List of STOMP Client Libraries

From Open Rail Data Wiki

STOMP is a relatively simple protocol, which means that there's a large number of third-party libraries available for it, of varying quality. This list is intended to help with the process of working out which libraries to avoid, and which might be more suitable. Note that this list is not exhaustive, is not based on extensive testing, and it's not a comprehensive list of recommendations.

The table

  • Highest version supported – Highest STOMP version the client supports. 1.2 is best, 1.1 is usually acceptable, 1.0 lacks support for heartbeating.
  • Acknowledgements – Can you send an ACK for a frame? If not, you won't be able to set up a durable subscription.
  • content-length – If a client doesn't support the content-length header, it won't work with the push port.

If using the Network Rail feeds on the Artemis server (which will eventually become the only option), if your client sends nothing for 60 seconds, you will be disconnected. If you're using a relatively high-volume feed, acknowledgements are one way around this with STOMP 1.0, on later versions, heartbeating is the way to go.

If a library supports all 1.2 features when tested, its name will be in bold.

Potentially viable STOMP clients

Language Name/version Links Highest version supported heartbeating acknowledgements content-length remarks
PHP stomp-php 5.1.0 https://github.com/stomp-php/stomp-php https://packagist.org/packages/stomp-php/stomp-php 1.2 yes yes yes OK for feeds, not necessarily for general use [1]
Python stomp.py 8.1.0 https://pypi.org/project/stomp.py/ 1.2 yes yes yes
Perl Net::STOMP::Client 2.5 https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::STOMP::Client 1.2 yes yes yes
JS stompit 1.0.0 https://www.npmjs.com/package/stompit 1.2 yes yes yes
Go stomp 3.0.5 https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-stomp/stomp/v3 1.2 yes yes yes
Ruby stomp 1.4.10 https://rubygems.org/gems/stomp 1.1 yes yes yes
Elixir Barytherium 0.6.2 https://hex.pm/packages/barytherium 1.2 yes yes yes
Erlang Platybelodon 0.1.0 https://hex.pm/packages/platybelodon 1.2 yes yes yes

Non-recommended STOMP clients

Clients which only support 1.0 with a viable alternative, or which have significant bugs

Language Name/version Links Highest version supported heartbeating acknowledgements content-length remarks
PHP stomp 2.0.3 https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.stomp.php https://pecl.php.net/package/stomp 1.0 no yes yes
Java Gozirra https://github.com/pedroteixeira/gozirra 1.0 no no ? Not suitable for feeds
JS stomp-client 0.9.0 https://www.npmjs.com/package/stomp-client 1.0 no yes yes claimed 1.1 support is broken[2]

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