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AMQP driver for Async Agent
The AMQP driver for Async agents allows you to have KrakenD consuming AMQP queues autonomously. Routines listening to AMQP queues will react by themselves to new events and push data to your backends.
This driver is different from the AMQP backend consumer. As opposed to endpoints, async agents do not require users to request something to trigger an action. Instead, the agents connect to the queue and fire an action when an event is delivered.
Async/AMQP Driver Configuration
The AMQP driver has to be placed inside the extra_config of the async component and allows you connect to an AMQP queue (e.g: RabbitMQ). The settings are as follows:
{
"async/amqp": {
"host": "amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672/",
"name": "krakend",
"exchange": "foo",
"durable": true,
"delete": false,
"exclusive": false,
"no_wait": true,
"prefetch_count": 5,
"auto_ack": false,
"no_local": true
}
}
Fields of Async AMQP Driver
* required fields
auto_ackboolean- When KrakenD retrieves the messages, regardless of the success or failure of the operation, it marks them as ACK. Defaults to false.Defaults to
false deleteboolean- false is recommended to avoid deletions when the consumer is disconnected.Defaults to
false durableboolean- Durable queues will survive server restarts and remain when there are no remaining consumers or bindings. Most of the times
trueis recommended, but depends on the use case.Defaults tofalse exchange* string- The entity name where messages are retrieved (it will be created, or it must have a topic type if already exists).Example:
"some-exchange" exclusiveboolean- true if only this consumer can access the queue.Defaults to
false host* string- The connection string, ends in slash. E.g:
amqp://user:password@host:5672/. name* string- The queue name.
no_localboolean- The no_local flag is not supported by RabbitMQ.
no_waitboolean- When true, do not wait for the server to confirm the request and immediately begin deliveries. If it is not possible to consume, a channel exception will be raised and the channel will be closed.
prefetch_countinteger- The number of messages you want to prefetch prior to consume them.Defaults to
10 prefetch_sizeinteger- The number of bytes you want to use to prefetch messages.Defaults to
0
