Dapr uses CloudEvents to provide additional context to the event payload, enabling features like:
For more information about CloudEvents, read the CloudEvents specification.
When adding Dapr to your application, some services may still need to communicate via raw pub/sub messages not encapsulated in CloudEvents. This may be for compatibility reasons, or because some apps are not using Dapr. Dapr enables apps to publish and subscribe to raw events that are not wrapped in a CloudEvent.
Dapr apps are able to publish raw events to pub/sub topics without CloudEvent encapsulation, for compatibility with non-Dapr apps.
To disable CloudEvent wrapping, set the rawPayload
metadata to true
as part of the publishing request. This allows subscribers to receive these messages without having to parse the CloudEvent schema.
curl -X "POST" http://localhost:3500/v1.0/publish/pubsub/TOPIC_A?metadata.rawPayload=true -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"order-number": "345"}'
from dapr.clients import DaprClient
with DaprClient() as d:
req_data = {
'order-number': '345'
}
# Create a typed message with content type and body
resp = d.publish_event(
pubsub_name='pubsub',
topic='TOPIC_A',
data=json.dumps(req_data),
metadata=(
('rawPayload', 'true')
)
)
# Print the request
print(req_data, flush=True)
<?php
require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
$app = \Dapr\App::create();
$app->run(function(\DI\FactoryInterface $factory) {
$publisher = $factory->make(\Dapr\PubSub\Publish::class, ['pubsub' => 'pubsub']);
$publisher->topic('TOPIC_A')->publish('data', ['rawPayload' => 'true']);
});
Dapr apps are also able to subscribe to raw events coming from existing pub/sub topics that do not use CloudEvent encapsulation.
When subscribing programmatically, add the additional metadata entry for rawPayload
so the Dapr sidecar automatically wraps the payloads into a CloudEvent that is compatible with current Dapr SDKs.
import flask
from flask import request, jsonify
from flask_cors import CORS
import json
import sys
app = flask.Flask(__name__)
CORS(app)
@app.route('/dapr/subscribe', methods=['GET'])
def subscribe():
subscriptions = [{'pubsubname': 'pubsub',
'topic': 'deathStarStatus',
'route': 'dsstatus',
'metadata': {
'rawPayload': 'true',
} }]
return jsonify(subscriptions)
@app.route('/dsstatus', methods=['POST'])
def ds_subscriber():
print(request.json, flush=True)
return json.dumps({'success':True}), 200, {'ContentType':'application/json'}
app.run()
<?php
require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
$app = \Dapr\App::create(configure: fn(\DI\ContainerBuilder $builder) => $builder->addDefinitions(['dapr.subscriptions' => [
new \Dapr\PubSub\Subscription(pubsubname: 'pubsub', topic: 'deathStarStatus', route: '/dsstatus', metadata: [ 'rawPayload' => 'true'] ),
]]));
$app->post('/dsstatus', function(
#[\Dapr\Attributes\FromBody]
\Dapr\PubSub\CloudEvent $cloudEvent,
\Psr\Log\LoggerInterface $logger
) {
$logger->alert('Received event: {event}', ['event' => $cloudEvent]);
return ['status' => 'SUCCESS'];
}
);
$app->start();
Subscription Custom Resources Definitions (CRDs) do not currently contain metadata attributes (issue #3225). At this time subscribing to raw events can only be done through programmatic subscriptions.