[rabbitmq-discuss] Plugin startup behavior issue

[Simon MacMullen]

On 18/06/2014 2:36AM, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> I ran into one other issue on startup, having to do with
> rabbit_direct_client being available. The solution I came up with was to
> use timers to defer the commands until rabbit_direct_client_sup exists.
> Does this seem like a sane approach?

Yeah, I guess so. federation has to do something similar - in theory you 
could delay the worker startup but inherently the direct client doesn't 
want to start until all exchanges / queues are available, so your 
exchange requiring it implies a circular dependency.

In federation we queue up bind / unbind commands. I am not sure your 
approach will maintain the ordering correctly. But ordering of bindings 
is a big deal for federation; it might not be for you.

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, Pivotal