[rabbitmq-discuss] Binding to topic exchange with a negation wildcard
Simon MacMullen
simon at rabbitmq.com
Thu Sep 13 09:40:55 BST 2012
On 12/09/2012 8:37PM, Dave Curylo wrote:
> Is it possible to bind a queue to a topic exchange with a condition that
> the topic does NOT match a certain wildcard?
The topic exchange doesn't have that logic. But you can fake it with the
alternate exchange feature, at the cost of a few more exchanges.
Declare a fanout exchange you'll publish to (let's call it
"my-exchange"). Declare a fanout exchange called "junk".
The when each consumer declares a queue, it also declares a topic
exchange and a fanout exchange. The alternate-exchange for the topic
exchange should be set to the fanout exchange. It then binds the topic
exchange to "my-exchange", and "junk" to the topic exchange, with a
routing key equal to the topics it doesn't want.
Thus messages with the "bad" routing key go:
[my-exchange] -> [per-consumer-topic] -> [junk]
and the rest go:
[my-exchange] -> [per-consumer-topic] -> [per-consumer-fanout] ->
[per-consumer-queue]
I think that's the simplest you can make it. But exchanges are cheap in
general, it's just routing logic.
But I wonder whether some sort of more explicit negation feature would
be feasible / useful. Hmm.
Cheers, Simon
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