[rabbitmq-discuss] Calls to management functions

[Matthias Radestock]

Ben,

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

> Speaking of re-inventing the wheel, I based my RPC handler on the
> rabbit_management module, which included a fair amount of copy and
> paste. Since rabbit_management is an implementation of the gen_server
> behaviour, I was wondering if there is any merit in abstracting out
> the template callbacks (i.e. handle_management_message() and reply()
> ), so that this could be more reuseable with different (a) server
> functionality and (b) different wireformats. At the moment, this
> module can only invoke rabbitmq management calls ( point (a) ) and
> only works with JSON ( point (b) ). I don't whether you can have a
> behaviour within a behaviour or whether you can have a parameterizable
> gen_server implementation.

There two ways to do this in general:

1) make the particular gen_server implementation higher-order. In the
above case we would pass handle_management_message etc functions as
arguments on initialisation.

2) create a custom behaviour


Matthias.