Golang CDEvents SDK

February 13, 2026 · View on GitHub

Golang SDK to emit CDEvents.

The SDK can be used to create CDEvents and send them as CloudEvents, as well as parse a received CloudEvent into a CDEvent.

Get started

Add the module as dependency using go mod:

go get github.com/cdevents/sdk-go

And import the module in your code corresponding to the desired version of the specification. For CDEvents v0.5.x (latest), use:

import cdeventsv05 "github.com/cdevents/sdk-go/pkg/api/v05"

For CDEvents v0.4.x, use:

import cdeventsv04 "github.com/cdevents/sdk-go/pkg/api/v04"

Create your first CDEvent

To create a CDEvent, for instance a pipelineRun queued one:

func main() {

    // Create the base event
    event, err := cdeventsv05.NewPipelineRunQueuedEvent()
    if err != nil {
      log.Fatalf("could not create a cdevent, %v", err)
    }

    // Set the required context fields
    event.SetSubjectId("myPipelineRun1")
    event.SetSource("my/first/cdevent/program")

    // Set the required subject fields
    event.SetSubjectPipelineName("myPipeline")
    event.SetSubjectUrl("https://example.com/myPipeline")
}

Send your first CDEvent as CloudEvent

Import the modules in your code

import cdevents "github.com/cdevents/sdk-go/pkg/api"
import cloudevents "github.com/cloudevents/sdk-go/v2"

To send a CDEvent as CloudEvent:

func main() {
    // (...) set the event first
    ce, err := cdevents.AsCloudEvent(event)

    // Set send options
    ctx := cloudevents.ContextWithTarget(context.Background(), "http://localhost:8080/")
    ctx = cloudevents.WithEncodingBinary(ctx)

    c, err := cloudevents.NewClientHTTP()
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("failed to create client, %v", err)
    }

    // Send the CloudEvent
    // c is a CloudEvent client
    if result := c.Send(ctx, *ce); cloudevents.IsUndelivered(result) {
        log.Fatalf("failed to send, %v", result)
    }
}

See the CloudEvents docs as well.

Documentation

More examples are available in the docs folder. Online API Reference:

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, see our development guide.

References

CDEvents