# Circulate
[](https://crates.io/crates/circulate)
[](https://github.com/khonsulabs/circulate/actions?query=workflow:Tests)
[](https://khonsulabs.github.io/circulate/main/circulate/)
Circulate is a lightweight
[PubSub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern)
framework that supports both async and non-async code. This project is written
for [BonsaiDb](https://github.com/khonsulabs/bonsaidb). While BonsaiDb's async
relies upon tokio, this crate is runtime agnostic thanks to the excellent crate
[flume](https://github.com/zesterer/flume).
## Async Example
```rust
let relay = Relay::default();
let subscriber = relay.create_subscriber();
subscriber.subscribe_to(&"some topic")?;
relay.publish(&"some topic", &AnySerializableType)?;
let message = subscriber.receiver().recv_async().await?;
println!(
"Received message on topic {}: {:?}",
message.topic::<String>()?,
message.payload::<AnySerializableType>()?
);
```
## Sync Example
```rust
let relay = Relay::default();
let subscriber = relay.create_subscriber();
subscriber.subscribe_to(&"some topic")?;
relay.publish(&"some topic", &AnySerializableType)?;
let message = subscriber.receiver().recv()?;
println!(
"Received message on topic {}: {:?}",
message.topic::<String>()?,
message.payload::<AnySerializableType>()?
);
```
## Open-source Licenses
This project, like all projects from [Khonsu Labs](https://khonsulabs.com/), are
open-source. This repository is available under the [MIT License](./LICENSE-MIT)
or the [Apache License 2.0](./LICENSE-APACHE).
To learn more about contributing, please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md).