[rabbitmq-discuss] Are there any good Perl AMQP libraries?

Wed Nov 9 06:39:51 GMT 2011

On 09/11/11 17:34, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> On 09/11/11 12:19, Al Tobey wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> <snip>
>> > However, I wondered if there are any decent AMQP libraries available
>> > for Perl?
>>
>> I've seen, but not used Net::RabbitMQ.
>> http://search.cpan.org/~jesus/Net--RabbitMQ-0.2.2/RabbitMQ.pm
>
> Hey Al,
> I didn't think to search for RabbitMQ, just AMQP. >.<
>
> I've just been having a play with Net::RabbitMQ today, and am not
> getting a great feeling about it. The documentation is, at best, sparse,
> and in places simply incomplete.
>
> It also seems to be missing any kind of 'wait for message' functionality.
> ie. As far as I can tell, you need to do a busy-loop on get, which'll
> spin your CPU at 100% until a message comes in. Not ideal :/
>
> I'm filing a bug with the author about that now - I think they need to
> add a method to expose amqp_simple_wait_frame() from the underlying C
> library.

Ah, wait, the recv() method in Net::RabbitMQ does what I want; it's just 
not clear from the documentation at all. :/