubscribeToShardResponseHandler() {

            @Override
            public void responseReceived(SubscribeToShardResponse response) {
                System.out.println("Receieved initial response");
            }

            @Override
            public void onEventStream(SdkPublisher<SubscribeToShardEventStream> publisher) {
                publisher
                        // Filter to only SubscribeToShardEvents
                        .filter(SubscribeToShardEvent.class)
                        // Flat map into a publisher of just records
                        .flatMapIterable(SubscribeToShardEvent::records)
                        // Limit to 1000 total records
                        .limit(1000)
                        // Batch records into lists of 25
                        .buffer(25)
                        // Print out each record batch
                        .subscribe(batch -> System.out.println("Record Batch - " + batch));
            }

            @Override
            public void complete() {
                System.out.println("All records stream successfully");
            }

            @Override
            public void exceptionOccurred(Throwable throwable) {
                System.err.println("Error during stream - " + throwable.getMessage());
            }
        };
        return client.subscribeToShard(request, responseHandler);
    }

See the complete example on GitHub.

Use the visitor interface

You can use a Visitor object to subscribe to specific events you’re interested in watching.

Code

    private static CompletableFuture<Void> responseHandlerBuilderVisitorBuilder(KinesisAsyncClient client, SubscribeToShardRequest request) {
        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler.Visitor visitor = SubscribeToShardResponseHandler.Visitor
                .builder()
                .onSubscribeToShardEvent(e -> System.out.println("Received subscribe to shard event " + e))
                .build();
        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler responseHandler = SubscribeToShardResponseHandler
                .builder()
                .onError(t -> System.err.println("Error during stream - " + t.getMessage()))
                .subscriber(visitor)
                .build();
        return client.subscribeToShard(request, responseHandler);
    }

See the complete example on GitHub.

Use a custom subscriber

You can also implement your own custom subscriber to subscribe to the stream.

This code snippet shows an example subscriber.

Code

    private static class MySubscriber implements Subscriber<SubscribeToShardEventStream> {

        private Subscription subscription;
        private AtomicInteger eventCount = new AtomicInteger(0);

        @Override
        public void onSubscribe(Subscription subscription) {
            this.subscription = subscription;
            this.subscription.request(1);
        }

        @Override
        public void onNext(SubscribeToShardEventStream shardSubscriptionEventStream) {
            System.out.println("Received event " + shardSubscriptionEventStream);
            if (eventCount.incrementAndGet() >= 100) {
                // You can cancel the subscription at any time if you wish to stop receiving events.
                subscription.cancel();
            }
            subscription.request(1);
        }

        @Override
        public void onError(Throwable throwable) {
            System.err.println("Error occurred while stream - " + throwable.getMessage());
        }

        @Override
        public void onComplete() {
            System.out.println("Finished streaming all events");
        }
    }

You can pass the custom subscriber to the subscribe method as shown in the following code snippet.

Code

    private static CompletableFuture<Void> responseHandlerBuilderSubscriber(KinesisAsyncClient client, SubscribeToShardRequest request) {
        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler responseHandler = SubscribeToShardResponseHandler
                .builder()
                .onError(t -> System.err.println("Error during stream - " + t.getMessage()))
                .subscriber(MySubscriber::new)
                .build();
        return client.subscribeToShard(request, responseHandler);
    }

See the complete example on GitHub.

Write data records into a Kinesis data stream

You can use the KinesisClient object to write data records into a Kinesis data stream by using the putRecords method. To successfully invoke this method, create a PutRecordsRequest object. You pass the name of the data stream to the streamName method. Also you must pass the data by using the putRecords method (as shown in the following code example).

Imports

import software.amazon.awssdk.core.SdkBytes;
import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.KinesisClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.PutRecordRequest;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.KinesisException;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.DescribeStreamRequest;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.DescribeStreamResponse;

In the following Java code example, notice that StockTrade object is used as the data to write to the Kinesis data stream. Before running this example, ensure that you have created the data stream.

Code

import software.amazon.awssdk.core.SdkBytes;
import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.KinesisClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.PutRecordRequest;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.KinesisException;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.DescribeStreamRequest;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.DescribeStreamResponse;

/**
 * Before running this Java V2 code example, set up your development
 * environment, including your credentials.
 *
 * For more information, see the following documentation topic:
 *
 * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/get-started.html
 */
public class StockTradesWriter {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final String usage = """

                Usage:
                    <streamName>

                Where:
                    streamName - The Amazon Kinesis data stream to which records are written (for example, StockTradeStream)
                """;

        if (args.length != 1) {
            System.out.println(usage);
            System.exit(1);
        }

