[rabbitmq-discuss] is anybody using 'immediate' publish?

Thu Sep 13 17:32:56 BST 2012

Dear Rabbit users,

AMQP's basic.publish method has two flags - mandatory and immediate - 
that trigger checks at the server and result in messages getting 
returned to clients with basic.return when the necessary conditions 
aren't met. See 
http://www.rabbitmq.com/amqp-0-9-1-reference.html#basic.publish for the 
details.

I can just about see why 'mandatory' may be useful, but 'immediate' has 
always struck me as a bizarre and I fear that anybody using it may well 
do so w/o fully understanding the semantics - can't blame them, it *is* 
bizarre. Because of that, and since it complicates the code in many 
places, we are considering dropping support for 'immediate'.

So is anybody actually using the 'immediate' flag?

Regards,

Matthias.