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Go into /_posts/ and update the Hello World markdown file. For more instructions head over to the [Jekyll Now repository](https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now) on GitHub. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_posts/2019-11-07-test-machine-test-env.md b/_posts/2019-11-07-test-machine-test-env.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..1a44e6ad896fe --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-11-07-test-machine-test-env.md @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: A Test Environment for Kafka Applications +--- + +In [Testing Event Driven +Systems](https://www.confluent.io/blog/testing-event-driven-systems), +I introduced the test-machine, (a Clojure library for testing kafka +applications) and included a simple example for demonstration +purposes. I made the claim that however your system is implemented, as +long as its input and output can be represented in Kafka, the +test-machine would be an effective tool for testing it. Now we’ve had +some time to put that claim to the...ahem test, I thought it might be +interesting to explore some actual use-cases in a bit more detail. + +Having spent a year or so of using the test-machine, I can now say +with increased confidence that it is an effective tool for +testing a variety of Kafka based systems. However with the benefit of +experience, I'd add that you might want to define your own domain +specific layer of helper functions on top so that your tests may bear +some resemblance to the discussion that happens in your sprint +planning meetings. The raw events represent a layer beneath what we +typically discuss with product owners. + +Hopefully the use-cases described in this forthcoming mini-series +will help clarify this concept and get you thinking about +how you might be able to apply the test-machine to solve your own +testing problems. + +Before getting into the actual use-cases though, let’s get a test environment +setup so we can quickly run experiments locally without having to deploy +our code to a shared testing environment. + +## Service Composition + +For each of these tests, we’ll be using docker-compose to setup the +test environment. There are other ways of providing a test-environment +but the nice thing about docker-compose is that when things go awry +you can blow away all test state and start again with a clean +environment. This makes the process of acquiring a test-environment +*repeatable*, and at least after the first time you do it, pretty +fast. On my machine, `docker-compose down && docker-compose up -d` +doesn’t usually take more than 5-10 seconds or so. If you have not +used the confluent images before, it might take a while to download +the images if you're not on the end of a fat internet pipe. + +Ideally you should be able to run your tests against a +test-environment with existing data. Your tests should create all the +data they need themselves and ignore any data that has been already +entered so acquiring a fresh test environment is not something you +should be doing for each test-run. Sometimes while developing a test, +it can help avoid confusing behavior to have a completely clean environment +but I wouldn't consider the test to be complete until it can be run +against a test environment with old data. + +Below is a base docker-compose file containing the core services from +Confluent that will be required to run these tests. Depending on what’s being +tested, we will need additional services to fully exercise the system +under test. The configuration choices are made with a view to minimizing +the memory required by the collection of services. This is tailored +for the use-case of running small tests on a local laptop that +typically has zoom, firefox and chrome all clamoring for their share +of RAM. It is not intended for production workloads. + +{% highlight yaml %} +version: '3' +services: + zookeeper: + image: confluentinc/cp-zookeeper:5.1.0 + expose: + - "2181" + ports: + - "2181:2181" + environment: + KAFKA_OPTS: '-Xms256m -Xmx256m' + ZOOKEEPER_CLIENT_PORT: 2181 + ZOOKEEPER_TICK_TIME: 2000 + + broker: + image: confluentinc/cp-kafka:5.1.0 + depends_on: + - zookeeper + expose: + - "9092" + ports: + - "9092:9092" + - "19092:19092" + environment: + KAFKA_BROKER_ID: 1 + KAFKA_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: 'zookeeper:2181' + KAFKA_LISTENER_SECURITY_PROTOCOL_MAP: PLAINTEXT:PLAINTEXT,PLAINTEXT_HOST:PLAINTEXT + KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS: PLAINTEXT://broker:9092,PLAINTEXT_HOST://localhost:19092 + KAFKA_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME: localhost + KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1 + KAFKA_GROUP_INITIAL_REBALANCE_DELAY_MS: 0 + KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1 + KAFKA_AUTO_CREATE_TOPICS_ENABLE: "false" + KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1 + KAFKA_OFFSETS_TOPIC_NUM_PARTITIONS: 1 + KAFKA_OPTS: '-Xms256m -Xmx256m' + KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1 + KAFKA_TRANSACTION_STATE_LOG_MIN_ISR: 1 + KAFKA_AUTO_OFFSET_RESET: "latest" + KAFKA_ENABLE_AUTO_COMMIT: "false" + + schema-registry: + image: confluentinc/cp-schema-registry:5.1.0 + depends_on: + - zookeeper + - broker + expose: + - "8081" + ports: + - "8081:8081" + environment: + KAFKA_OPTS: '-Xms256m -Xmx256m' + SCHEMA_REGISTRY_HOST_NAME: schema-registry + SCHEMA_REGISTRY_KAFKASTORE_CONNECTION_URL: 'zookeeper:2181' +{% endhighlight %} + +## Test Environment Healthchecks + +It’s always a good idea to make sure the composition of services is +behaving as expected before trying to write tests against +them. Otherwise you might spend hours scratching your head wondering +why your system isn’t working when the problem is actually +mis-configuration of the test environment. + +The most basic health-check you can do is to run `docker-compose ps`. This +will show at least that the services came up without exiting +immediately due to mis-configuration. In the happy case, the state of +all services should be “Up”. This command also shows which ports are +exposed by each service which will be important information when it comes +to configuring the system under test. + +![docker-compose ps]({{ site.baseurl }}/images/docker-compose-ps.png) + +### Accessing the logs + +When something goes wrong there is often a clue in the logs although it +will take a bit of experience with them before you'll know what to look +for. Familiarizing yourself with them will payoff eventually though +both in “dev mode” when you’re trying to figure out why the code you’re +writing doesn’t work, and also in “ops mode” when you’re trying to +figure out what’s gone wrong in a deployed system. Getting access to +them in the test environment described here is the same as any other +docker-compose based system. The snippets below demonstrate a few of +the common use-cases and the full documentation is available +at [docs.docker.com](https://docs.docker.com/compose/reference/logs/) + +{% highlight sh%} + +# get all the logs +$ docker-compose logs + +# get just the broker logs +$ docker-compose logs broker + +# get the schema-registry logs and print more as they appear +$ docker-compose logs -f schema-registry + +{% endhighlight%} + +### Testing Connectivity + +Another diagnostic tool that helps when debugging connectivity +issues is telnet. Experienced engineers will probably know this already +but for example, to ensure that you can reach kafka from your system under +test (assuming the system you're testing runs on the host OS), you can try +to reach the port exposed by the docker-compose configuration. + +{% highlight sh%} + +telnet localhost 19092 + +{% endhighlight %} + +If the problem is more gnarly than basic connectivity issues, then Julia Evans' +[debugging zine](https://jvns.ca/debugging-zine.pdf) contains very useful advice +about debugging *any* problem you have with Linux based systems. + +That's all for now. In the next article, I'll use this test environment +together with the [test-machine](https://github.com/FundingCircle/jackdaw/blob/master/doc/test-machine.md) +library to build a helper function for testing Kafka Connect JDBC Sinks. diff --git a/_posts/2019-11-08-test-machine-test-jdbc-sink.md b/_posts/2019-11-08-test-machine-test-jdbc-sink.