[rabbitmq-discuss] How to do blocking asynchronously with Pika? I want 1 message at a time and stop receiving until I'm ready again.

Thu Feb 21 00:12:12 GMT 2013

On 20/02/13 23:32, Tim Watson wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2013, at 20:50, Scott Chapman wrote:
>> What's the best practice to make it so I receive a message in a
>> single-threaded app, process it and don't get any more messages
>> until I'm ready again?
>>
>
> I would consider using basic.get with noAck=false for this.

That would require polling, i.e. repeated basic.get's when the queue is 
empty, which is undesirable. Michael's suggestion of cancelling the 
consumer works better in that regard.

Matthias.