#!/usr/bin/env python """ direct_consumer.py This AMQP client reads messages from a message queue named "message_queue". """ import qpid import sys from qpid.client import Client from qpid.content import Content from qpid.queue import Empty #----- Initialization -------------------------------------- # Set parameters for login host=len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[1] or "127.0.0.1" port=len(sys.argv) > 2 and int(sys.argv[2]) or 5672 amqp_spec="/usr/share/amqp/amqp.0-10-preview.xml" user="guest" password="guest" # Create a client and log in to it. client = Client(host, port, qpid.spec.load(amqp_spec)) client.start({"LOGIN": user, "PASSWORD": password}) session = client.session() session.session_open() #----- Read from queue -------------------------------------------- # Now let's create a local client queue and tell it to read # incoming messages. # The consumer tag identifies the client-side queue. consumer_tag = "consumer1" queue = client.queue(consumer_tag) # Call message_consume() to tell the broker to deliver messages # from the AMQP queue to this local client queue. The broker will # start delivering messages as soon as message_consume() is called. session.message_subscribe(queue="message_queue", destination=consumer_tag) session.message_flow(consumer_tag, 0, 0xFFFFFFFF) # Kill these? session.message_flow(consumer_tag, 1, 0xFFFFFFFF) # Kill these? # Initialize 'final' and 'content', variables used to identify the last message. final = "That's all, folks!" # In a message body, signals the last message content = "" # Content of the last message read message = None while content != final: message = queue.get(timeout=10) content = message.content.body print content # Messages are not removed from the queue until they are # acknowledged. Using cumulative=True, all messages from the session # up to and including the one identified by the delivery tag are # acknowledged. This is more efficient, because there are fewer # network round-trips. message.complete(cumulative=True) #----- Cleanup ------------------------------------------------ # Clean up before exiting so there are no open threads. # session.session_close()