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..4c19a835f4d40 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-11-08-test-machine-test-jdbc-sink.md @@ -0,0 +1,416 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: A Test Helper for JDBC Sinks +--- + +The Confluent JDBC Sink allows you to configure Kafka Connect to take +care of moving data reliably from Kafka to a relational database. Most +of the usual suspects (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle etc) are +supported out the box and in theory, you could connect your data to +any database with a JDBC driver. + +This is great because Kafka Connect takes care of + + * Splitting the job between a [configurable number of Tasks](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect_connectorsandtasks) + * Keeping track of tasks' progress using [Kafka Consumer Groups](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#intro_consumers) + * Making the current status of workers available over an [HTTP API](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect_rest) + * Publishing [metrics](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect_monitoring) that facilitate the monitoring of all connectors in + a standard way + +Assuming your infrastructure has an instance of Kafka Connect up and +running, all you need to do as a user of this system is submit a JSON +HTTP request to register a "job" and Kafka Connect will take care of +the rest. + +To make things concrete, imagine we're implementing an event-driven +bank and we have some process (or at scale, a collection of processes) +that keeps track of customer balances by applying a transaction +log. Each time a customer balance is updated for some transaction, a +record is written to the customer-balances topic and we'd like to sink +this topic into a database table so that other systems can quickly +look up the current balance for some customer without having to apply +all the transactions themselves. + +The configuration for such a sink might look something like this... + +{% highlight JSON %} +{ + "name": "customer-balances-sink", + "connector.class": "io.confluent.connect.jdbc.JdbcSinkConnector", + "table.name.format": "customer_balances", + "connection.url": "jdbc:postgresql://DB_HOST:DB_PORT/DB_NAME", + "connection.user": "DB_USER", + "connection.password": "DB_PASSWORD", + "key.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter", + "value.converter": "io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter", + "value.converter.schema.registry.url": "SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL", + "topics": "customer-balances", + "auto.create": "true", + "auto.evolve": "true", + "pk.mode": "record_value", + "pk.fields": "customer_id", + "fields.whitelist": "customer_id,current_balance,updated_at", + "insert.mode": "upsert", +} +{% endhighlight %} + +It may be argued that since this is all just configuration, there is no +need for testing. Or if you try to test this, aren't you just testing +Kafka Connect itself? I probably would have agreed with this sentiment until +the 2nd or 3rd time I had to reset the UAT environment after deploying a +slightly incorrect kafka connect job. + +It is difficult to get these things perfectly correct first time and +an error can be costly to fix even if they happen in a test +environment (especially if the test environment is shared by other +developers and needs to be fixed or reset before trying again). For +this reason, it's really nice to be able to quickly test it out in +your local environment and/or run some automated tests as part of your +continuous integration flow before any code gets merged. + +So how *do* we test such a thing? Here's a list of some of the steps we +could take. We could go further but this seems to catch most of the +errors that I've seen go wrong in practice. + + * Create the "customer-balances" topic from which data will be fed + into the the sink + * Register the "customer-balance-sink" connector with a kafka-connect + instance provided by the test environment (and wait until it gets + into the "RUNNING" state) + * Generate some example records to load into the input topic + * Wait until the last of the generated records appears in the sink + table + * Check that all records written to the input topic made it into the + sink table + +## Top-down, meet Bottom-up + +As an aside, and to provide a bit of background to my thought +processes, many years ago, I came across the web.py project by the +late Aaron Swartz. The philosophy for that framework was + +> Think about the ideal way to write a web app. Write the code to make it happen. +> +> -- Aaron Swartz ([http://webpy.org/philosophy](http://webpy.org/philosophy)) + +This was one of many things he wrote that has stuck with me over the +years and it always comes to mind whenever I'm attempting to solve a new problem. +So when I thought about "the ideal way to write a test for a kafka connect sink", +something like the following came to mind. This is the Top-down part of the +development process. + +{% highlight clojure %} + +(deftest ^:connect test-customer-balances + (test-jdbc-sink {:connector-name "customer-balances-sink" + :config (config/load-config) + :topic "customer-balances" + :spec ::customer-balances + :size 2 + :poll-fn (help/poll-table :customer-balances :customer-id) + :watch-fn (help/found-last? :customer-balances :customer-id)} + (comp + (help/table-counts? {:customer-balances 2}) + (help/table-columns? {:customer-balances + #{:customer-id + :current-balance + :updated-at}})))) + +{% endhighlight %} + +The first parameter to this function is simply a map that provides +information to the test helper about things like + + * How to identify the connector so that it can be found and loaded into the test environment + * Where to write the test data + * How to generate the test data (and how much test data to generate) + * How to find the data in the database after the connect job has loaded it + into the database + * How to decide when the all data has appeared in the sink + +The second parameter is a function that will be invoked with all the +data that has been collected by the test-machine journal during the +test run (specifically the generated seed data, and the data retrieved +from the sink table by periodically polling the database with the +test-specific query defined by the `help/poll-table` helper). + +For this, we use regular functional composition to build a single +assertion function from any number of single purpose assertion +functions like `help/table-counts?` and `help/table-columns?`. Each +assertion helper returns a function that receives the journal, runs +some assertions, and then returns the journal so that it may be +composed with other helpers. If any new testing requirements are +identified they can be easily added independently of the existing +assertion helpers. + +With these basic testing primitives in mind we now need to "write the +code to make it happen". i.e. The Bottom-up part of the development +process. With a bit of luck, they will meet in the middle. + +## Test Environment Additions + +In addition to the base docker-compose config included in the +[previous post](https://grumpyhacker.com/test-machine-test-env/), we +need a couple of extra services. We can either put those in their own +file and combine the two compose files using the `-f` option of +docker-compose, or we can just bundle it all up into a single compose +file. Each option has it's trade-offs. I don't feel too strongly +either way. Use whichever option fits best with your team's workflow. +This will also depend on the particular database you use. We use PostgreSQL +here because it's awesome. + +{% highlight yaml %} +version: '3' +services: + connect: + image: confluentinc/cp-kafka-connect:5.1.0 + expose: + - "8083" + ports: + - "8083:8083" + environment: + KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS: "-Xms256m -Xmx512m" + CONNECT_REST_ADVERTISED_HOST_NAME: connect + CONNECT_GROUP_ID: jdbc-sink-test + CONNECT_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS: broker:9092 + CONNECT_CONFIG_STORAGE_TOPIC: docker-connect-configs + CONNECT_CONFIG_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1 + CONNECT_OFFSET_FLUSH_INTERVAL_MS: 10000 + CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_TOPIC: docker-connect-offsets + CONNECT_OFFSET_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1 + CONNECT_STATUS_STORAGE_TOPIC: docker-connect-status + CONNECT_STATUS_STORAGE_REPLICATION_FACTOR: 1 + CONNECT_KEY_CONVERTER: org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter + CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER: io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter + CONNECT_VALUE_CONVERTER_SCHEMA_REGISTRY_URL: http://schema-registry:8081 + CONNECT_INTERNAL_KEY_CONVERTER: "org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter" + CONNECT_INTERNAL_VALUE_CONVERTER: "org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter" + CONNECT_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT: 'zookeeper:2181' + CONNECT_PLUGIN_PATH: '/usr/share/java' + + pg: + image: postgres:9.5 + ports: + - "5432:5432" + environment: + - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=yolo + - POSTGRES_DB=jdbc_sink_test + - POSTGRES_USER=postgres +{% endhighlight %} + +## Implementing the Test Helpers + +The test helpers are a collection of higher-order functions that +allow the `test-jdbc-sink` function to pass control back to the test +author in order to run test-specific tasks. Let's look at those +before delving into `test-jdbc-sink` itself which is a bit more +involved. The helpers are all fairly straight-forward so hopefully +the docstrings will be enough to understand what's going on. + +{% highlight clojure %} + +(defn poll-table + "Returns a function that will be periodically executed by the `test-connector` + to fetch data from the sink table. The returned function is invoked with the + generated seed-data as a parameter so that it can ignore any data added by + different test runs." + [table-name key-name] + (fn [seed-data db] + (let [result (let [query (format "select * + from %s + where %s in (%s)" + (if (keyword? table-name) + (underscore table-name) + (format "\"%s\"" table-name)) + (if (keyword? key-name) + (underscore key-name) + (format "\"%s\"" key-name)) + (->> seed-data + (map key-name) + (map #(format "'%s'" %)) + (string/join ",")))] + (try + (jdbc/query db query {:identifiers hyphenate}) + (catch Exception e + (log/error "failed: " query))))] + (log/info (format "%s rows: %s" table-name (count result))) + result))) + +(defn found-last? + "Builds a watch function that is invoked whenever the test-machine journal + is updated (the journal is updated whenever the poll function successfully finds + data). When the watch function returns `true`, that denotes the completion of + the test and the current state of the journal is passed to the test assertion + function" + [table-name key-name] + (fn [seed-data journal] + (let [last-id (:id (last seed-data))] + (->> (get-in journal [:tables table-name]) + (filter #(= last-id (:id %))) + first + not-empty)))) + +(defn table-counts? + "Builds an assertion function that checks whether the journal contains + the expected number of records in the specified table. `m` is a map + of table-ids to expected counts. The returned function returns the + journal so that it can be composed with other assertion functions" + [m] + (fn [journal] + (doseq [[k exp-count] m] + (testing (format "count %s" k) + (is (= exp-count (-> (get-in journal [:tables k]) + count))))) + journal)) + +(defn table-columns? + "Builds an assertion function that checks whether the sink tables logged in + test-machine journal contain the expected columns" + [m] + (fn [journal] + (doseq [[k field-set] m] + (testing (format "table %s has columns %s" + k field-set) + (is (= field-set + (->> (get-in journal [:tables k]) + last + keys + set))))) + journal)) + +(defn- load-seed-data + "This is where we actually use the test-machine. We use the seed-data to generate + a list of :write! commands, and just tack on a :watch command at the end that uses + the `watch-fn` provided by the test-author. When the watch function is satisfied, + this will return the test-machine journal that has been collecting data produced + by the poller which we can then use as part of our test assertions" + [machine topic-id seed-data + {:keys [key-fn watch-fn] + :or {key-fn :id}}] + (jdt/run-test machine (concat + (->> seed-data + (map (fn [record] + [:write! topic-id record {:key-fn key-fn}]))) + [[:watch watch-fn {:timeout 5000}]]))) + +{% endhighlight %} + +Finally, here is the annotated code for `test-jdbc-sink`. This has not yet +been properly extracted from the project which uses these tests so it +contains a bit of accidental complexity but hopefully I'll be able to get +some version of this into [jackdaw](https://github.com/FundingCircle/jackdaw) +soon. In the meantime I'm hoping it serves as a nice bit of +documentation for using the test-machine outside of contrived +examples. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn test-jdbc-sink + {:style/indent 1} + [{:keys [connector-name config topic spec size watch-fn poll-fn key-fn]} test-fn] + + ;; `config` is a global config map loaded from an EDN file. We fetch the + ;; configured schema-registry url and create a schema-registry-client and assign + ;; them to dynamic variables which are used when "resolving" the avro serdes that + ;; are to be associated with the input topic + (binding [t/*schema-registry-url* (get-in config [:schema-registry :url]) + t/*schema-registry-client* (reg/client (get-in config [:schema-registry :url]) 100)] + + ;; You may have noticed in the JSON configuration above that there were placeholders for + ;; database paramters (e.g. DB_USER, DB_NAME etc). These are expanded using a "mustache" + ;; template language renderer. That's all `load-connector` is doing here + (let [connector (load-connector config connector-name) + + ;; `spec` represents a clojure.spec "entity map" + seed-data (gen/sample (s/gen spec) size) + + ;; `topic-config` takes the topic specified as a string, and finds the corresponding + ;; topic-metadata in the project configuration. topic-metadata is where we specify things + ;; like how to create a topic, how to serialize a record, how to generate a key from + ;; a record value + topics (topic-config topic) + + ;; `topic-id` is just a symbolic id representing the topic + topic-id (-> topics + keys + first) + + ;; here we fetch the name of the sink table from the connector config + sink-table (-> (get connector "table.name.format") + hyphenate + keyword) + + ;; the kafka-config tells us where the kafka bootstrap.servers are. This is required + ;; to connect to kafka in order to create the test topic and write our example test + ;; data + kconfig (kafka-config config)] + + ;; This is just the standard way to acquire a jdbc connection in Clojure. We're getting + ;; the connection parameters from the same global project config we got the schema-registry + ;; parameters from + (jdbc/with-db-connection [db {:dbtype "postgresql" + :dbname (get-in config [:jdbc-sink-db :name]) + :host "localhost" + :port (get-in config [:jdbc-sink-db :port]) + :user (get-in config [:jdbc-sink-db :username]) + :password (get-in config [:jdbc-sink-db :password])}] + + ;; `with-fixtures` is one of the few macros used. It takes a vector of fixtures each of + ;; which is a function that performs some setup before invoking a test function. The + ;; test function ends up being defined by the body of the macro. The fixtures here + ;; create the test topic, wait for kafka-connect to be up and running (important when + ;; the tests are running in CircleCI immediately after starting kafka-connect), then + ;; load the connector, + (fix/with-fixtures [(fix/topic-fixture kconfig topics) + (fix/service-ready? {:http-url "http://localhost:8083"}) + (tfx/connector-fixture {:base-url "http://localhost:8083" + :connector {"config" connector}})] + + ;; Finally we acquire a test-machine using the kafka-config and the topic-metadata we + ;; derived earlier. This will be used to write the test data and record the results + ;; of polling the target table + (jdt/with-test-machine (jdt/kafka-transport kconfig topics) + (fn [machine] + + ;; Before writing any test-data, we setup the db-poller. This uses Zach Tellman's + ;; manifold to periodically invoke the supplied function on a fixed pool of threads. + ;; The `poll-fn` is actually provided as a parameter to `test-connector` so at this + ;; point we're passing control back to the caller. They need to provide a polling + ;; function that takes the seed-data we generated, and the db handle, and execute + ;; a query that will find the records that correspond with the seed data. We take + ;; the result, and put it in the test-machine journal which will make it available + ;; to both the `watch-fn` and the test assertions. + (let [db-poller (mt/every 1000 + (fn [] + (let [poll-result (poll-fn seed-data db)] + (send (:journal machine) + (fn [journal poll-data] + (assoc-in journal [:tables sink-table] poll-data)) + poll-result))))] + (try + ;; All that's left now is to write the example data to the input topic and + ;; wait for it to appear in the sink table. That's what `load-seed-data` does. + ;; Note