[rabbitmq-discuss] Consumer does not get error about queue dying

[Ben Hood]

Anuj,

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Ben Hood<0x6e6562 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortutenately this scenario was not catered for in the original spec, i.e.
> if a queue disappears there is no way to notify consumers of this queue.
> This semantic is being addressed from a protocol perspective, but for the
> meantime, this is how Rabbit will behave.

I forgot to mention that efforts are underway, albeit slowly, to
expose lifecycle events of things such as queues, bindings and
exchanges. This may provide a non-AMQP solution for notifying
subscribers that their queue has disappeared. However, there is no ETA
on this feature.

Ben