[rabbitmq-discuss] Design Decision

[Alvaro Videla]

Hi,

Have you looked into the topic exchange?

Cheers,

Alvaro

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Tobias Bühlmann
<tbuehlmann.android at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm pretty new to RabbitMQ and AMQP in general and I have the feeling my
> design decisions regarding this problem might be wrong. So, the problem: I
> have a relational database with a notifications table where each
> notification has many associated apps. Each app has itself many devices.
> Now, a producer will check the table for new notifications with a specific
> state. If there are any, grab them and produce a message for each device in
> each app associated with the new notification. After that, some consumer
> workers will work the queue(s) off and deliver the messages to the devices.
>
> Now, since the message payload will differ depending on the app type, my
> idea was to dynamically generate queues for each app for a notification.
> Having a notification with ID=42 and associated apps with IDS=110, 112, I
> would generate the queues "42_110" and "42_112". Then, consumer workers
> would be notified about the new queues and work them off. As the workers
> need the notification and app data in addition to the message payload
> itself, they could easily get it by splitting the queue name at "_" and
> querying the database.
>
> Despite I think this could work, it just doesn't feel right. Is there any
> opinionated way to go? How would you design it? Appreciating any help. :)
>
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