Stencil is dynamic schema registry for protobuf. Protobuf is a great efficient and fast mechanism for serializing structured data. The challenge with protobuf is that for every change it requires to recompile the package to generate the necessary classes. This is not a big challenge if you have protobuf enclosed in your application and compile at startup. But if you have thousands of protos stored in central registry and 100s of applications use them. Updating depndencies of compiled proto jar can soon become a nightmare.
Protobuf allows you to define a protobuf file using DescriptorSet. A FileDescriptorSet is basically a description of the proto file i.e. it’s name, it’s package name, it’s dependencies and the messages it contains. Once you have the descriptor file, you can simply read it in any language to create a FileDescriptor Object. Now any serialized ProtoMessage can be deserialized using DynamicMessage and ProtoMessage descriptor.
implementation group: 'io.odpf', name: 'stencil', version: '0.2.1'
<dependency>
<groupId>io.odpf</groupId>
<artifactId>stencil</artifactId>
<version>0.2.1</version>
</dependency>
Stencil client can be created in different modes.
import io.odpf.stencil.client.StencilClient;
import io.odpf.stencil.StencilClientFactory;
StencilClient stencilClient = StencilClientFactory.getClient();
import io.odpf.stencil.config.StencilConfig;
String url = "http://url/to/proto/descriptor-set/file";
StencilClient stencilClient = StencilClientFacorty.getClient(url, StencilConfig.builder().build());
import io.odpf.stencil.config.StencilConfig;
ArrayList<String> urls = new ArrayList<String>();
urls.add("http://localhost:8082/v1beta1/...");
StencilClient stencilClient = StencilClientFacorty.getClient(urls, StencilConfig.builder().build());
// From https://github.com/tim-group/java-statsd-client
import com.timgroup.statsd.StatsDClient;
import com.timgroup.statsd.NonBlockingStatsDClient;
StatsDClient statDClient = new NonBlockingStatsDClient("my.prefix", "statsd-host", 8125);
StencilClient stencilClient = StencilClientFactory.getClient(url, StencilConfig.builder().statsDClient(statsDClient).build());
Whenever schema has changed this listener will be called.
import io.odpf.stencil.SchemaUpdateListener;
SchemaUpdateListener updateListener = new SchemaUpdateListenerImpl();
StencilClient stencilClient = StencilClientFactory.getClient(url, StencilConfig.builder().updateListener(updateListener).build());
If url belongs to stencil server, client can choose to refresh schema data only if there is a new version available.
import io.odpf.stencil.cache.SchemaRefreshStrategy;
StencilConfig config = StencilConfig.builder().refreshStrategy(SchemaRefreshStrategy.versionBasedRefresh()).build();
StencilClient stencilClient = StencilClientFactory.getClient(url, config);
While sending request to specified URL, client can be configured to pass headers as well.
import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
Header authHeader = new BasicHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, "Bearer " + token);
List<Header> headers = new ArrayList<Header>();
headers.add(authHeader);
StencilConfig config = StencilConfig.builder().fetchHeaders(headers).build();
StencilClient stencilClient = StencilClientFactory.getClient(url, config);
Given the name of the Proto-Class StencilClient returns the Descriptor for it.
import com.google.protobuf.Descriptors;
import com.google.protobuf.DynamicMessage;
Descriptors.Descriptor descriptor = stencilClient.get(protoClassName);
import com.google.protobuf.Descriptors;
import com.google.protobuf.DynamicMessage;
Descriptors.Descriptor descriptor = stencilClient.get(protoClassName);
DynamicMessage message = DynamicMessage.parseFrom(descriptor, bytes);
import io.odpf.stencil.Parser;
import com.google.protobuf.DynamicMessage;
Parser protoParser = stencilClient.getParser("com.example.proto.schema");
DynamicMessage message = protoParser.parse(bytes)
The client is published and released via github workflow and uses github tag for versioning.
java-statsd-client
from com.timgroup
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