[rabbitmq-discuss] List queues via AMQP?

Fri Jan 14 12:38:00 GMT 2011

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 07:31:40AM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Dmitri Minaev <minaev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another option is using Erlang remote shell to call RabbitMQ's
> > exported function rabbit_amqqueue:info_all.
> 
> Per http://www.rabbitmq.com/faq.html#server-api, "the Rabbit server
> API is not designed for public consumption."
> 
> My understanding is that the RabbitMQ Erlang API is private, and not
> meant to be used except by components of Rabbit itself.  So I'd rather
> rely on something that's either standardized (like AMQP) or part of
> the public API (like rabbitmqctl or the management plugin).

Absolutely - we make zero guarantees about changing such internal APIs
and you are not recommended to rely on them.

Matthew