        String streamName = args[0];
        Region region = Region.US_EAST_1;
        KinesisClient kinesisClient = KinesisClient.builder()
                .region(region)
                .build();

        // Ensure that the Kinesis Stream is valid.
        validateStream(kinesisClient, streamName);
        setStockData(kinesisClient, streamName);
        kinesisClient.close();
    }

    public static void setStockData(KinesisClient kinesisClient, String streamName) {
        try {
            // Repeatedly send stock trades with a 100 milliseconds wait in between.
            StockTradeGenerator stockTradeGenerator = new StockTradeGenerator();

            // Put in 50 Records for this example.
            int index = 50;
            for (int x = 0; x < index; x++) {
                StockTrade trade = stockTradeGenerator.getRandomTrade();
                sendStockTrade(trade, kinesisClient, streamName);
                Thread.sleep(100);
            }

        } catch (KinesisException | InterruptedException e) {
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
            System.exit(1);
        }
        System.out.println("Done");
    }

    private static void sendStockTrade(StockTrade trade, KinesisClient kinesisClient,
            String streamName) {
        byte[] bytes = trade.toJsonAsBytes();

        // The bytes could be null if there is an issue with the JSON serialization by
        // the Jackson JSON library.
        if (bytes == null) {
            System.out.println("Could not get JSON bytes for stock trade");
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Putting trade: " + trade);
        PutRecordRequest request = PutRecordRequest.builder()
                .partitionKey(trade.getTickerSymbol()) // We use the ticker symbol as the partition key, explained in
                                                       // the Supplemental Information section below.
                .streamName(streamName)
                .data(SdkBytes.fromByteArray(bytes))
                .build();

        try {
            kinesisClient.putRecord(request);
        } catch (KinesisException e) {
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    private static void validateStream(KinesisClient kinesisClient, String streamName) {
        try {
            DescribeStreamRequest describeStreamRequest = DescribeStreamRequest.builder()
                    .streamName(streamName)
                    .build();

            DescribeStreamResponse describeStreamResponse = kinesisClient.describeStream(describeStreamRequest);

            if (!describeStreamResponse.streamDescription().streamStatus().toString().equals("ACTIVE")) {
                System.err.println("Stream " + streamName + " is not active. Please wait a few moments and try again.");
                System.exit(1);
            }

        } catch (KinesisException e) {
            System.err.println("Error found while describing the stream " + streamName);
            System.err.println(e);
            System.exit(1);
        }
    }
}

See the complete example on GitHub.

Use a third-party library

You can use other third-party libraries instead of implementing a custom subscriber. This example demonstrates using the RxJava implementation, but you can use any library that implements the Reactive Streams interfaces. See the RxJava wiki page on Github for more information on that library.

To use the library, add it as a dependency. If you’re using Maven, the example shows the POM snippet to use.

POM Entry

<dependency>
 <groupId>io.reactivex.rxjava2</groupId>
 <artifactId>rxjava</artifactId>
 <version>2.2.21</version>
</dependency>

Imports

import java.net.URI;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;

import io.reactivex.Flowable;
import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.ProfileCredentialsProvider;
import software.amazon.awssdk.core.async.SdkPublisher;
import software.amazon.awssdk.http.Protocol;
import software.amazon.awssdk.http.SdkHttpConfigurationOption;
import software.amazon.awssdk.http.nio.netty.NettyNioAsyncHttpClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.KinesisAsyncClient;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.ShardIteratorType;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.StartingPosition;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardEvent;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardRequest;
import software.amazon.awssdk.services.kinesis.model.SubscribeToShardResponseHandler;
import software.amazon.awssdk.utils.AttributeMap;

This example uses RxJava in the onEventStream lifecycle method. This gives you full access to the publisher, which can be used to create an Rx Flowable.

Code

        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler responseHandler = SubscribeToShardResponseHandler
            .builder()
            .onError(t -> System.err.println("Error during stream - " + t.getMessage()))
            .onEventStream(p -> Flowable.fromPublisher(p)
                                        .ofType(SubscribeToShardEvent.class)
                                        .flatMapIterable(SubscribeToShardEvent::records)
                                        .limit(1000)
                                        .buffer(25)
                                        .subscribe(e -> System.out.println("Record batch = " + e)))
            .build();

You can also use the publisherTransformer method with the Flowable publisher. You must adapt the Flowable publisher to an SdkPublisher, as shown in the following example.

Code

        SubscribeToShardResponseHandler responseHandler = SubscribeToShardResponseHandler
            .builder()
            .onError(t -> System.err.println("Error during stream - " + t.getMessage()))
            .publisherTransformer(p -> SdkPublisher.adapt(Flowable.fromPublisher(p).limit(100)))
            .build();

See the complete example on GitHub.

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