I wanted to test a very basic application for NATS-streaming on Kubernetes. To do so, I followed the commands from the official NATS-docs.
It basically comes down to running
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nats-io/k8s/master/nats-server/single-server-nats.yml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nats-io/k8s/master/nats-streaming-server/single-server-stan.yml
in a terminal with access to the cluster (it's a kind-cluster in my case).
I used stan.go
as the NATS-streaming-client. Here is the code I tried to connect to the NATS-streaming-server:
package main
import stan "github.com/nats-io/stan.go"
func main() {
sc, err := stan.Connect("stan", "test-client")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
if err := sc.Publish("test-subject", []byte("This is a test-message!")); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}
and this is the error I'm getting:
panic: nats: no servers available for connection
goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
/Users/thilt/tmp/main.go:9 +0x15d
exit status 2
so I think another name was used for the cluster or something. If I use the provided example with nats-box
from the docs.nats-link above, it also doesn't work! Where did I go wrong here?
I will happily provide more information, if needed.
There is a great example in stan.go docs:
// Connect to NATS
nc, err := nats.Connect(URL, opts...)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer nc.Close()
sc, err := stan.Connect(clusterID, clientID, stan.NatsConn(nc))
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Can't connect: %v.\nMake sure a NATS Streaming Server is running at: %s", err, URL)
}
defer sc.Close()
Your error happens because by default stan connects to localhost address (source code):
// DefaultNatsURL is the default URL the client connects to
DefaultNatsURL = "nats://127.0.0.1:4222"
Notice that povided above example overwrite this default connection.
Stan source code is short and easy to analyze. I really recommend you to try to analyze it and figure out what it does.
Now let's put it all together; here is a working example:
package main
import (
nats "github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
stan "github.com/nats-io/stan.go"
)
func main() {
// Create a NATS connection
nc, err := nats.Connect("nats://nats:4222")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// Then pass it to the stan.Connect() call.
sc, err := stan.Connect("stan", "me", stan.NatsConn(nc))
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
if err := sc.Publish("test-subject", []byte("This is a test-message!")); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}