quickstarts/pub_sub/csharp/sdk

Dapr pub/sub

In this quickstart, you'll create a publisher microservice and a subscriber microservice to demonstrate how Dapr enables a publish-subcribe pattern. The publisher will generate messages of a specific topic, while subscribers will listen for messages of specific topics. See Why Pub-Sub to understand when this pattern might be a good choice for your software architecture.

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Note: This example leverages the Dapr client SDK. If you are looking for the example using only HTTP click here.

This quickstart includes one publisher:

• Dotnet client message generator checkout

And one subscriber:

• Dotnet subscriber order-processor

Run all apps with multi-app run template file:

This section shows how to run both applications at once using multi-app run template files with dapr run -f .. This enables to you test the interactions between multiple applications.

1. Open a new terminal window and run the multi app run template:

dapr run -f .

The terminal console output should look similar to this:

== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 1 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 1 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 2 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 2 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 3 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 3 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 4 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 4 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 5 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 5 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 6 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 6 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 7 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 7 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 8 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 8 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 9 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 9 }
== APP - checkout-sdk == Published data: Order { OrderId = 10 }
== APP - order-processor-sdk == Subscriber received : Order { OrderId = 10 }

2. Stop and clean up application processes

dapr stop -f .

Run a single app at a time with Dapr (Optional)

An alternative to running all or multiple applications at once is to run single apps one-at-a-time using multiple dapr run .. -- dotnet run commands. This next section covers how to do this.

Run Dotnet message subscriber with Dapr

1. Run the Dotnet subscriber app with Dapr:

cd ./order-processor
dapr run --app-id order-processor-sdk --resources-path ../../../components/ --app-port 7006 -- dotnet run

Run Dotnet message publisher with Dapr

1. Run the Dotnet publisher app with Dapr:

cd ./checkout
dapr run --app-id checkout-sdk --resources-path ../../../components/ -- dotnet run

2. Stop and clean up application processes

dapr stop --app-id order-processor-sdk
dapr stop --app-id checkout-sdk