edx_event_bus_redis

Purpose

Redis Streams implementation for the Open edX event bus.

Overview

This package implements an event bus for Open EdX using Redis streams.

The event bus acts as a broker between services publishing events and other services that consume these events.

This package contains both the publishing code, which processes events into messages to send to the stream, and the consumer code, which polls the stream using a while True loop in order to turn messages back into django signal to be emitted. This django signal contains event data which can be consumed by the host application which does the actual event handling. The actual Redis host is configurable.

The repository works together with the openedx/openedx-events repository to make the fully functional event bus.

Documentation

To use this implementation of the Event Bus with openedx-events, you'll need to ensure that below the following Django settings are set:

# redis connection url
# https://redis.readthedocs.io/en/stable/examples/ssl_connection_examples.html#Connecting-to-a-Redis-instance-via-a-URL-string
EVENT_BUS_REDIS_CONNECTION_URL: redis://:password@localhost:6379/
EVENT_BUS_TOPIC_PREFIX: dev

# Required, on the producing side only:
# https://github.com/openedx/openedx-events/blob/06635f3642cee4020d6787df68bba694bd1233fe/openedx_events/event_bus/__init__.py#L105-L112
# This will load a producer class which can send events to redis streams.
EVENT_BUS_PRODUCER: edx_event_bus_redis.create_producer

# Required, on the consumer side only:
# https://github.com/openedx/openedx-events/blob/06635f3642cee4020d6787df68bba694bd1233fe/openedx_events/event_bus/__init__.py#L150-L157
# This will load a consumer class which can consume events from redis streams.
EVENT_BUS_CONSUMER: edx_event_bus_redis.RedisEventConsumer

Optional settings that are worth considering:

# If the consumer encounters this many consecutive errors, exit with an error. This is intended to be used in a context where a management system (such as Kubernetes) will relaunch the consumer automatically.
EVENT_BUS_REDIS_CONSUMER_CONSECUTIVE_ERRORS_LIMIT (defaults to None)

# How long the consumer should wait for new entries in a stream.
# As we are running the consumer in a while True loop, changing this setting doesn't make much difference
# expect for changing number of monitoring messages while waiting for new events.
# https://redis.io/commands/xread/#blocking-for-data
EVENT_BUS_REDIS_CONSUMER_POLL_TIMEOUT (defaults to 60 seconds)

# Limits stream size to approximately this number
EVENT_BUS_REDIS_STREAM_MAX_LEN (defaults to 10_000)

For manual local testing, see Testing locally section below.

Getting Started

Developing

One Time Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone [email protected]:openedx/event-bus-redis.git
cd event-bus-redis

# Set up a virtualenv using virtualenvwrapper with the same name as the repo and activate it
mkvirtualenv -p python3.11 event-bus-redis

Every time you develop something in this repo

# Activate the virtualenv
workon event-bus-redis

# Grab the latest code
git checkout main
git pull

# Install/update the dev requirements
make requirements

# Run the tests and quality checks (to verify the status before you make any changes)
make validate

# Make a new branch for your changes
git checkout -b <your_github_username>/<short_description>

# Using your favorite editor, edit the code to make your change.
vim ...

# Run your new tests
pytest ./path/to/new/tests

# Run all the tests and quality checks
make validate

# Commit all your changes
git commit ...
git push

# Open a PR and ask for review.

Testing locally

• Please execute below commands in virtual environment to avoid messing with your main python installation.
• Install all dependencies using make requirements
• Run make redis-up in current directory.
• Run make consume_test_event to start running a single consumer or make multiple_consumer_test_event to run two consumers with different consumer names.
• Run make produce_test_event in a separate terminal to produce a fake event, the consumer should log this event.
• You can also add a fake handler to test emitted signal via consumer. Add below code snippet to edx_event_bus_redis/internal/consumer.py.

from django.dispatch import receiver
from openedx_events.content_authoring.signals import XBLOCK_DELETED
@receiver(XBLOCK_DELETED)
def deleted_handler(sender, signal, **kwargs):
    print(f"""=======================================  signal: {signal}""")
    print(f"""=======================================  kwargs: {kwargs}""")

Deploying

After setting up required configuration, events are produced using the openedx_events.get_producer().send() method which needs to be called from the producing side. For more information, visit this link.

To consume events, openedx_events provides a management command called consume_events which can be called like so:

# consume events from topic xblock-status
python manage.py consume_events --topic xblock-status --group_id test_group --extra '{"consumer_name": "test_group.c1"}'

# replay events from specific redis msg id
python manage.py consume_events --topic xblock-deleted --group_id test_group --extra '{"consumer_name": "test_group.c1", "last_read_msg_id": "1679676448892-0"}'

# process all messages that were not read by this consumer group.
python manage.py consume_events -t user-login -g user-activity-service --extra '{"check_backlog": true, "consumer_name": "c1"}'

# claim messages pending for more than 30 minutes (1,800,000 milliseconds) from other consumers in the group.
python manage.py consume_events -t user-login -g user-activity-service --extra '{"claim_msgs_older_than": 1800000, "consumer_name": "c1"}'

Note that the consumer_name in --extra argument is required for redis event bus as this name uniquely identifies the consumer in a group and helps with tracking processed and pending messages.

If required, you can also replay events i.e. process messages from a specific point in history.

# replay events from specific redis msg id
python manage.py consume_events --signal org.openedx.content_authoring.xblock.deleted.v1 --topic xblock-deleted --group_id test_group --extra '{"consumer_name": "c1", "last_read_msg_id": "1684306039300-0"}'

The redis message id can be found from the producer logs in the host application, example:

Message delivered to Redis event bus: topic=dev-xblock-deleted, message_id=ab289110-f47e-11ed-bd90-1c83413013cb, signal=<OpenEdxPublicSignal: org.openedx.content_authoring.xblock.deleted.v1>, redis_msg_id=b'1684306039300-0'

Getting Help

Documentation

PLACEHOLDER: Start by going through the documentation. If you need more help see below.

(TODO: Set up documentation)

More Help

If you're having trouble, we have discussion forums at https://discuss.openedx.org where you can connect with others in the community.

Our real-time conversations are on Slack. You can request a Slack invitation, then join our community Slack workspace.

For anything non-trivial, the best path is to open an issue in this repository with as many details about the issue you are facing as you can provide.

https://github.com/openedx/event-bus-redis/issues

For more information about these options, see the Getting Help page.

License

The code in this repository is licensed under the AGPL 3.0 unless otherwise noted.

Please see LICENSE.txt for details.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. Please read How To Contribute for details.

This project is currently accepting all types of contributions, bug fixes, security fixes, maintenance work, or new features. However, please make sure to have a discussion about your new feature idea with the maintainers prior to beginning development to maximize the chances of your change being accepted. You can start a conversation by creating a new issue on this repo summarizing your idea.

The Open edX Code of Conduct

All community members are expected to follow the Open edX Code of Conduct.

People

The assigned maintainers for this component and other project details may be found in Backstage. Backstage pulls this data from the catalog-info.yaml file in this repo.

Reporting Security Issues

Please do not report security issues in public. Please email [email protected].