[rabbitmq-discuss] building chat

[Paul Jones]

Hi Ben,

It'll be a custom RabbitMQ module - as far as I've seen, the spec doesn't
specify anything like this (though I could be completely wrong on that).

Paul.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Ben Browitt <ben.browitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> That is interesting for two reasons. First because I might actually
> understand a bit of AMQP and second
> because you are addressing this issue.
>
> Will it be part of the AMQP spec or a custom RabbitMQ module?
> Maybe I can hack something until you'll release this functionality.
>
> And yes, I'll be interested to know when it is available for early testing.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Paul Jones <pauljones23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> The model does certainly work best in situations where consumers and
>> producers have little need to know of each other.
>>
>> We are, however, currently experimenting with some presence functionality.
>> This was originally prototyped quite a while ago, and it is currently being
>> reworked to be remove a number of issues that previously prevented it being
>> made mainstream. This functionality creates an exchange that will receive
>> information about when queues, exchanges and bindings are created and
>> deleted - this may help in your case by letting you see when a user
>> subscribes or unsubscribes from another user's exchange.
>>
>> It is still under fairly heavy development at the moment, but I can let
>> you know when it reaches a state where it might be useful to look at.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Ben Browitt <ben.browitt at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to understand how AMQP and RabbitMQ works by building a simple
>>> chat.
>>> From reading the AMQP specs I get the impression that it's best usage is
>>> when someone publish content to an exchange
>>> and someone else bind his queue to this exchange to get updates. This
>>> model works very well for publish-subscribe
>>> and to finance systems but chat could be different. I read the xmpp
>>> gateway docs and have some questions.
>>>
>>> In a chat we want to be able to get presence from users on our
>>> friend-list, send them messages
>>> and send subscription request and messages to users not yet on our
>>> friend-list.
>>>
>>> One possibility is that each user will have an exchange and a queue with
>>> binding to his own exchange.
>>> When user1 wants to send a message to user2 he send it directly to the
>>> exchange of user2.
>>> There is a problem with presence updates. If user1 changes his presence,
>>> he'll have to sends the update
>>> to the exchange of all the users on his friend-list. With this design we
>>> move the logic to the client rather then use the AMQP features.
>>>
>>> Another option is that when a user logs in he'll create a binding to the
>>> exchanges of all the users on his friend-list.
>>> When user1 want to send a private message or a presence update to user2
>>> he'll send it to his own exchange and it'll be directed to user2. The
>>> problem with this design is that users without mutual presence subscription
>>> can't send private message to each other and can't send subscription
>>> requests.
>>>
>>> Can you please share your thoughts on the two options and maybe other
>>> design options?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
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>>
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