<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm looking at some of the existing plugins and I just want to make sure I understand how the plugins are supervised in the broker.<div><br></div><div>It looks like it starts the application defined in the plugin's .app file, whose start() function should call my plugin's supervisor's start_link() function, correct?</div><div><br></div><div>Looking at rabbit_shovel, the plugin loads the configuration in the start_link() function, which I assume is coming from the main rabbit.config file? I don't have to have a separate config file for my plugin, correct?</div><div><br></div><div>I'll need to listen on multiple exchanges, so I'm assuming I'll need a gen_server, which starts separate consumers, for each configuration element (akin to what rabbit_shovel is doing by creating a child configuration in the supervisor for each element in the configuration file). How far can I go before I need to worry about resource usage of the "process per consumer" approach? Or should I have a consumer that listens to multiple exchanges (since it'll be doing almost the same thing for every message that comes through)?<br><div>
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