// Package embeddednats starts an in-process NATS server with JetStream enabled. // // This lets the whole unibus stack run with `go run` without installing or // managing a separate NATS deployment. In production, point clients at an // external NATS via the --nats-url flag instead of using this. package embeddednats import ( "fmt" "time" server "github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server" ) // Start launches an embedded nats-server with JetStream enabled, listening on // the given port and persisting JetStream state under storeDir. The listen host // is left at the nats-server default ("0.0.0.0", all interfaces). It blocks // until the server is ready to accept connections (up to 5s) and returns the // running server. The caller is responsible for calling Shutdown on it. // // Start is a thin backward-compatible wrapper over StartHost; callers that need // to control the bind interface (loopback vs LAN) should use StartHost directly. func Start(storeDir string, port int) (*server.Server, error) { return StartHost(storeDir, "", port) } // StartHost is Start with explicit control over the bind interface. host selects // which network interface the data plane listens on: pass "127.0.0.1" to keep // NATS loopback-only (the safe default for a single-host dev stack) or "0.0.0.0" // to expose it to the LAN so remote peers (phones, other PCs) can connect. An // empty host falls back to the nats-server default ("0.0.0.0", all interfaces). func StartHost(storeDir, host string, port int) (*server.Server, error) { return StartHostAuth(storeDir, host, port, nil) } // StartHostAuth is StartHost with an optional custom client authenticator. When // auth is non-nil it is installed as Options.CustomClientAuthentication, so the // data plane only accepts clients the authenticator approves (nkey signature + // bus allowlist). When auth is nil the server accepts any client (the legacy, // network-trusted behavior) — used by dev stacks and tests that have not enabled // bus auth. func StartHostAuth(storeDir, host string, port int, auth server.Authentication) (*server.Server, error) { opts := &server.Options{ JetStream: true, StoreDir: storeDir, Host: host, Port: port, DontListen: false, // Keep the embedded server quiet by default; the host app logs the URLs. NoLog: true, NoSigs: true, } if auth != nil { opts.CustomClientAuthentication = auth // A CustomClientAuthentication alone does not make the server advertise a // nonce in its INFO line, and nats.go refuses to connect with an nkey to a // server that does not ("nkeys not supported by the server"). Forcing the // nonce makes nkey clients sign the challenge our authenticator verifies. opts.AlwaysEnableNonce = true } ns, err := server.NewServer(opts) if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("embeddednats: new server: %w", err) } go ns.Start() if !ns.ReadyForConnections(5 * time.Second) { ns.Shutdown() return nil, fmt.Errorf("embeddednats: server not ready for connections within 5s") } return ns, nil } // ClientURL returns a NATS connection URL for the running embedded server. func ClientURL(ns *server.Server) string { return ns.ClientURL() }