[rabbitmq-discuss] Do not require an acknowledgement for a single message

[Michael Klishin]

 On 4 April 2014 at 16:18:02, Mateusz Bieniek (bieniekmat at gmail.com) wrote:
> > Now we have a special case. We want to publish a reboot command.  
> In this case, the client reboots itself as part of the processing,  
> and so never acknowledges the reboot message. So when it launches,  
> it consumes the message again and the cycle beings.
>  
> Updating the client side is highly undesirable, so please assume  
> it's not a possibility. Is there a way we can publish a single message  
> and omit acknowledgement for it?

What you can do is check “redelivered” property and if a message
is of type “reboot” but is a redelivery, ignore it.
--  
MK  

Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