how again we're handing control back to the test author by using their + ;; `watch-fn` (again passing in the seed data we generated for them so they can + ;; figure out what to watch for). + (log/info "load seed data" (map :id seed-data)) + (load-seed-data machine topic-id seed-data + {:key-fn key-fn + :watch-fn (partial watch-fn seed-data)}) + + ;; Now the test-machine journal contains all the data we need to verify that the + ;; the connector is working as expected. So we just pass the current state of the + ;; journal to the `test-fn` which is expected to run some test assertions against + ;; the data + (test-fn @(:journal machine)) + (finally + ;; Manifold's `manifold.time/every` returns a function that can be invoked in + ;; the finally clause to cancel the polling operation when the test is finished + ;; regardless of what happens during the test + (db-poller))))))))))) +{% endhighlight %} + +And that's it for now! Thanks for reading. Look forward to hearing +your thoughts and questions about this on Twitter. I tried to keep it +as short as possible so let me know if there's anything I glossed over +which you'd like to see explained in more detail in subsequent posts. + diff --git a/_posts/2019-11-13-generating-test-data.md b/_posts/2019-11-13-generating-test-data.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..2091fb05949e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-11-13-generating-test-data.md @@ -0,0 +1,205 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Generating Test Data +--- + +In [A Test Helper for JDBC Sinks](/test-machine-test-jdbc-sink/) one +part of the testing process that I glossed over a bit was the line +"Generate some example records to load into the input topic". I said +this like it was no big deal but actually there are a few moving parts +that all need to come together for this to work and it's something I +struggled to get to grips with at the beginning of our journey and +have seen other experienced engineers struggle with too. Part of the +problem I think is that a lot of the Kafka eco-system is made up of +folks using statically typed languages like Scala, Kotlin etc. It does +all work with dynamically typed languages like Clojure but there are +just fewer of us around which makes it all the more important to share +what we learn. So here's a quick guide to generating +test-data and getting it into Kafka using the test-machine from Jackdaw + +## Basic Data Generator + +You may recall the fields enumerated in the whitelist from the example +sink config. They were as follows:- + + * customer-id + * current-balance + * updated-at + +So a nice easy first step is to write a function to generate a map +with these fields + +{% highlight clojure %} +(ns io.grumpybank.generators + (:require + [java-time :as t])) + +(defn gen-customer-balance + [] + {:customer-id (str (java.util.UUID/randomUUID)) + :current-balance (rand-int 1000) + :updated-at (t/to-millis-from-epoch (t/instant))}) +{% endhighlight %} + +## Schema Definition + +However this is not enough on it's own. The target database has a schema +which is only implicit in the function above. The JDBC sink connector +will create and evolve the schema for us if we allow it, but in +order to do that, we need to write the data using the Avro serialization +format. Here is Jay Kreps from Confluent [making the case for Avro](https://www.confluent.io/blog/avro-kafka-data/) +and much of the confluent tooling leverages various aspects of this particular +serialization format so it's a good default choice unless you have a good +reason to choose otherwise. + +So let's assume the app that produces the customer-balances topic has +already defined a Avro schema. The thing we're trying to test is a +consumer of that topic but as a tester, we have to wear the producer +hat for for a while so we take a copy of the schema from the upstream +app and make it available to our connector test. + +{% highlight JSON %} +{ + "type": "record", + "name": "CustomerBalance", + "namespace": "io.grumpybank.tables.CustomerBalance", + "fields": [ + { + "name": "customer_id", + "type": "string" + }, + { + "name": "updated_at", + "type": { + "type": "long", + "logicalType": "timestamp-millis" + } + }, + { + "name": "current_balance", + "type": ["null", "long"], + "default": null + } + ] +} +{% endhighlight %} + +We can use the schema above to create an Avro +[Serde](https://www.apache.org/dist/kafka/2.3.0/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/common/serialization/Serde.html). +Serde is just the name given to the composition of the Serialization +and Deserialization operations. Since one is the opposite of the other +it has become a strong convention that that they are defined together +and the Serde interface captures that convention. + +The Serde will be used by the KafkaProducer to serialize the message +value into a ByteArray before sending it off to the broker to be +appended to the specified topic and replicated as per the topic +settings. Here's a helper function for creating the Serde for a schema +represented as JSON in a file using jackdaw. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(ns io.grumpybank.avro-helpers + (:require + [jackdaw.serdes.avro :as avro] + [jackdaw.serdes.avro.schema-registry :as reg])) + +(def schema-registry-url "http://localhost:8081") +(def schema-registry-client (reg/client schema-registry-url 32)) + +(defn value-serde + [filename] + (avro/serde {:avro.schema-registry/client schema-registry-client + :avro.schema-registry/url schema-registry-url} + {:avro/schema (slurp filename) + :key? false})) +{% endhighlight %} + +The Avro Serdes in jackdaw ultimately use the KafkaAvroSerializer/KafkaAvroDeserializer +which share schemas via the Confluent Schema Registry and optionally +checks for various levels of compatability. The Schema Registry is yet +another topic worthy of it's own blog-post but fortunately Gwen +Shapira has already [written +it](https://www.confluent.io/blog/schema-registry-kafka-stream-processing-yes-virginia-you-really-need-one/). +The Jackdaw avro serdes convert clojure data structures like the one +output by `gen-customer-balance` into an [Avro +GenericRecord](https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.2/api/java/org/apache/avro/generic/GenericRecord.html) +I'll get into more gory detail about this some other time but for now, +let's move quickly along and discuss the concept of "Topic Metadata". + +## Topic Metadata + +In Jackdaw, the convention adopted for associating Serdes with +topics is known as "Topic Metadata". This is just a Clojure map so you +can put all kinds of information in there if it helps fulfill some +requirement. Here are a few bits of metadata that jackdaw will act upon + +### When creating a topic + * `:topic-name` + * `:replication-factor` + * `:partition-count` + +### When serializing a message + * `:key-serde` + * `:value-serde` + * `:key-fn` + * `:partition-fn` + +{% highlight clojure %} +(ns io.grumpybank.connectors.test-helpers + (:require + [jackdaw.serdes :as serde] + [io.grumpybank.avro-helpers :as avro])) + +(defn topic-config + [topic-name] + {:topic-name topic-name + :replication-factor 1 + :key-serde (serde/string-serde) + :value-serde (avro/value-serde (str "./test/resources/schemas/" + topic-name + ".json"))}) + +{% endhighlight %} + +## Revisit the helper + +Armed with all this new information, we can revisit the helper defined +in the previous post and understand a bit more clearly what's going on +and how it all ties together. For illustrative purposes, we've +explicitly defined a few variables that were a bit obscured in the +original example. + +{% highlight clojure %} + +(def kconfig {"bootstrap.servers" "localhost:9092"}) +(def topics {:customer-balances (topic-config "customer-balances")}) +(def seed-data (repeatedly 5 gen-customer-balance)) +(def topic-id :customer-balances) +(def key-fn :id) + +(fix/with-fixtures [(fix/topic-fixture kconfig topics)] + (jdt/with-test-machine (jdt/kafka-transport kconfig topics) + (fn [machine] + (jdt/run-test machine (concat + (->> seed-data + (map (fn [record] + [:write! topic-id record {:key-fn key-fn}]))) + [[:watch watch-fn {:timeout 5000}]]))))) +{% endhighlight %} + +The vars `kconfig` and `topics` are used by both the `topic-fixture` (to create the +required topic before starting to write test-data to it), and the `kafka-transport` +which teaches the test-machine how read and write data from the listed topics. In +fact the test-machine will start reading data from all listed topics straight +away even before it is instructed to write anything. + +Finally we write the test-data to kafka by supplying a list of commands to the +`run-test` function. The `:write!