docs/tutorial.rst
Tutorial
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If you want to connect to an AMQP broker, you need:
* its address (and port)
* login and password
* name of the virtual host
An idea of a heartbeat interval would be good, but you can do without. Since CoolAMQP will support clusters
in the future, you should define the nodes first. You can do it using _NodeDefinition_.
See NodeDefinition's documentation for alternative ways to do this, but here we will use
the AMQP connection string.
.. autoclass:: coolamqp.objects.NodeDefinition
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.. code-block:: python
from coolamqp.objects import NodeDefinition
node = NodeDefinition('amqp://user@password:host/vhost')
Cluster instances are used to interface with the cluster (or a single broker). It
accepts a list of nodes:
.. code-block:: python
from coolamqp.clustering import Cluster
cluster = Cluster([node], name='My Cluster')
cluster.start(wait=True)
*wait=True* will block until connection is completed. After this, you can use other methods.
*name* is optional. If you specify it, and have setproctitle_ installed, the thread will
receive a provided label, postfixed by **AMQP listener thread**.
.. _setproctitle: https://pypi.org/project/setproctitle/
.. autoclass:: coolamqp.clustering.Cluster
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Publishing and consuming
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Connecting is boring. After we do, we want to do something! Let's try sending a message, and receiving it. To do that,
you must first define a queue, and register a consumer.
.. code-block:: python
from coolamqp.objects import Queue
queue = Queue(u'my_queue', auto_delete=True, exclusive=True)
consumer, consume_confirm = cluster.consume(queue, no_ack=False)
consume_confirm.result() # wait for consuming to start
This will create an auto-delete and exclusive queue. After than, a consumer will be registered for this queue.
_no_ack=False_ will mean that we have to manually confirm messages.
You can specify a callback, that will be called with a message if one's received by this consumer. Since
we did not do that, this will go to a generic queue belonging to _Cluster_.
_consumer_ is a _Consumer_ object. This allows us to do some things with the consumer (such as setting QoS),
but most importantly it allows us to cancel it later. _consume_confirm_ is a _Future_, that will succeed
when AMQP _basic.consume-ok_ is received.
To send a message we need to construct it first, and later publish:
.. code-block:: python
from coolamqp.objects import Message
msg = Message(b'hello world', properties=Message.Properties())
cluster.publish(msg, routing_key=u'my_queue')
.. autoclass:: coolamqp.objects.Message
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This creates a message with no properties, and sends it through default (direct) exchange to our queue.
Note that CoolAMQP simply considers your messages to be bags of bytes + properties. It will not modify them,
nor decode, and will always expect and return bytes.
To actually get our message, we need to start a consumer first. To do that, just invoke:
.. code-block:: python
cons, fut = cluster.consume(Queue('name of the queue'), **kwargs)
Where kwargs are passed directly to Consumer class.
**cons** is a Consumer object, and **fut** is a Future that will happen when listening has been registered on target
server.
.. autoclass:: coolamqp.attaches.Consumer
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