Package com.hazelcast.topic

Interface ITopic<E>

Type Parameters:
E - the type of the message
All Superinterfaces:
DistributedObject
public interface ITopic<E> extends DistributedObject
Hazelcast provides distribution mechanism for publishing messages that are delivered to multiple subscribers, which is also known as a publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging model. Publish and subscriptions are cluster-wide.

When a member subscribes for a topic, it is actually registering for messages published by any member in the cluster, including the new members joined after you added the listener.

Messages are ordered, meaning that listeners(subscribers) will process the messages in the order they are actually published. If cluster member M publishes messages m1, m2, m3...mn to a topic T, then Hazelcast makes sure that all the subscribers of topic T will receive and process m1, m2, m3...mn in order.

Since Hazelcast 3.5 it is possible to have reliable topics. Normally all topics rely on the shared eventing system and shared threads. With Hazelcast 3.5 it is possible to configure a topic to be reliable and to get its own Ringbuffer to store events and to get its own executor to process events. The events in the ringbuffer are replicated, so they won't get lost when a node goes down.

  • Method Details

    • getName

      String getName()
      Returns the name of this ITopic instance.
      Specified by:
      getName in interface DistributedObject
      Returns:
      name of this ITopic instance

    • publish

      void publish(@Nonnull E message)
      Publishes the message to all subscribers of this topic.
      Parameters:
      message - the message to publish to all subscribers of this topic
      Throws:
      TopicOverloadException - if the consumer is too slow (only works in combination with reliable topic)

    • publishAsync

      CompletionStage<Void> publishAsync(@Nonnull E message)
      Publishes the message asynchronously to all subscribers of this topic.
      Parameters:
      message - the message to publish asynchronously to all subscribers of this topic
      Returns:
      the CompletionStage to synchronize on completion.

    • addMessageListener

      @Nonnull UUID addMessageListener(@Nonnull MessageListener<E> listener)
      Subscribes to this topic. When a message is published, the MessageListener.onMessage(Message) method of the given MessageListener is called. More than one message listener can be added on one instance. See ReliableMessageListener to better integrate with a reliable topic.
      Parameters:
      listener - the MessageListener to add
      Returns:
      returns the registration ID
      Throws:
      NullPointerException - if listener is null

    • removeMessageListener

      boolean removeMessageListener(@Nonnull UUID registrationId)
      Stops receiving messages for the given message listener.

      If the given listener already removed, this method does nothing.

      Parameters:
      registrationId - ID of listener registration
      Returns:
      true if registration is removed, false otherwise

    • publishAll

      void publishAll(@Nonnull Collection<? extends E> messages) throws ExecutionException, InterruptedException
      Publishes all messages to all subscribers of this topic.
      Parameters:
      messages - the messages to publish to all subscribers of this topic
      Throws:
      TopicOverloadException - if the consumer is too slow (only works in combination with reliable topic)
      ExecutionException
      InterruptedException

    • publishAllAsync

      CompletionStage<Void> publishAllAsync(@Nonnull Collection<? extends E> messages)
      Publishes all messages asynchronously to all subscribers of this topic.
      Parameters:
      messages - the messages to publish asynchronously to all subscribers of this topic
      Returns:
      the CompletionStage to synchronize on completion.