[rabbitmq-discuss] are these features planned/do they already exist?

Fri Sep 16 18:15:41 BST 2011

Hi Matthias,

Thanks for your reply. See answers inline.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 5:11 AM, Matthias Radestock
<matthias at rabbitmq.com>wrote:

> Praveen,
>
>
> On 14/09/11 01:59, Praveen M wrote:
>
>> 1) Ability to consume messages in bulk. I see that basic consume does a
>> call back for each message..Is there an api to do the callback with a
>> user defined bulk of messages?
>>
>
> There isn't. What is the use case?

*We currently use oracle AQ for our messaging layer and it is one of it's
features. Was just curious if rabbit has it too. It's not a necessity. We
can workaround with what we have for our use. *

>
>
>  2) Is there a way to publish a message with a delay? I mean, is there a
>> way to publish a message with a delay and have the message consumed only
>> after the delay expires?
>>
>
> No. Do you require the delay to be specified per message or would it
> suffice if the same delay was applied to all messages in a queue? The latter
> is something we have contemplated adding, though it's not on our near/medium
> term todo list.
>
>  *Yes. Our use case requires per message delay to be specified. The use
case here is when messages are scheduled one -off by user actions.*

>
>  3) Are dead-letter queues there yet?
>>
>
> No, but we are working on it. No ETA yet.
>
>  and messages with TTL?
>>
>
> We introduced a per-queue message ttl setting a while ago. See
> http://www.rabbitmq.com/**extensions.html#queue-ttl<http://www.rabbitmq.com/extensions.html#queue-ttl>

*ah..i missed that..thanks.*

>
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthias.
>

-- 
-Praveen
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