[rabbitmq-discuss] [Q] best way to add a sequencer to the broker

[Alexis Richardson]

Chuck

Where do you want to set the sequence number?

- at the Publisher(s)
- at the Exchanges(s)
- at the Queue(s)
- at your Sequencer(s)

?

alexis



On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Chuck Remes wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 29, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Ben Hood wrote:
>>>> 3. Is there a way to make this more dynamic so I do not have to
>>>> declare all the exchanges up-front in this sequencer code? Ideally
>>>> this service could detect that new exchanges were declared by other
>>>> services and automatically subscribe to them to do the sequence
>>>> stamping and routing.
>>>
>>> I don't know if the terminology is right here, because you generally
>>> don't subscribe to an exchange, rather to a queue.
>>
>> You are right. I was confusing the terminology. Let me try again.
>>
>> As other services declare exchanges and publish to them, I would like
>> my Sequencer to dynamically detect the existence of a new Exchange so
>> it can create a queue, bind the new queue to the Exchange and receive
>> messages from it for processing and republishing.
>
>
> Let me provide more reasoning for why I would like to do this
> dynamically.
>
> PublisherA may create a durable topic Exchange called out.topic1.
> PublisherB may create a non-durable Exchange called out.topic2.
>
> The Sequencer has to republish all messages from both Exchanges to two
> new Exchanges that share the same semantics (durable vs non-durable,
> immediate, mandatory, etc). The Sequencer would need to declare a new
> durable Exchange called in.topic1 for republishing those messages.
> Likewise, it would declare a non-durable Exchange for publishing to
> in.topic2. (I hope I am not mixing up my durable/immediate/mandatory
> terminology with Exchanges when they apply to Queues or something.)
>
> A naive way of creating the Sequencer would be to hardcode all of
> these things but that could rapidly become a maintenance nightmare as
> the distributed application grows.
>
> cr
>
>
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