How to consume messages selectively from Spring AMQP? - rabbitmq

In the queue I have pushed 10K objects. Timestamp is one of the attribute in object. So, how can I write a consumer code using spring amqp?
can anyone help me on this.

AMQP, unlike JMS, has no notion of message selection for consumers. One solution is to use a topic exchange and set the routing key - let's say consumer 1 binds his queue to the exchange with foo.bar a second one binds with foo.baz; and a third binds with foo.*. The third will get all messages (with routing keys starting with foo.); the others will only get messages with their respective keys.
A direct exchange could also be used; it requires a complete match on the routing key.
You should probably work through all the RabbitMQ tutorials to understand the different exchange types before asking more questions here.

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When to use Which Exchange in RabbitMQ?

I have read so many articles regarding exchanges in RabbitMQ.
But I couldn't find any useful article which explains about usecases of each exchange.
all they are saying is
Direct Exchange - Binding key and routing key should be same.
Topic Exchange - Routing key should match the routing pattern of the binding key.
Fanout Exchange - All the queues which are bounds to that particular exchange will get the message.
Header Exchange - headers should match the key.
can any one explain each exchange and usecases of it in detail?
Well, the choice of exchange type to use is pretty much driven by your use case, it your responsibility to choose the exchange type that suits you best.
Here are some examples:
Lets say you want a broadcast (you have multiple instances of the applications that are supposed to receive the message). For example, something happens in the system (resource becomes available, cache should be invalidated, you name it) and you want that all instances will know it. Then your first bet will be using fanout exchange.
Another example. You want to unicast: send a message and you have multiple consumers, but you want that only one consumer will get a message and will attempt to process it. In this case, you can't use fan-out exchange and you'll opt for other types of exchange (like direct exchange for example).
All-in-all I believe you should be interested to read this article that describes various concepts of fairly rich amqp protocol and provides use case examples for different types of exchanges.

How to handle dynamic routing logic for consumers in rabbitmq?

I have a use-case where the producers publish some events and the consumers are initially bound to the producers' exchanges. Over time, certain conditions change and the binding or the routing keys (for consumers) needs to be updated, since their subscription interests have changed. Can I handle this dynamic routing scenario in RabbitMQ?
Yes, this is fairly straightforward.
RabbitMQ provides the Queue.Bind and Queue.Unbind methods. When your consumers wish to receive information about a particular topic, they would Bind the queue to that topic via a topic exchange. When they are no longer interested in a particular topic, the binding would be removed for that topic using Unbind.

In RabbitMQ which is more expensive, multiple queues per exchange, or multiple exchanges and less queues per each?