` command takes a topic-identifier (one of the +keys in the topics map), the message value, and a map of options in this case +specifying that the message key can be derived from the message by invoking +`(:id record)`. We could also specify things like the `:partition-fn`, +`:timestamp` etc. When the command is executed by the test-machine, it looks up +the topic-metadata for the specified identifier and uses it to build a ProducerRecord +and send it off to the broker. + +Next up will be a deep-dive into the test-machine journal and the watch command. diff --git a/_posts/2019-11-16-kafka-connect-status-report.md b/_posts/2019-11-16-kafka-connect-status-report.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..27887412ef1f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-11-16-kafka-connect-status-report.md @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Reporting on Kafka Connect Jobs +--- + +At the risk of diluting the brand message (i.e. testing kafka stuff +using Clojure), in this post, I'm going to introduce some code for +extracting a report on the status of Kafka Connect jobs. I'd argue +it's still "on-message", falling as it does under the +observability/metrics umbrella and since observability is an integral +part of [testing in +production](https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/testing-in-production-the-safe-way-18ca102d0ef1) +then I think we're on safe ground. + +I know I promised a deep-dive on the test-machine journal but it's +been a crazy week and I needed to self-sooth by writing about +something simpler that was mostly ready to go. + +## Kafka Connect API + +The distributed version of Kafka Connect provides an HTTP API for +managing jobs and providing access to their configuration and current +status, including any errors that have caused the job to stop +working. It also provides metrics over JMX but that requires + + 1. Server configuration that is not enabled by default + 2. Access to a port which is often only exposed inside the production + stack and is intended to support being queried by a "proper" + monitoring system + +This is not to say that you shouldn't go ahead and setup proper +monitoring. You definitely should. But you needn't let the absence of +it prevent you from quickly getting an idea of overall health of your +Kafka Connect system. + +For this script we'll be hitting two of the endpoints provided by +Kafka Connect + +## GET /connectors + +Here's the function that hits the `/connectors` endpoint. It uses Zach +Tellman's [aleph](https://github.com/ztellman/aleph) and +[manifold](https://github.com/ztellman/manifold) libraries. The +`http/get` function returns a deferred that allows the API call to be +handled asynchronously by setting up a "chain" of operations to deal +with the response when it arrives. + +{% highlight clojure %} + +(ns grumpybank.observability.kc + (:require + [aleph.http :as http] + [manifold.deferred :as d] + [clojure.data.json :as json] + [byte-streams :as bs])) + +(defn connectors + [connect-url] + (d/chain (http/get (format "%s/connectors" connect-url)) + #(update % :body bs/to-string) + #(update % :body json/read-str) + #(:body %))) + +{% endhighlight %} + +## GET /connectors/:connector-id/status + +Here's the function that hits the `/connectors/:connector-id/status` +endpoint. Again, we invoke the API endpoint and setup a chain to deal +with the response by first converting the raw bytes to a string, and +then reading the JSON string into a Clojure map. Just the same as +before. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn connector-status + [connect-url connector] + (d/chain (http/get (format "%s/connectors/%s/status" + connect-url + connector)) + #(update % :body bs/to-string) + #(update % :body json/read-str) + #(:body %))) +{% endhighlight %} + +## Generating a report + +Depending on how big your Kafka Connect installation becomes and how +you deploy connectors you might easily end up with 100s of connectors +returned by the request above. Submitting a request to the status +endpoint for each one in serial would take quite a while. On the +other-hand, the server on the other side is capable of handling many +requests in parallel. This is especially true if there are a few Kafka +Connect nodes co-operating behind a load-balancer. + +This is why it is advantageous to use aleph here for the HTTP requests +instead of the more commonly used clj-http. Once we have our list of +connectors, we can fire off simultaneous requests for the status of +each connector, and collect the results asynchronously. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn connector-report + [connect-url] + (let [task-failed? #(= "FAILED" (get % "state")) + task-running? #(= "RUNNING" (get % "state")) + task-paused? #(= "PAUSED" (get % "state"))] + (d/chain (connectors connect-url) + #(apply d/zip (map (partial connector-status connect-url) %)) + #(map (fn [s] + {:connector (get s "name") + :failed? (failed? s) + :total-tasks (count (get s "tasks")) + :failed-tasks (->> (get s "tasks") + (filter task-failed?) + count) + :running-tasks (->> (get s "tasks") + (filter task-running?) + count) + :paused-tasks (->> (get s "tasks") + (filter task-paused?) + count) + :trace (when (failed? s) + (traces s))}) %)))) +{% endhighlight %} + +Here we first define a few helper predicates (`task-failed?`, +`task-running?`, and `task-paused?`) for classifying the status +eventually returned by `connector-status`. Then we kick off the +asynchronous pipeline by requesting a list of connectors using +`connectors`. + +The first operation on the chain is to apply the result to `d/zip` +which as described above will invoke the status API calls concurrently +and return a vector with all the responses once they are all complete. + +Then we simply map the results over an anonymous function which builds +a map out of with the connector id together with whether it has +failed, how many of its tasks are in each state, and when the connector +*has* failed, the stacktrace provided by the status endpoint. + +If you have a huge number of connect jobs you might need to split the +initial list into smaller batches and submit each batch in +parallel. This can easily be done using Clojure's built-in `partition` +function but I didn't find this to be necessary on our fairly large +collection of kafka connect jobs. + +Wrap these functions up in a simple command line script and run it +after making any changes to your kafka-connect configuration to make +sure everything is still hunky-dory. + +Here's a [gist](https://gist.github.com/cddr/da5215ed83653872bee3febdbb435e65) +that wraps these functions up into a quick and dirty script that reports the +results to STDOUT. Feel free to re-use, refactor, and integrate with +your own script to make sure after making changes to your deployed Kafka +Connect configuration, everything remains hunky-dory. + + diff --git a/_posts/2019-12-05-generating-generators.md b/_posts/2019-12-05-generating-generators.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..db3a96462c870 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2019-12-05-generating-generators.md @@ -0,0 +1,630 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: Generating Generators +--- + +This is a written version of a talk I presented at [re:Clojure +2019](https://reclojure.org/). It's not online yet but as soon as it +is, I'll include a link to the talk itself on YouTube. + + +## Intro + +The late phase pharma company has an interesting technical +challenge. This is long past the stage of developing the drug. By this +time, they’ve figured out that it is basically safe for humans to +consume, and they’re executing on the last (and most expensive) part +of the study. Testing it’s “efficacy”. That is whether it actually +works. And sharing the supporting evidence in a way that the +authorities can easily review and verify. And they just have this +backlog of potential drugs that need to go through this process. + +Bear in mind, I was the most junior of junior developers but from my +perspective, what it seemed to boil down to (from an IT perspective) +is that they have a succession of distinct information models to +define, collect, analyze, and report on as quickly as possible. + +As a consequence, they got together as an industry to define the +metadata common to these information-models, so that they could +standardize data transfer between partners. This