EXPERIMENTAL: speed up streaming pull (circumvent proto wrapper clases)

google/cloud/pubsub_v1/subscriber/_protocol/streaming_pull_manager.py

@@ -602,9 +602,13 @@ def _on_response(self, response):
             )
             return
 
+        # Circumvent the wrapper class and operate on the raw protobuf message
+        # to gain attribute access performance.
+        received_messages = response._pb.received_messages
+
         _LOGGER.debug(
             "Processing %s received message(s), currently on hold %s (bytes %s).",
-            len(response.received_messages),
+            len(received_messages),
             self._messages_on_hold.size,
             self._on_hold_bytes,
         )
@@ -614,12 +618,12 @@ def _on_response(self, response):
         # received them.
         items = [
             requests.ModAckRequest(message.ack_id, self._ack_histogram.percentile(99))
-            for message in response.received_messages
+            for message in received_messages
         ]
         self._dispatcher.modify_ack_deadline(items)
 
         with self._pause_resume_lock:
-            for received_message in response.received_messages:
+            for received_message in received_messages:
                 message = google.cloud.pubsub_v1.subscriber.message.Message(
                     received_message.message,
                     received_message.ack_id,

google/cloud/pubsub_v1/subscriber/message.py

@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
+import datetime as dt
 import json
 import math
+import pytz
 import time
 
 from google.cloud.pubsub_v1.subscriber._protocol import requests
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ def __init__(self, message, ack_id, delivery_attempt, request_queue):
 
         Args:
             message (~.pubsub_v1.types.PubsubMessage): The message received
-                from Pub/Sub.
+                from Pub/Sub.  TODO: it's the raw protobuf message! for performance
             ack_id (str): The ack_id received from Pub/Sub.
             delivery_attempt (int): The delivery attempt counter received
                 from Pub/Sub if a DeadLetterPolicy is set on the subscription,
@@ -99,6 +101,15 @@ def __init__(self, message, ack_id, delivery_attempt, request_queue):
         # the default lease deadline.
         self._received_timestamp = time.time()
 
+        self._attributes = message.attributes
+        self._data = message.data
+        self._publish_time = dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(
+            message.publish_time.seconds + message.publish_time.nanos / 1e9,
+            tz=pytz.UTC,
+        )
+        self._ordering_key = message.ordering_key
+        self._size = message.ByteSize()
+
     def __repr__(self):
         # Get an abbreviated version of the data.
         abbv_data = self._message.data
@@ -130,7 +141,7 @@ def attributes(self):
             .ScalarMapContainer: The message's attributes. This is a
             ``dict``-like object provided by ``google.protobuf``.
         """
-        return self._message.attributes
+        return self._attributes
 
     @property
     def data(self):
@@ -140,7 +151,7 @@ def data(self):
             bytes: The message data. This is always a bytestring; if you
                 want a text string, call :meth:`bytes.decode`.
         """
-        return self._message.data
+        return self._data
 
     @property
     def publish_time(self):
@@ -149,17 +160,17 @@ def publish_time(self):
         Returns:
             datetime: The date and time that the message was published.
         """
-        return self._message.publish_time
+        return self._publish_time
 
     @property
     def ordering_key(self):
         """str: the ordering key used to publish the message."""
-        return self._message.ordering_key
+        return self._ordering_key
 
     @property
     def size(self):
         """Return the size of the underlying message, in bytes."""
-        return self._message._pb.ByteSize()
+        return self._size
 
     @property
     def ack_id(self):

tests/unit/pubsub_v1/subscriber/test_message.py

@@ -36,16 +36,19 @@
 def create_message(data, ack_id="ACKID", delivery_attempt=0, ordering_key="", **attrs):
     with mock.patch.object(time, "time") as time_:
         time_.return_value = RECEIVED_SECONDS
-        msg = message.Message(
-            message=gapic_types.PubsubMessage(
-                attributes=attrs,
-                data=data,
-                message_id="message_id",
-                publish_time=timestamp_pb2.Timestamp(
-                    seconds=PUBLISHED_SECONDS, nanos=PUBLISHED_MICROS * 1000
-                ),
-                ordering_key=ordering_key,
+        gapic_pubsub_message = gapic_types.PubsubMessage(
+            attributes=attrs,
+            data=data,
+            message_id="message_id",
+            publish_time=timestamp_pb2.Timestamp(
+                seconds=PUBLISHED_SECONDS, nanos=PUBLISHED_MICROS * 1000
             ),
+            ordering_key=ordering_key,
+        )
+        msg = message.Message(
+            # The code under test uses a raw protobuf PubsubMessage, i.e. w/o additional
+            # Python class wrappers, hence the "_pb"
+            message=gapic_pubsub_message._pb,
             ack_id=ack_id,
             delivery_attempt=delivery_attempt,
             request_queue=queue.Queue(),

tests/unit/pubsub_v1/subscriber/test_messages_on_hold.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 def make_message(ack_id, ordering_key):
     proto_msg = gapic_types.PubsubMessage(data=b"Q", ordering_key=ordering_key)
-    return message.Message(proto_msg, ack_id, 0, queue.Queue())
+    return message.Message(proto_msg._pb, ack_id, 0, queue.Queue())
 
 
 def test_init():