[rabbitmq-discuss] Help defining appropriate queue model

Wed Mar 2 16:30:40 GMT 2011

Forgot to copy the list.

Hi Alexis, thank you for the link.
It answers some of my doubts, but there are still some bits I don't
understand. For example, the page says: "The messages will be lost if
no queue is bound to the exchange yet, but that's okay for us; if no
consumer is listening yet (i.e., the exchange hasn't been created) we
can safely discard the message.". That's not the case for me; what I
wanted to do is publish once and consume as many times as necessary.
The scenarios I can't quite grasp yet are:

* The producer publishes the message before any consumers are running;
* The consumer receives the message, dies and reboots, consumes the
same message once more.

Are these even possible?
Thanks again.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:20, Alexis Richardson <alexis at rabbitmq.com> wrote:
> Fabio
>
> The simplest way is probably as follows:
>
> http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorial-three-python.html
>
> Note that each consumer has its own queue, which acts as a buffer on
> behalf of that consumer.  The downside of this is a slow consumer may
> get several configuration updates at once, so it will need to discard
> the earlier ones but should act on the latest.
>
> alexis
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Fabio Margarido
> <fabiomargarido at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> I'm about to use RabbitMQ in my first amqp project and am having a bit
>> of difficulty identifying the necessary queues and exchanges.
>> In our use case, there will be only one producer who publishes a
>> message to the broker. This message represents configuration data.
>> Then multiple consumers read the published configuration from the
>> broker during their startup process, so it shouldn't happen very
>> often. The message should remain in the queue after consumption so
>> that the following consumers are able to read it. When some
>> configuration data changes, the producer republishes it and alerts
>> (possibly through some other queue) the consumers, who then read the
>> configuration message again.
>> I know this question isn't exactly related to RabbitMQ, but reading
>> the AMQP spec didn't help much. Could anyone help me identify which
>> exchange types, queue and message parameters I need for this to work?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Fabio.
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