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web-nomad
web-nomad

Reputation: 6003

Implementing a job queue with rabbitmq

I have built a rabbitmq wrapper which publishes messages to consumers and this is working well.

Can I also build a work queue (like gearman) in rabbitmq which can distribute long running tasks to consumers and the consumers, in turn, notify the publisher with the results.

I guess this would require the publisher to act as a consumer as well which I am not sure how to implement. (Please correct me if I am wrong).

Or, is rabbitmq just not the tool for such case.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 789

Answers (1)

Nicolas Labrot
Nicolas Labrot

Reputation: 4096

RabbitMQ supports this type of pattern. Have a look at the RPC tutorial for a bootstrap of how to implement this pattern.

It can be implemented in different way depending of your needs:

  • direct reply queue, queue will be created and used only for the reply associated to the request
  • static reply queue which will contain all the replies

It usually implies a correlation id to correlate request with the reply, or it can be stateless if the reply contains all the necessary information.

It really depends on your needs.

Upvotes: 2

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