Feature: push messages directly to a queue about rabtap HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi,

as far as I know it's not possible to directly publish/send to a queue. The underlying API rabtap uses (https://github.com/streadway/amqp) does also not provide such an interface. The official RabbitMQ documentation states:

The core idea in the messaging model in RabbitMQ is that the producer never sends any messages directly to a queue. Actually, quite often the producer doesn't even know if a message will be delivered to any queue at all.

(https://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-three-python.html)

However since every queue is automatically bound to the so called default exchange (has the name ""), you can create a queue and publish your message to the default exchange with the queue's name as the routing key.

Example:

First terminal:

$ rabtap queue create MYQUEUE
$ rabtap sub MYQUEUE

Second terminal:

$  echo "HELLO" | rabtap pub "" --routingkey MYQUEUE

After the last command, you should see the HELLO message being printed in the first terminal.

To sum it up: Feature can not be implemented, but can be substituted by the pub command shown above.

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Thanks for your feedback and valuable advice! Silly of me not to check whether this was even supported by the broker in the first place.

The use case I had was a queue which is bound to multiple exchanges, so I can sub from the queue but can't pub the messages back to the queue. Of course, an exchange can also be bound to multiple exchanges, so I can simply create a single exchange in between and publish directly back to it. Works like a charm.

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