RabbitMQ consumers are not adding up - spring

RabbitMQ consumers are not adding up
I get the exact same issue, I've a RabittMQ listener defined with the following annotation and using Spring AMQP.
#RabbitListener(queues = "#{documentCreationQueue.name}", concurrency = "10-20")
It creates correctly the 10 consumers, but then it never increase to more that 10 even if I sent 20 requests and the 10 first one are in progress.
Did you find a solution to your problem couple of years ago ?
#GaryRussell any suggestions ?
I try to define a SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory with the annotation containerFactory and try multiple settings (prefectchCount, consecutiveActiveTrigger, taskExecutor with a thread pool....) without any success.

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Is it possible to automatically create queues without RabbitAutoConfiguration.class? AMQP

I'm using 2.1.0.RELEASE version of Spring boot with AMQP. Unfortunetly I need to connect to several different RabbitMQ servers. I had to exclude RabbitAutoConfiguration.class besause due to changes in above version of spring it's impossible to start without one of the ConnectionFactory beans as primary, but even if I set one of them as #Primary, obviously it doesn't work, because how would amqp/spring-boot know which queue to create on which server...
so, is it possible to automatically create queues on different servers with auto configuration disabled?
Yes, you need a RabbitAdmin for each connection factory.
By default all components will be declared on all brokers, but you can add conditions. See Conditional Declaration.
By default, all queues, exchanges, and bindings are declared by all RabbitAdmin instances (assuming they have auto-startup="true") in the application context.
#Bean
public Queue queue1() {
Queue queue = new Queue("foo");
queue.setAdminsThatShouldDeclare(admin1());
return queue;
}

Spring KafkaListener: How to know when it's ready

I have a simple Spring Boot application which reads from Kafka and writes to Kafka. I wrote a SpringBootTest using an EmbeddedKafka to test all that.
The main problem is: Sometimes the test fails because the test sends the Kafka message too early. That way, the message is already written to Kafka before the Spring application (or its KafkaListener to be precise) is ready. Since the listener reads from the latest offset (I do not want to change any config for my test - except bootstrap.servers), it will not receive all messages in that test.
Does anyone have an idea how I could know inside the test, that the KafkaListener is ready to receive messages?
Only way I could think of is waiting until /health comes available but I have no idea whether I can be sure that this implies the KafkaListener to be ready at all.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Best regards.
If you have a KafkaMessageListenerContainer instance, then it is very easy to use org.springframework.kafka.test.utils.ContainerTestUtils.waitForAssignment(Object container, int partitions).
https://docs.spring.io/spring-kafka/api/org/springframework/kafka/test/utils/ContainerTestUtils.html
e.g. calling ContainerTestUtils.waitForAssignment(container, 1); in your Test setup will block until the container has gotten 1 partition assigned.
So, I just read about #PostConstruct and it turns out that you can easily use this also within the test:
#PostConstruct
public void checkApplicationReady() {
applicationReady = true;
}
Now I added an #Before method to wait until that flag is set to true.
So far this seems to work very nicely!

Spring Kafka disabling listening from a list of topics

We use spring kafka configuration to receive messages from upstream systems.
We have java configuration for topic configuration
#Bean(id="firstcontainer")
protected ConcurrentMessageListenerContainer createContainerInstance(...) {
//topics addition
}
#Bean(id="secondcontainer")
protected ConcurrentMessageListenerContainer createContainerInstance(...) {
//topics addition
}
#KafkaListener(firstcontainer)
public void listenerFirst(){
}
#KafkaListener(secondcontainer)
public void listenerSecond(){
}
This code works perfectly fine as we have seperate containerfactory.
Now we have requirement to spin up mulitple instances of this application where one instance will listen to firstContainer and secondContainer will be disabled
And For second instance, it will only enable secondContainer and disable firstContainer.
Can someone help to understand if it is possible to disable listening from a topic(list of topics)?
Your two instances (or many) can be identical and accept topic list from the external configuration. The #KafkaListener allows to do that.
There is Spring #Profile functionality, if you still want to keep several beans in your application. This way you should sever your #KafkaListener method to different classes and mark their component with an appropriate #Profile, which, again, can be activated externally.
The Apache Kafka has a concept as Consumer Group meaning that all consumers in the same group are joining to the broker, but only one of them will consume records from single partition in the topic. This way independently of the number of instances of your application you still will have a consistency because there is nothing to worry about duplicates in case of proper Kafka groups usage.

