[rabbitmq-discuss] Message expiry in topics

Matthias Radestock matthias at lshift.net
Mon Jul 2 20:33:33 BST 2007


Ben,

"Ben Hood" <0x6e6562 at gmail.com> writes:

> I was wondering how topic messages get expired. When publishing a
> basic message you can get the expiration field in the BasicProperties
> but it's a String so I don't know what the syntax or the value should
> be. Is this maybe listed in the spec somewhere?

The spec is silent on this.

RabbitMQ treats 'expiration' as an opaque field - we pass it along but
don't do anything with it.


Regards,


Matthias.




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