[rabbitmq-discuss] Channel vs Connection shutdowns

Wed May 29 09:54:13 BST 2013

Adam,

On 28/05/13 15:10, Adam Morgan wrote:
> Is there a way to instigate a non-application-initiated shutdown (ie,
> cause an error that results in a shutdown) on the Channel object instead
> of the Connection?

Take a look at all the errors that are labelled as "channel" in the spec 
at https://www.rabbitmq.com/amqp-0-9-1-reference.html#constants, and 
then look at the various AMQP commands documented in the spec to see 
which ones return such errors.

As you'll see from that, there are quite a few ways to trigger channel 
errors. One of the easiest is probably to attempt to delete a 
non-existing queue.

> For the record, the only non-application-initiated shutdowns I have
> caused were by attempting to publish to a non-existent exchange with an
> immediate flag=true.

Publishing to a non-existing exchange will trigger a 404 (not-found) 
channel error, so that should have worked... except publishing with the 
'immediate' flag is unsupported, triggering a 540 (not-implemented) 
connection error instead.

Regards,

Matthias.