amqp-as-promised

AMQP as Promised

Promise wrapper around node-amqp.

Installing

npm install amqp-as-promised

Running

conf = require './myconf.json' # see example conf below
amqpc = (require 'amqp-as-promised') conf.amqp

Config parameters

As of version 0.1.0, the following config parameters are accepted, although we also try to keep backwards compatibility with the older format.

connection

Connection settings accepted by node-amqp. You need to at minimum specify either

• host
• vhost
• login
• password

or

• url.

local

If true, means there will be no AMQP connection. Default: false

rpc

• timeout: timeout in ms for rpc calls. Default: 1000ms

Example config

{
    "connection": {
        "host": "192.168.0.10",
        "vhost": "test",
        "login": "test",
        "password": "supersecret"
    },
	"local": false,
	"rpc": {
	    "timeout": 2000
	}
}

Using amqpc to publish

amqpc.exchange('myexchange').then (ex) ->
    msg = {}
    msg.domain = domain
    ex.publish 'mytopic.foo', msg

Using amqpc to bind

This is shorthand for binding and subscribing.

amqpc.bind 'myexchange', 'myqueue', 'mytopic.#', (msg, headers, del) ->
    console.log 'received message', msg

To bind an anonymous queue.

amqpc.bind 'myexchange', '', 'mytopic.#', (msg, headers, del) ->
    console.log 'received message', msg

Or even shorter

amqpc.bind 'myexchange', 'mytopic.#', (msg, headers, del) ->
    console.log 'received message', msg

To bind the queue to the exchange without subscribing to it, skip the last parameter (the subscription callback). This is essentially the same as queue.bind myexchange, 'mytopic', except the exchange and queue are specified by their names:

amqpc.bind 'myexchange', 'myqueue', 'mytopic.#'

Using amqpc to get an anomymous queue

To create an anomymous queue.

amqpc.queue().then (q) -> console.log 'my queue', q

Using amqpc to do RPC-style calls

to send a message to a service that honors the replyTo/correlationId contract:

amqpc.rpc('myexchange', 'routing.key', msg, [headers], [options]).then (response) ->
    console.log 'received message', response

• headers is an optional parameter holding any custom headers to be passed on the RPC service.
• options supports the following settings
  • timeout - the timeout in ms for this call

Note! In earlier versions the response was an array that included the response headers. As of version 0.1.0, this is no longer the case.

Using amqpc to serve RPC-style calls

To set up a message consumer that automatically honors the replyTo/correlationId contrat:

amqpc.serve 'myexchange', 'mytopic.#', (msg, headers, del) ->
    return { result: 'ok' }

The value returned from the handler will be sent back on the queue specified by the replyTo header, with the correlationId set.

If an exception is thrown by the handler, it will be propagated back to the client as an object with a error property containing the error message.

Shutting down

graceful = (opts) ->
    log.info 'Shutting down'
    amqpc.shutdown().then ->
        process.exit 0

process.on 'SIGINT', graceful
process.on 'SIGTERM', graceful

The amqpc object

amqpc.exchange(name, opts)

A promise for an exchange. If opts is omitted declares an exchange in passive mode.

amqpc.queue(qname, opts)

A promise for a queue. If qname is omitted, "" is used. If opts is omitted a default durable:true and autoDelete:(qname==''). See queue.* below.

amqpc.bind(exname, qname, topic[, callback])

Shorthand for

1. Looking up exchange for exname. Note that passive:true so exchange must be declared already.
2. Looking up queue for qname. See amqpc.queue for queue default opts.
3. Binding queue to topic.
4. Subscribing callback to queue (optional).

amqpc.shutdown()

Will unbind all queues and unsubscribe all callbacks then gracefully shut down the socket connection.

amqpc.local

Read only property that tells whether conf.local was true.

queue.bind(ex, topic)

Binds the queue to the given exchange (object, not name). Will unbind if queue was already bound.

queue.unbind()

Unbinds the queue (if currently bound).

queue.subscribe(opts, callback)

Subscribes the callback to this queue. Will unsubscribe any previous callback. If opts is omitted, defaults to ack: false, prefetchCount: 1

queue.unsubscribe()

Unsubscribes current callback (if any).

queue.shift([reject[, requeue]])

To be used with queue.subscribe({ack:true}, callback). reject rejects the previous message and will requeue it if requeue is true.

queue.name

Read only property with the queue name.

Changelog

0.1.5

Changed

• Now uses node-amqp 0.2.0 under the hood.
• Better handling of reconnects.