Spring Integration - Load Balance across multiple TCP outbound gateways

I have a (legacy) TCP service that has multiple processes. Each process runs on the same host, but on a different port. The service is single threaded, so the way to increase throughput is to round-robin each request across each of the ports.
I am providing an AMQP exposure to this legacy application. Its very simple - take a string off the AMQP queue, pass it to the application, and return the response string to the AMQP reply queue.
This works great on a single port. However, i'd like to fan out the requests across all the ports.
Spring Integration seems to only provide AbstractClientConnectionFactory implementations that either connect directly to a single host/port (TcpNetClientConnectionFactory) or maintain a pool of connections to a single host/port (CachingClientConnectionFactory). There arent any that pool connections between a single host and multiple ports.
I have attempted to write my own AbstractClientConnectionFactory that maintains a pool of AbstractClientConnectionFactory objects and round-robins between them. However, I have struck several issues to do with handing the TCP connections when the target service goes away or the network is interrupted that I have not been able to solve.
There is also the approach taken by this question: Spring Integration 4 - configuring a LoadBalancingStrategy in Java DSL but the solution to that was to hardcode the number of endpoints. In my case, the number of endpoints is only known at runtime and is a user-configurable setting.
So, basically I need to create a TcpOutboundGateway per port dynamically at runtime and somehow register it in my IntegrationFlow. I have attempted the following:
#Bean
public IntegrationFlow xmlQueryWorkerIntegrationFlow() {
SimpleMessageListenerContainer inboundQueue = getMessageListenerContainer();
DirectChannel rabbitReplyChannel = MessageChannels.direct().get();
IntegrationFlowBuilder builder = IntegrationFlows
.from(Amqp.inboundGateway(inboundQueue)
.replyChannel(rabbitReplyChannel))
/* SOMEHOW DO THE ROUND ROBIN HERE */
//I have tried:
.channel(handlerChannel()) //doesnt work, the gateways dont get started and the message doesnt get sent to the gateway
//and I have also tried:
.handle(gateway1)
.handle(gateway2) //doesnt work, it chains the handlers instead of round-robining between them
//
.transform(new ObjectToStringTransformer())
.channel(rabbitReplyChannel);
return builder.get();
}
#Bean
//my attempt at dynamically adding handlers to the same channel and load balancing between them
public DirectChannel handlerChannel() {
DirectChannel channel = MessageChannels.direct().loadBalancer(new RoundRobinLoadBalancingStrategy()).get();
for (AbstractClientConnectionFactory factory : generateConnections()) {
channel.subscribe(generateTcpOutboundGateway(factory));
}
return channel;
}
Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?
See the dynamic ftp sample - in essence each outbound gateway goes in its own application context and the dynamic router routes to the appropriate channel (for which the outbound adapter is created on demand if necessary).
Although the sample uses XML, you can do the same thing with java configuration, or even with the Java DSL.
See my answer to a similar question for multiple IMAP mail adapters using Java configuration and then a follow-up question.

Prevent use of CachingConnectionFactory with DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory

I am working on a brand new project in which I need to have listeners that will consume messages from several queues (no need to have producer for now).
Starting from scratch, I am using the last Spring JMS version (4.1.2).
Here is an extract of my configuration file:
<bean id="cachedConnectionFactory"
class="org.springframework.jms.connection.CachingConnectionFactory"
p:targetConnectionFactory-ref="jmsConnectionFactory"
p:sessionCacheSize="3" />
<bean id="jmsListenerContainerFactory"
class="org.springframework.jms.config.DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory"
p:connectionFactory-ref="cachedConnectionFactory"
p:destinationResolver-ref="jndiDestinationResolver"
p:concurrency="3-5"
p:receiveTimeout="5000" />
But I think I may be wrong since DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory will build regular DefaultMessageListenerContainerS. And, as stated in the doc, CachingConnectionFactory should not be used with a message listener container...
Even if I am using the new Spring 4.1 DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory class the answer from post is still valid (cacheConsumers = true can be an issue + don't need to cache sessions for listener containers because the sessions are long lived) , right?
Instead of using the CachingConnectionFactory, I should use the SingleConnectionFactory (and not directly the broker implementation one)?
If the SingleConnectionFactory class should indeed be used, is the "reconnectOnException" property should be set to true (as it is done in the CachingConnectionFactory) or does the new "setBackOff" method (from DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactory) deals with the same kind of issues?
Thanks for any tips
Correct.
There's not really much benefit in using a SingleConnectionFactory unless you want to share a single connection across multiple containers; the DMLC will use a single connection from the vendor factory by default for all consumer threads (cacheLevel >= CACHE_CONNECTION), unless a TransactionManager is configured.
The container(s) will handle reconnection - even before the 'new' backOff property - backOff just adds more sophistication to the reconnection algorithm - it used to just retry every n seconds (5 by default).
As stated in the answer you cited, it's ok to use a CCF as long as you disable consumer caching.
Correction: Yes, when using the SingleConnectionFactory, you do need to set reconnectOnException to true in order for the container to properly recover its connection. Otherwise, it simply hands out the stale connection.

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