was their “domain +specific information schema”. CDISC. And it was great! + +I worked for this really cool company called +[Formedix](https://www.formedix.com/) who understood better than most +in the industry, the value of metadata (as opposed to data). And we’d +help our clients use their metadata to + + * Curate libraries of Study elements that could be re-used between + studies + * Generate study definitions for a variety of “EDCs” who now had + to compete with one another to win our clients' business + * Drive data transformation processes (e.g. OLTP -> OLAP) + +So my objective with this article is to introduce the metadata present +in SQL’s information schema, and show how it can be used to solve the +problem of testing a data integration pipeline. Hopefully this will +leave you wondering about how you might be able to use it to solve +your own organization’s problems. + +## The information schema + +The information schema is a collection of entities in a SQL database +that contain information about the database itself. The tables, +columns, foreign keys, even triggers. Below is an ER diagram that +represents the information schema. Originally created by +[Roland Bouman](http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/2006/03/mysql-51-information-schema-now.html) +and now hosted by [Jorge Oyhenard](https://www.jorgeoyhenard.com/modelo-er-del-information-schema-de-mysql-51). + +![The Information Schema](https://i1.wp.com/www.artecreativo.net/oy/uploads/2009/04/mysql_5_1_information_schema.gif) + +It is part of the SQL Standard (SQL-92 I believe), which means you can +find these tables in all the usual suspects. Oracle, MySQL, +PostgreSQL. But even in more “exotic” databases like Presto and +MemSQL. The example I’ll be demonstrating later on uses MySQL because +that was the system we were working with at the time but you should be +able to use these techniques on any database purporting to support the +SQL Standard. + +The other point to note is that it presents itself as regular tables +that you can query using SQL. This means you can filter them, join +them, group them, aggregate them just like you’re used to with your +“business” tables. + +There is a wealth of information available in the information schema +but in order to generate a model capable of generating test-data to +excercise a data pipeline, we're going to focus on two of the tables +in particular. The `columns` table, and the `key_column_usage` table. + +### Column/Type Information + +As you might expect, in the `columns` table, each row represents a table +column and contains + + * The column name + * The table/schema the column belongs to + * The column datatype + * Whether it is nullable + * Depending on the datatype, additional detail about the type (like the numeric or date precision, character length + +### Relationship Information + +The other table we're interested in is `key_column_usage` table. Provided +that the tables have been created with foreign key constraints, the +`key_column_usage` table tells us the relationships between the tables in +the database. Each row in this table represents a foreign key and contains + + * The column name + * The table/schema the column belongs to + * The “referenced” table/schema the column points to + +As an aside, it's worth pointing out that this idea of +“information-schemas” is not unique to SQL. Similar abstractions have +sprung up on other platforms. For example, if you're within the +confluent sphere of influence, you probably use their schema registry +(IBM have one too). If you use GraphQL, you use information-schemas to +represent the possible queries and their results And OpenAPI (formerly +known as Swagger) provides an information-schema of sorts for your +REST API + +Depending on the platform, there can be more or less work involved in +keeping these information-schemas up-to-date but assuming they are an +accurate representation of the system, they can act as the data input +to the kind of “generator generators” I’ll be describing next. + + +## Programming with Metadata + +Lets say we’re building a twitter. You want to test how “likes” +work. But in order to insert a “like”, you need a “tweet”, and a +“user” to attribute the like to. And in order to add the tweet, you +need another user who authored it. This is a relatively simple +use-case. Imagine having to simulate a late repayment on a multi-party +loan after the last one was reversed. It seems like it would be +helpful to be able to start from a graph with random (but valid) +data, and then overwrite only the bits we care about for the use-case +we’re trying to test. + +The column and relational metadata described above is enough to build +a model we can use to generate arbitrarily complex object graphs. What +we need is a build step that queries the info schema to fetch the +metadata we’re interested in, applies a few transformations, and +outputs + + * clojure.spec + * specmonstah + +## Spec Generator + +Here’s how such a tool might work. Somewhere in the codebase there’s a +main method that queries the information-schema, feeds the data to the +generator, and writes the specs to STDOUT. Here it is wrapped in a +lein alias because we’re old skool. + +{% highlight sh %} +$ lein from-info-schema gen-specs > src/ce_data_aggregator_tool/streams/specs/celm.clj +{% endhighlight %} + +...and in the resulting file, there are spec definitions like these + +{% highlight clojure %} +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.columns.addresses/addressable-id :ce-data-aggregator-tool.streams.info-schema/banded-id) +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.columns.addresses/addressable-type #{"person" "company_loan_data"}) +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.columns.addresses/city (clojure.spec.alpha/nilable (info-specs/string-up-to 255))) +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.columns.addresses/company (clojure.spec.alpha/nilable (info-specs/string-up-to 255))) +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.columns.addresses/country-id :ce-data-aggregator-tool.streams.info-schema/int) +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.columns.addresses/created-at :ce-data-aggregator-tool.streams.info-schema/datetime) +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.columns.addresses/debezium-manual-update + (clojure.spec.alpha/nilable :ce-data-aggregator-tool.streams.info-schema/datetime)) +{% endhighlight %} + +As you can see there are a variety of datatypes (e.g. strings, dates, +integers), some some domain specific specs like "banded-id", +enumerations, and when the information schema has instructed us to, we +mark fields as optional. + +There are also keyset definitions definitions like these + +{% highlight clojure %} +(clojure.spec.alpha/def :celm.tables/addresses + (clojure.spec.alpha/keys + :req-un + [:celm.columns.addresses/addressable-id + :celm.columns.addresses/addressable-type + :celm.columns.addresses/city + :celm.columns.addresses/company + :celm.columns.addresses/country-id + :celm.columns.addresses/created-at + :celm.columns.addresses/debezium-manual-update + :celm.columns.addresses/id + :celm.columns.addresses/name + :celm.columns.addresses/phone-number + :celm.columns.addresses/postal-code + :celm.columns.addresses/province + :celm.columns.addresses/resident-since + :celm.columns.addresses/street1 + :celm.columns.addresses/street2 + :celm.columns.addresses/street3 + :celm.columns.addresses/street-number + :celm.columns.addresses/updated-at])) +{% endhighlight %} + +This is a bit more straightforward. Just an enumeration of all the columns in each +table. + +We check the generated files into the repo and have a test-helper that +loads them before running any tests. This means you can also have the +specs at your fingertips from the REPL and easily inspect any +generated objects using your editor. Whenever the schema is updated, +we can re-generate the specs and we’ll get a nice diff reflecting the +schema change. + +## Column Query + +All the specs you see above were generated from the database itself. Most folks +manage the database schema using some sort of schema migration tool so it seems +a bit wasteful to also painstakingly update test data generators every time you +make a schema change. I've worked on projects where this is done and it is not +fun at all. Here's the query to fetch the column metadata from database + +{% highlight clojure %} +(def +column-query+ + "Query to extract column meta-data from the mysql info schema" + "select c.table_name + , c.column_name + , case when c.is_nullable = 'YES' then true else false end as is_nullable + , c.data_type + , c.character_maximum_length + , c.numeric_precision + , c.numeric_scale + , c.column_key + from information_schema.columns c + where c.table_schema = ? and c.table_name in () + order by 1, 2") +{% endhighlight %} + +The data from this query is mapped into clojure.spec as follows + +### Integer Types -> Clojure Specs + +The integer types are all pretty straightforward. I got these max/min +limits from the [MySQL Documentation](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/integer-types.html) +and just used Clojure.spec's builtin “int-in” spec, making a named “s/def” for each corresponding +integer type in mysql + +{% highlight clojure %} +(s/def ::tinyint (s/int-in -128 127)) +(s/def ::smallint (s/int-in -32768 32767)) +(s/def ::mediumint (s/int-in -8388608 8388607)) +(s/def ::int (s/int-in 1 2147483647)) +{% endhighlight %} + +### Date Types -> Clojure Specs + +For dates, we want to generate a java.sql.Date instance. This plays +nicely with clojure.jdbc. They can be used as a parameter in calls to +`insert` or `insert-multi`. Here we’re generating a random integer between +0 and 30 and subtracting that from the current date so that we get a +reasonably recent date. + +For similar reasons, we want to generate a java.sql.Timestamp for +datetimes. For these, we generate an int between 0 and 10k and +substract from the currentMillisSinceEpoch to get a reasonably recent +timestamp. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(s/def ::date (s/with-gen #(instance? java.sql.Date %) + #(gen/fmap (fn [x] + (Date/valueOf (time/minus (time/local-date) (time/days x)))) + (s/gen (s/int-in 0 30))))) +(s/def ::datetime (s/with-gen #(instance? java.sql.Timestamp %) + #(gen/fmap (fn [x] + (Timestamp. (-> (time/minus (time/instant) (time/seconds x)) + .toEpochMilli))) + (s/gen (s/int-in 0 10000))))) +{% endhighlight %} + + +### Decimal Types -> Clojure Specs + +Decimals are bit more involved. In SQL you get to specify the +precision and scale of a decimal number. The precision is the number +of significant digits, and the scale is the number of digits after the +decimal point. + +For example, the number 99 has precision=2 and scale=0. Whereas the number +420.50 has precision=5 and scale=2. + +Ultimately though, for each possible precision, there exists a range +of doubles that can be expressed using a simple “s/double-in :min +:max”. The mapping for decimals just figures out the max/min values +and generates the corresponding spec. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn precision-numeric [max min] + (s/with-gen number? + #(s/gen (s/double-in :max max :min min)))) + +(cond + ;; ... + (= data_type "decimal") + (let [int-part (- numeric_precision numeric_scale) + fraction-part numeric_scale + max (read-string (format "%s.%s" + (string/join "" (repeat int-part "9")) + (string/join "" (repeat fraction-part "9")))) + min (read-string (format "-%s.%s" + (string/join "" (repeat int-part "9")) + (string/join "" (repeat fraction-part "9"))))] + `(precision-numeric ~max ~min)) + ;;.... + ) +{% endhighlight %} + +### String Types -> Clojure Specs + +Strings are pretty simple. We define the “string-up-to” helper to +define a generator that will generate random strings with variable +lengths up-to a maximum of the specified size. The max size comes from +the “character_maximum_length” field of the columns table in the +information-schema. + +For longtext, rather than allowing 2 to the power of 32 really long +strings, we use a max of 500. Otherwise the generated values would be +unreasonably large for regular use. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn string-up-to [max-len] + (s/with-gen string? + #(gen/fmap (fn [x] (apply str x)) + (gen/bind (s/gen (s/int-in 0 max-len)) + (fn [size] + (gen/vector (gen/char-alpha) size)))))) + +(cond + ... + (contains? #{"char" "varchar"} data_type) + `(info-specs/string-up-to ~character_maximum_length) + ...) +{% endhighlight %} + +### Custom Types -> Clojure Specs + +Custom types are our “get-out” clause for the cases where we need a +generator that doesn’t fit in with the rules above. For example +strings that are really enumerations, integers that have additional +constraints not captured in the database schema. The "banded-id" +referenced above is an example of this. + +That’s it! With these mappings, we can generate specs for each +database column of interest, and keysets for each table of +interest. Assuming a database exists with “likes”, “tweets”, and +“users” tables, after generating and loading the specs, we could +generate a “like” value and inspect it at the REPL. + +Some databases I’ve worked on don’t define relational constraints at +the database level so if you’re working on one of these databases, you +could take the generated data and just insert it straight in there +without worrying about creating the corresponding related records. + +But if your database does enforce relational integrity, you need to +create a graph of objects (the users, the tweet, and the like), and +ensure that the users are inserted first, then the tweet, and finally +the like. For this, you need Specmonstah. + +## Specmonstah + +Specmonstah builds on spec by allowing us to define relationships and +constraints between entity key sets. This means that if you have a +test that requires the insertion of records for a bunch of related +entities, you can use monstah-spec to generate the object graph and do +all the database IO in the correct order. + +## Foreign Key Query + +Here’s the query to extract all that juicy relationship data from the +information-schema. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(def +foreign-key-query+ + "Query to extract foreign key meta-data from the mysql info schema" + "select kcu.table_name + , kcu.column_name + , kcu.referenced_table_name + , referenced_column_name + from information_schema.key_column_usage kcu + where kcu.referenced_table_name is not null + and kcu.table_schema = ? and kcu.table_name in () + order by 1, 2") + {% endhighlight %} + +And here’s how we need to represent that data so that specmonstah will +generate object graphs for us. There are fewer concepts to take care +of here. + +{% highlight clojure %} + :addresses + {:prefix :addresses, + :spec :celm.tables/addresses, + :relations {:country-id [:countries :id]}, + :constraints {:country-id #{:uniq}}}, +{% endhighlight %} + +The `:prefix` names the entity in the context of the graph of objects +generated by specmonstah. The `:spec` is the clojure.spec generator +used to generate values for this entity. This refers to one of the +clojure.spec entity keysets generated from the column metadata. In +the `:relations` field each key represents a field which is a link to +another table. The key is the field name. The value is a pair where +the first item is the foreign table, and the second item is the +primary key of that table. The `:constraints` field determines how +values are constrained within the graph of generated data. + +Specmonstah provides utilities for traversing the graph of objects so +that you can enumerate them in dependency order. We can use these +utilities to define `gen-for-query` which takes a specmonstah schema, +and a graph query (which seems kinda like a graphql query), and +returns the raw data for the test object graph, in order, ready to be +inserted into a database. