[rabbitmq-discuss] TTL on Messages

[Jordan]

Ah, got it.  I'll look into dead letter exchanges.  Thanks so much!

On Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:29:12 AM UTC-7, Stephen Young wrote:
>
> TTL is set on a queue basis, so publishing to queue *ttl_queue_1s* that 
> has been initialized {x-message-ttl: 1000} the message will be dropped by 
> rabbitmq after one second. Messages themselves cannot set their own TTL, as 
> far as I'm aware.
> The best approach I've found to tracking what gets dropped is using dead 
> letter exchanges (http://www.rabbitmq.com/dlx.html) - so you'd configure 
> your TTL queue with {x-dead-letter-exchange: other_exchange} and then route 
> the requests through there and track on the client side what has been 
> dropped.
>
> On Thursday, September 20, 2012 3:40:34 AM UTC-4, Jordan wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm currently using node-amqp <https://github.com/postwait/node-amqp>, 
>> and would like to set an expiration on my messages.
>>
>> I recently learned about the 'x-message-ttl' flag, but I'm not quite 
>> sure how to properly use it.  In particular, if a message expires, do I 
>> have any way of knowing *which* message it was?  Perhaps a correlation 
>> id?
>>
>> Thanks for the help!
>>
>
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