This example demonstrates the core NATS publish-subscribe
behavior. This is the fundamental pattern that all other NATS
patterns and higher-level APIs build upon. There are a few takeaways from this example:
- Delivery is an at-most-once. For MQTT users, this is referred to as Quality of Service (QoS) 0.
- There are two circumstances when a published message won’t be delivered to a subscriber:
- The subscriber does not have an active connection to the server (i.e. the client is temporarily offline for some reason)
- There is a network interruption where the message is ultimately dropped
- Messages are published to subjects which can be one or more concrete tokens, e.g.
greet.bob. Subscribers can utilize wildcards to show interest on a set of matching subjects.
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