Hazelcast Go Client

Hazelcast is an open-source distributed in-memory data store and computation platform that provides a wide variety of distributed data structures and concurrency primitives.

Hazelcast Go client is a way to communicate to Hazelcast 4 and 5 clusters and access the cluster data.

Sample Code

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-go-client"
)

func main() {
	ctx := context.TODO()
	// create the client and connect to the cluster on localhost
	client, err := hazelcast.StartNewClient(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	// get a map
	people, err := client.GetMap(ctx, "people")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	personName := "Jane Doe"
	// set a value in the map
	if err = people.Set(ctx, personName, 30); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	// get a value from the map
	age, err := people.Get(ctx, personName)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("%s is %d years old.\n", personName, age)
	// stop the client to release resources
	client.Shutdown(ctx)
}

Features

• Distributed, partitioned and queryable in-memory key-value store implementation, called Map.
• Additional data structures and simple messaging constructs such as Replicated Map, MultiMap, Queue, List, PNCounter, Set, Topic and others.
• Support for serverless and traditional web service architectures with Unisocket and Smart operation modes.
• Go context support for all distributed data structures.
• Viridian integration.
• SQL support (only on Hazelcast 5.x).
• External smart client discovery.
• Hazelcast Management Center integration.
• Ability to listen to client lifecycle, cluster state, and distributed data structure events.
• And more...

Install

Requirements:

• Hazelcast Go client is compatible only with Hazelcast 4.x and 5.x.
• We support two most recent releases of Go, currently 1.17 and up.

In your Go module enabled project, add a dependency to github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-go-client:

# Depend on the latest release
$ go get github.com/hazelcast/hazelcast-go-client@latest

Quick Start

Hazelcast Go client requires a working Hazelcast cluster.

Check out our Get Started page for options.

Starting the Client with Viridian

You only need the cluster name and Viridian token to start the client. If you haven't already, you can sign up for a free Viridian account.

Check out our Viridian sample

Starting the Default Client

Start the client with the default Hazelcast host and port using hazelcast.StartNewClient, when Hazelcast is running on local with the default options:

ctx := context.TODO()
client, err := hazelcast.StartNewClient(ctx)
// handle client start error

Starting the Client with Given Options

Note that Config structs are not thread-safe. Complete creation of the configuration in a single goroutine.

// create the default configuration
config := hazelcast.Config{}
// optionally set member addresses manually
config.Cluster.Network.SetAddresses("member1.example.com:5701", "member2.example.com:5701")
// create and start the client with the configuration provider
client, err := hazelcast.StartNewClientWithConfig(ctx, config)
// handle client start error

Documentation

Hazelcast Go Client documentation is hosted at pkg.go.dev.

You can view the documentation locally by using godoc:

$ godoc -http=localhost:5500

godoc is not installed by default with the base Go distribution. Install it using:

$ go get -u golang.org/x/tools/...`

Support

Join us at Go Client channel or Hazelcast at Google Groups.

Running the tests

Currently, we support only Linux, MacOS and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for testing the client.

You need to have the following installed in order to run integration tests:

• Java 8
• Maven 3 or better
• Bash
• Make

Before running the tests, starts Hazelcast Remote Controller, which enables the test suite to create clusters:

# Start RC with Hazelcast Community features
$ ./rc.sh start

# Or, start RC with Hazelcast Enterprise features
$ HAZELCAST_ENTERPRISE_KEY=ENTERPRISE-KEY-HERE ./rc.sh start 

You can run the tests using one of the following approaches:

• Run make test-all to run integration tests.
• Run make test-all-race to run integration tests with race detection.
• Run make test-cover to generate the coverage report and make view-cover to view the test coverage summary and generate an HTML report.

Testing the client with SSL support requires running the remote controller with Hazelcast Enterprise features. To enable SSL connections, add ENABLE_SSL=1 to environment variables, or prepend it to the make commands above.

In order to turn on verbose logging, add ENABLE_TRACE=1 to environment variables, or prepend it to the make commands above.

License

Apache 2 License.

Copyright (c) 2008-2021, Hazelcast, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Visit www.hazelcast.com for more information.