[rabbitmq-discuss] is anybody using 'immediate' publish?

Fri Sep 14 08:49:23 BST 2012

Matthias,

I'd support this move. Have never used "immediate".

Regards,
Brett

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On 14/09/2012, at 4:32 AM, Matthias Radestock <matthias at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> Dear Rabbit users,
> 
> AMQP's basic.publish method has two flags - mandatory and immediate - that trigger checks at the server and result in messages getting returned to clients with basic.return when the necessary conditions aren't met. See http://www.rabbitmq.com/amqp-0-9-1-reference.html#basic.publish for the details.
> 
> I can just about see why 'mandatory' may be useful, but 'immediate' has always struck me as a bizarre and I fear that anybody using it may well do so w/o fully understanding the semantics - can't blame them, it *is* bizarre. Because of that, and since it complicates the code in many places, we are considering dropping support for 'immediate'.
> 
> So is anybody actually using the 'immediate' flag?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias.
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