[rabbitmq-discuss] properties.headers in Perl client

[Christian Legnitto]

Ah yes, I forgot I patched that locally and then realized I only needed to use headers for the STOMP backend so I didn't submit a pull request via GitHub. Sorry for providing misleading info.

On Dec 22, 2010, at 11:55 AM, vickerto wrote:

> I just looked through RabbitFoot again and it appears that, just like
> Net::RabbitMQ, you can't actually set the 'headers' property of the
> message headers.  Looking at the code that it uses to create the
> header:
> 
> sub _header {
>    my ($self, $args, $body,) = @_;
> 
>    $self->{connection}->_push_write(
>        Net::AMQP::Frame::Header->new(
>            weight => $args->{weight} || 0,
>            body_size => length($body),
>            header_frame => Net::AMQP::Protocol::Basic::ContentHeader-
>> new(
>                content_type => 'application/octet-stream',
>                content_encoding => '',
>                headers => {},
>                delivery_mode => 1,
>                priority => 1,
>                correlation_id => '',
>                expiration => '',
>                message_id => '',
>                timestamp => time,
>                type => '',
>                user_id => '',
>                app_id => '',
>                cluster_id => '',
>                %$args,
>            ),
>        ),
>        $self->{id},
>    );
> 
>    return $self;
> }
> 
> The 'headers => {}' is the problem.  I need to be able to set this to
> my own key/value array, but none of the clients that I have found
> actually allow for this.  I can modify it to accept a new argument,
> but I was hoping to find a client that I could use out of the box.
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 21, 5:24 pm, Christian Legnitto <clegni... at mozilla.com> wrote:
>> Net::RabbitFoot lets you set the headers as well. Take a look at how I do it @https://github.com/LegNeato/bugzilla-push/blob/master/Push/lib/Backen...(though I am not sure I actually pass any headers anywhere for that backend).
>> 
>> The code in RabbitFoot is @https://github.com/cooldaemon/RabbitFoot/blob/master/lib/AnyEvent/Rab...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>> 
>> On Dec 21, 2010, at 12:51 PM, vickerto wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Awesome, thanks!  I'll take a look.
>> 
>>> On Dec 21, 1:47 pm, Emile Joubert <em... at rabbitmq.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi vickerto,
>> 
>>>> I can confirm that POE::Component::Client::AMQP (by Eric Waters) lets
>>>> you set headers. This works for me:
>> 
>>>>      $queue->publish($msg,
>>>>        {
>>>>          headers => { 'key' => 'value'}
>>>>        }
>>>>      );
>> 
>>>> Regards
>> 
>>>> Emile
>> 
>>>> Op 21/12/2010 20:11, het vickerto geskryf:
>> 
>>>>>  From what I've seen, most of them just set the headers to an empty
>>>>> AMQP table with no way of setting them.  I'm taking a look at possibly
>>>>> updating Net::RabbitMQ (which uses librabbitmq) to accept the headers
>>>>> and process them, but I'm going to have to dust off the part of my
>>>>> brain that contains my knowledge of Perl and C :)
>> 
>>>>> On Dec 21, 12:41 pm, David Wragg<da... at rabbitmq.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>>>>>> vickerto<vicke... at gmail.com>  writes:
>>>>>>> I have successfully implemented a messaging system using one of the
>>>>>>> PHP clients that I found on the web.  I am currently working on a Perl
>>>>>>> counterpart that can send and receive messages to/from the same
>>>>>>> system.
>> 
>>>>>>> The problem that I am running into is that I was successfully able to
>>>>>>> use the properties.headers to store some key/value information about
>>>>>>> my message in the PHP client, but I have yet to find a Perl client
>>>>>>> that actually supports or uses these headers.  Am I missing something
>>>>>>> or does nobody actually use these headers in Perl?
>> 
>>>>>> Not all AMQP applications use the message headers, so it's plausible
>>>>>> that no-one has yet bothered to add support to the Perl clients.  Though
>>>>>> it would be a fairly significant omission, given that the headers are
>>>>>> (potentially) a part of every AMQP message.  I'm not aware of other
>>>>>> clients that take this short cut.
>> 
>>>>>> David
>> 
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