[rabbitmq-discuss] Message expiry in topics

Mon Jul 2 20:33:33 BST 2007

Ben,

"Ben Hood" <0x6e6562 at gmail.com> writes:

> I was wondering how topic messages get expired. When publishing a
> basic message you can get the expiration field in the BasicProperties
> but it's a String so I don't know what the syntax or the value should
> be. Is this maybe listed in the spec somewhere?

The spec is silent on this.

RabbitMQ treats 'expiration' as an opaque field - we pass it along but
don't do anything with it.

Regards,

Matthias.