nats

Testcontainers Extensions Nats

Testcontainers Nats Extension with advanced testing capabilities.

Features:

• Container easy run per method, per class, per execution.
• NatsProducer for easy testing with asserts.
• NatsConsumer for easy testing with asserts.

Dependency 🚀

Gradle

testImplementation "io.goodforgod:testcontainers-extensions-nats:0.13.0"

Maven

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.goodforgod</groupId>
    <artifactId>testcontainers-extensions-nats</artifactId>
    <version>0.13.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Nats Client

Nats Client must be on classpath, if it is somehow not on your classpath already, don't forget to add:

Gradle

testRuntimeOnly "io.nats:jnats:2.22.0"

Maven

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.nats</groupId>
    <artifactId>jnats</artifactId>
    <version>2.22.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Content

• Usage
• Connection
• Annotation
  • Manual Container
  • Setup topics
  • Connection
  • Properties
  • External Connection
• Producer
• Consumer

Usage

Test with container start in PER_RUN mode and topic reset per method will look like:

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_RUN,
        topics = @Topics(value = "my-topic-name", reset = Topics.Mode.PER_METHOD))
class ExampleTests {

  @ConnectionNats 
  private NatsConnection connection;
  
  @Test
  void test() {
    var consumer = connection.subscribe("my-topic-name");
    connection.send("my-topic-name", Event.ofValue("value1"), Event.ofValue("value2"));
    consumer.assertReceivedAtLeast(2, Duration.ofSeconds(5));
  }
}

Connection

NatsConnection is an abstraction with asserting data in database container and easily manipulate container connection settings. You can inject connection via @ConnectionNats as field or method argument or manually create it from container or manual settings.

NatsConnection allow you to create consumers and send messages to Nats for easier testing and asserting.

class ExampleTests {

  private static final NatsContainer container = new NatsContainer();

  @Test
  void test() {
      container.start();
      NatsConnection connection = NatsConnection.forContainer(container);

      var consumer = connection.subscribe("my-topic-name");
      connection.send("my-topic-name", Event.ofValue("value1"), Event.ofValue("value2"));
      consumer.assertReceivedAtLeast(2, Duration.ofSeconds(5));
  }
}

Annotation

@TestcontainersNats - allow automatically start container with specified image in different modes without the need to configure it.

Available containers modes:

• PER_RUN - start container one time per test execution. (Containers must have same instance, e.g. compare by ==)
• PER_CLASS - start new container each test class.
• PER_METHOD - start new container each test method.

Simple example on how to start container per class, no need to configure container:

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_CLASS)
class ExampleTests {

    @Test
    void test() {
        // test
    }
}

That's all you need.

It is possible to customize image with annotation image parameter.

Image also can be provided from environment variable:

@TestcontainersNats(image = "${MY_IMAGE_ENV|nats:2.11-alpine}")
class ExampleTests {

    @Test
    void test() {
        // test
    }
}

Image syntax:

• Image can have static value: nats:2.11-alpine
• Image can be provided via environment variable using syntax: ${MY_IMAGE_ENV}
• Image environment variable can have default value if empty using syntax: ${MY_IMAGE_ENV|nats:2.11-alpine}

Manual Container

When you need to manually configure container with specific options, you can provide such container as instance that will be used by @TestcontainersNats, this can be done using @ContainerNats annotation for container.

Example:

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_CLASS)
class ExampleTests {

    @ContainerNats
    private static final NatsContainer container = new NatsContainer(DockerImageName.parse("nats:2.11-alpine"));

    @Test
    void checkParams(@ConnectionNats NatsConnection connection) {
        assertNotNull(connection.params().boostrapServers());
        assertNotNull(connection.params().properties());
    }
}

Network

In case you want to enable Network.SHARED for containers you can do this using network & shared parameter in annotation:

@TestcontainersNats(network = @Network(shared = true))
class ExampleTests {

    @Test
    void test() {
        // test
    }
}

Default alias will be created by default, even if nothing was specified (depends on implementation).

You can provide also custom alias for container. Alias can be extracted from environment variable also or default value can be provided if environment is missing.

In case specified environment variable is missing default alias will be created:

@TestcontainersNats(network = @Network(alias = "${MY_ALIAS_ENV|my_default_alias}"))
class ExampleTests {

    @Test
    void test() {
        // test
    }
}

Image syntax:

• Image can have static value: my-alias
• Image can be provided via environment variable using syntax: ${MY_ALIAS_ENV}
• Image environment variable can have default value if empty using syntax: ${MY_ALIAS_ENV|my-alias-default}

Annotation Topics

It is possible configure topics for creation right after Nats container started (or before test class started if ContainerMode is PER_RUN), such topics will be created if not exist. This can be useful in tests before tested application started and connected to Nats, especially with Consumers.

Example:

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_CLASS, topics = @Topics("my-topic"))
class ExampleTests {

}

It is also possible to reset topics if needed per test class or per test method:

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_CLASS, 
                     topics = @Topics(value = "my-topic", reset = Topics.Mode.PER_METHOD))
class ExampleTests {

}

Annotation Connection

NatsConnection - can be injected to field or method parameter and used to communicate with running container via @ConnectionNats annotation. NatsConnection provides nats properties, ability to send events to nats or consume events from nats for easier testing.

Annotation Properties

It is possible to provide custom properties to @NatsConnection that will be applied to Produces and Consumers that are created during tests.

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_CLASS, image = "nats:2.11-alpine")
class ExampleTests {

    @ConnectionNats(properties = {"enable.auto.commit", "true"})
    private NatsConnection connection;
}

External Connection

In case you want to use some external Nats instance that is running in CI or other place for tests (due to docker limitations or other), you can use special environment variables and extension will use them to propagate connection and no Nats containers will be running in such case.

Special environment variables:

• EXTERNAL_TEST_NATS_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS - Nats instance boostrap server.
• Prefix EXTERNAL_TEST_NATS_ - any environmental variable with prefix EXTERNAL_TEST_NATS_ will be converted and used for NatsConnection.

Prefix EXTERNAL_TEST_NATS_ conversion rules: Cut prefix and lower case and replace _ with ..

Producer

You can easily send events to any topic (if topic not exist before sending, it will be automatically created).

Example:

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_CLASS, image = "nats:2.11-alpine")
class ExampleTests {

    @ConnectionNats
    private NatsConnection connection;

    @Test
    void test() {
        connection.send("my-topic-name", Event.ofValue("{\"name\":\"User\"}"));
    }
}

Consumer

You can easily subscribe and consume events from any topic (if topic not exist before subscribing, it will be automatically created).

Example:

@TestcontainersNats(mode = ContainerMode.PER_CLASS, image = "nats:2.11-alpine")
class ExampleTests {

    @ConnectionNats
    private NatsConnection connection;

    @Test
    void test() {
        // given
        var consumer = connection.subscribe("my-topic-name");
        
        // when
        connection.send("my-topic-name", Event.ofValue("value1"), Event.ofValue("value2"));
        
        // then
        consumer.assertReceivedAtLeast(2, Duration.ofSeconds(5));
    }
}

License

This project licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.