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn gen-for-query + ([schema query xform] + (let [types-by-ent (fn [ents-by-type] + (->> (reduce into [] + (for [[t ents] ents-by-type] + (for [e ents] + [e t]))) + (into {})))] + + (let [db (sg/ent-db-spec-gen {:schema schema} query) + order (or (seq (reverse (sm/topsort-ents db))) + (sm/sort-by-required db (sm/ents db))) + attr-map (sm/attr-map db :spec-gen) + ents-by-type (sm/ents-by-type db) + ent->type (types-by-ent ents-by-type)] + (->> order + (map (fn [k] + [(ent->type k) (k attr-map)])) + (map xform))))) + + ([schema query] + (gen-for-query schema query (fn [[ent v]] + [:insert ent v])))) +{% endhighlight %} + + +In the intro, I promised I would show how the information schema was +leveraged to test a “change data capture” pipeline at Funding +Circle. The function above is a key enabler of this. The rest of this +post attempts to explain the background to the following tweet. + +![TDD your CDC](/images/generating-generators/tdd-yo-cdc.png) + +## Mergers and Acquisition + +Here’s a diagram representing a problem we're trying to solve. We have +three identically structured databases (one for each country in which +we operate in Europe). And an integrator whose job it was to merge +each table from the source databases into a unified stream, and apply +a few transformations before passing it along to the view builders +which join up related tables for entry into salesforce. + +![CE Aggregator Diagram](/images/generating-generators/ce-aggregator-diagram.png) + +The integrator was implemented using debezium to stream the database +changes into kafka, and kafka streams to apply the transformations. + +We called the bit before the view builders “the wrangler” and the test +from the previous slide performed a “full-stack” test of one of the +wranglers (i.e. load the data into mysql and check that it comes out +the other side as expected in kafka after being copied into kafka by +debezium and transformed by our own kafka streams application). + +### The Test Machine + +In order to explain how this test-helper works, we need to introduce +one final bit of tech. The +[test-machine](https://cljdoc.org/d/fundingcircle/jackdaw/0.6.9/doc/the-test-machine), +invented by the bbqd-goats team at Funding Circle. I talked about the +test-machine at one of the London Clojure meetups last year in more +detail but will try to give you the elevator pitch here. + +![The Test Machine](/images/generating-generators/test-machine-diagram.png) + +The core value proposition of the test-machine is that it is a great +way to test any system whose input or output can be captured by +kafka. You tell it which topics to watch, submit some test-commands, +and the test-machine will sit there loading anything that gets written +by the system under test to the watched topics into the journal. The +journal is a clojure agent which means you can add watchers that get +invoked whenever the journal is changed (e.g. when data is loaded into +it from a kafka topic). The final test-command is usually a watcher +which watches the journal until the supplied predicate succeeds. + +Also included under the jackdaw.test namespace are some fixture +building functions for carrying out tasks that are frequently required +to setup the system under test. Things like creating kafka topics, +creating connectors, starting kafka streams. The functions in this +namespace are higher-order fixture functions so they usually accept +parameters to configure what exactly they will do, and return a +function compatible for use with clojure.test's `use-fixtures` +(i.e. the function returned accepts a parameter `t` which is invoked +at some appropriate point during the fixture's execution). + +There is also a `with-fixtures` macro which is just a bit of syntactic +sugar around `join-fixtures` so that each test can be explicit +about which fixtures it requires rather than rely on a global list +of fixtures specified in `use-fixtures`. + +### Building the Test Helper + +The test-wrangler function is just the helper function that brings all +this together. + + * The data generator + * The test setup + * Inserting the data to the database using the test-machine + * Defining a watcher that waits until the corresponding data + appears in the journal after being slurped in from kafka. + +But it all stems from being able to use the generated specs to generate +the input test-data. Everything else uses the generated data as an input + +For example, from the input data, we can generate a `:do!` command that +inserts the records into the database in the correct order. Before that, +we’ve already used the input data to figure out which topics need to be +created by the `topic-fixture` and which tables need to be truncated in the +source database. And finally, we use the input data to figure +out how to parameterize the debezium connector with which tables to monitor. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn test-wrangler + "Test a wrangler by inserting generated data into mysql, and then providing both the generated + data and the wrangled data (after allowing it to pass through the debezium connector) to an + assertion function + + The test function should expect a map with the following keys... + + :before The generated value that was inserted into the DB + :after The corresponding 'wrangled' value that eventually shows up in the topic + :logs Any logs produced by the system under test + " + {:style/indent 1} + [{:keys [schema logs entity before-fn after-fn build-fn watch-fn out-topic-override] :as wrangle-opts} test-fn] + (println (str (new java.util.Date)) "Testing" entity) + (let [inputs (info/gen-for-entity schema entity 1) + before (before-fn inputs) + topic-metadata {:before (dbz-topic "test_input" "fc_de_prod" (info/underscore (name entity))) + entity (wrangled-topic entity 1 (select-keys wrangle-opts [:out-topic-override])) + :de (dbz-topic "loan_manager" "fc_de_prod" (info/underscore (name entity))) + :es (dbz-topic "loan_manager" "fc_es_prod" (info/underscore (name entity))) + :nl (dbz-topic "loan_manager" "fc_nl_prod" (info/underscore (name entity)))} + logger (sc/make-test-logger logs) + + {:keys [results journal]} (fix/with-fixtures [(fix/topic-fixture +kafka-config+ topic-metadata) + (fn [t] + (jdbc/with-db-connection [db +mysql-spec+] + (jdbc/with-db-transaction [tx db] + (without-constraints tx + (fn [] + (doseq [e (map second inputs)] + (jdbc/execute! tx (format "truncate %s;" (info/underscore (name e))))) + (t)))))) + (connector-fixture {:base-url +dbz-base-url+ + :connector (dbz-connector "fc_de_prod" inputs)}) + (fix/kstream-fixture {:topology (partial build-fn logger) + :config (sut/config)})] + (jd.test/with-test-machine (jd.test/kafka-transport +kafka-config+ topic-metadata) + (fn [machine] + (jd.test/run-test machine + [[:println "> Starting test ..."] + [:do! (fn [_] + (jdbc/with-db-connection [db +mysql-spec+] + (jdbc/with-db-transaction [tx db] + (process-mysql-commands tx inputs))))] + [:println "> Watching for results ..."] + [:watch (every-pred + (partial watch-fn inputs "fc_es_prod") + (partial watch-fn inputs "fc_de_prod") + (partial watch-fn inputs "fc_nl_prod")) + {:timeout 45000}] + [:println "> Got results, checking ..."]]))))] + (if (every? #(= :ok (:status %)) results) + (test-fn {:results results + :before before + :after (after-fn inputs journal) + :journal journal + :logs @logs}) + (throw (ex-info "One or more test steps failed: " {:results results}))) + (println (str (new java.util.Date)) "Testing complete (check output for failures)"))) +{% endhighlight %} + +### Assertion Helpers + +After applying the test-commands, the test-helper uses callbacks +provided by the author to extract from the journal the data of +interest. In this case, we basically want before/after representations +of the data. If you check above, that is what is going on where we're +calling `test-fn` with the extracted data. + +Since the test-fn is provided by the user they can define it however +they like but we found it useful to define it as a composition of a +number of tests that were largely independent but share this common +contract of wanting to see the before/after representations of the +data. + +The `do-assertions` function is again just a bit of syntactic sugar +that allows the test-author to just enumerate a bunch of domain specific +test declarations that roll up into a single test function that matches +the signature expected by the call to `test-fn` above. + +{% highlight clojure %} +(defn do-assertions + [& assertion-fns] + (fn [args] + (doseq [afn assertion-fns] + (afn args)))) + +(defn includes? + [included-keys] + (fn [{:keys [after]}] + (println " - checking includes?" included-keys) + (is (every? #(clojure.set/superset? (set (keys %)) after))))) + +(defn excludes? + [excluded-keys] + (fn [{:keys [before after]}] + (println " - checking excludes?" excluded-keys) + (doseq [k excluded-keys] + (testing (format "checking %s is excluded" k) + (is (every? #(not (contains? % k)) after)))))) + +(defn uuids? + [uuid-keys] + (fn [{:keys [before after]}] + (println " - checking uuids?" uuid-keys) + (doseq [k uuid-keys] + (testing (format "checking %s is a uuid" k) + (is (every? #(uuid? (java.util.UUID/fromString (get % k))) after)))))) +{% endhighlight %} + diff --git a/about.md b/about.md index bc21f5731bf4b..00ff64d4c85ac 100644 --- a/about.md +++ b/about.md @@ -4,12 +4,23 @@ title: About permalink: /about/ --- -Some information about you! +My name is Andy Chambers. I'm a software engineer with interests in getting +data from A to B. Recently I've been having a lot of fun doing that with +with Clojure and Kafka. 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