[rabbitmq-discuss] [BUG] Erlang RabbitMQ client requires installed server code

[Ben Hood]

Edwin,

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Edwin Fine
<rabbitmq-discuss_efine at usa.net> wrote:
>
> As the most up to date client code currently stands, amqp_channel calls
> rabbit_amqqueue in a handle_info function. Although this handle_info
> function is used only by the direct client, I am uncomfortable with having
> server-specific code mixed in with pure client code. There should be a clean
> separation of concerns and all "direct" code, which calls into the
> server-specific code, should be in one module, and the network-only code in
> another.

The clean separation has been accomplished by having both modes of
operation (embedded vs TCP) implemented in separate driver modules.

So if you want to build a network only package, you can just leave out
the amqp_direct_driver module.

Hence with all due respect, I would disagree that concerns have been mixed.

> amqp_network_driver calls rabbit_framing_channel, which in turn calls
> rabbit_channel. So indirectly, the network client uses rabbit_channel and
> needs it in the common distribution.

This is true, but this only pertains to the do/2 and do/3 calls, which
*could* be abstracted out of the rabbit_channel module with not too
many changes.

> So, ignoring modules provided by Erlang/OTP, and the network client modules
> themselves, the following modules are needed by the network client:
>
> hessian

I have just deleted the reference to hessian (bug19334). This was
something experimental and should not be in the client code base.

> rabbit_binary_generator
> rabbit_framing
> rabbit_framing_channel
> rabbit_heartbeat
> rabbit_misc
> rabbit_reader
> rabbit_writer

Ben