So we decided to go with RabbitMQ as a message/event bus in our migration to micro-services architecture, but we couldn't find a definite answer on what is the best way of putting our queues, we have two options to go with:
One main exchange which will be a Fanout exchange, which in turn will fan messages out to a main queue for logging and other purposes and another sub exchange which will be a topic exchange and route the messages to each desired queue using the message routing key. We expect the number of queues behind the sub-exchange to be some how a large number. This can be explained by this graph:
One main exchange, which will be a Topic exchange, with still one main queue bound to that exchange using "#" routing key. That main exchange will also handles main routing to other sub exchanges, so routing keys might be "agreements.#", "assignments.#", "messages.#", which are then used to bind multiple topic sub-exchanges, each will handle sub routing, so one sub exchange might be handling all "assignments" and queues bound to that exchange could be bound by routing keys like "assignments.accepted", "assignments.deleted"...In this scenario, we feel like the huge number of queues will be less per exchange, they will be somehow distributed between exchanges.
So, which of these scenarios could be the best approach? Faster on RabbitMQ, less overhead.
Taking in mind, all queues, exchanges and bindings will be done on the fly from the service which will be either publishing or subscribing.
You can find some explanation in this topic: RabbitMQ Topic exchanges: 1 Exchange vs Many Exchanges
I am using RabbitMQ in a very similar way that you showed in the case 2, as I found the same benefits as described in this article: https://skillachie.com/2014/06/27/rabbitmq-exchange-to-exchange-bindings-ampq/
Exchange-to-exchange bindings are much more flexible in terms of the topology that you can design, promotes decoupling & reduce binding churn
Exchange-to-exchange bindings are said to be very light weight and as a result help to increase performance *
Based in my own experience with exchange-to-exchange, the case 2 is great and it will allows to create/change messages flow topologies in a very fast way.
I'm going to first re-summarize what I think is your question, since I'm sure it's buried somewhere in your post.
It is desirable to have a tracer/logging queue, in addition to a series of work-specific queues for actual message processing. What exchange topology is best for this scenario?
First off, neither option makes much sense given your application. Option 1 will create an exchange that will publish a message to every queue bound to it, regardless. This is clearly not what you want. Option 2 will give you a rather complex routing topology for which the benefit is unclear, and the drawback is painful maintenance and a steep learning curve. (Just because you can do something does not mean you should do it.)
What should be done?
It is important to remember that in RabbitMQ, it is the queues which consume the resources of the broker. Exchanges merely connect queues with publishers. The exchange is a means to an end, while the queue is the end itself.
What instead I think you should do is set up a single topic exchange. Bind your tracing queue to routing key # so that you receive all messages. Then, bind your work queues appropriately so that they receive only the messages that need to flow into them. For example, it is common to route messages by message type, where each queue holds exactly one type of message. This is both simple and effective.
The advantage of a single topic exchange is that you get the benefits of both a Direct Exchange and a Fanout Exchange depending on the binding key used. Further, configuration changes are easy to achieve and can often be done without disrupting any system processing at all (let's say that you want to stop tracing certain messages - this can be done with ease using a topic exchange, assuming your routing keys are rational).
Exchange-to-exchange bindings is semantically identical to exchange-to-queue bindings.
https://www.rabbitmq.com/e2e.html

Find the exchange name through which message has been consumed

I have a code which has both consumer and producer. I want to differentiate or find the exact exchange name through which the consumer has consumed the message. For example, I have almost 5 exchanges and I want to know through which exchange out of that 5 the consumer has received it's message. How can this be achieved?
I have done lot of homework but couldn't find a solution.
Messages are consumed from queues, not exchanges.
The way to figure out original exchange that message was published to is to use Firehose Tracer plugin (maybe even with rabbitmq-tracing
plugin alongside).
Alternatively, you may figure out original exchange by comparing queues bindings with message routing key. This usually work well in most cases, unless you have really wired publishers and routing logic.
P.S.: finally, if you have at least read access to publishers code you can figure out where each messages goes from.

Rabbitmq queue sharding

I have to implement this scenario:
An external application publish message to rabbitmq.
This message has a client_id property. We can place this id to routing key or message header or some other property.
I have to implement sharding in a exchange routng logic - the message should be delivered to specific queue based on the client_id range.
Is it possible to implement in a standard exchanges?
If not what exchange should I take as the base?
How to dynamicly change client_id ranges?
Take a look at the rabbitmq plugin. It's included in the RabbitMQ distribution from v3.6.0 onwards.
Just have your producer put enough info into the routing key that causes the message to go into the right queue on the other side of the Exchange.
So for example, create two queues called 1 and 2 and bind them with routing keys matching the names. Then have your producer decide which routing key to use when producing the event message. Customers with names starting with letters a-m go to 1, n-z go to 2, you get the idea. It pushes the sharding to the producer but that might be OK for your application.
AMQP doesn't have any explicit implementation of sharding, but its architecture should help you to do that.
Spreading messages to several queues is just a rabbitmq challenge (and part of amqp specification), and with routing, way you can attach hetereogeneous consumers to handle specific messages routed via the same exchange. Therefore, producer should push a specific key to be consumed by specific queue/consumer...
You can decide to make a static sharding, perhaps you have 10 queues with one consumer per queue. You could implement a consistent hashing function such that key is CLIENT_ID % 10.
Another ways and none static solutions could be propoused, and you can try to over this architecture.