How to create instance specific message queues in springboot rest api - spring-boot

Question

I have a number of microservices, each running in its own container in a load balanced environment. I have a need for each instance of these microservices to create a rabbitmq queue when it starts up and delete it when it stops. I have currently defined the following property in my application properties file:
config_queue: config_${PID}
My message queue listener looks like this:
public class ConfigListener {
Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ConfigListener.class);
// https://www.programcreek.com/java-api-examples/index.php?api=org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.annotation.RabbitListener
#RabbitListener(bindings = #QueueBinding(
value = #Queue(value = "${config_queue}",
autoDelete = "true"),
exchange = #Exchange(value = AppConstants.TOPIC_CONFIGURATION,
type= ExchangeTypes.FANOUT)
))
public void configChanged(String message){
... application logic
}
}
All this works great when I run the microservice. A queue with prefix config and process id gets created and is auto deleted when I stop the service.
However, when I run this service and others in their individual docker containers, all services have the same PID and that is 1.
Does anybody have any idea how I can create specify a queue that is unique to that instance.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Use an AnonymousQueue instead:
#SpringBootApplication
public class So72030217Application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(So72030217Application.class, args);
}
#RabbitListener(queues = "#{configQueue.name}")
public void listen(String in) {
System.out.println(in);
}
}
#Configuration
class Config {
#Bean
FanoutExchange fanout() {
return new FanoutExchange("config");
}
#Bean
Queue configQueue() {
return new AnonymousQueue(new Base64UrlNamingStrategy("config_"));
}
#Bean
Binding binding() {
return BindingBuilder.bind(configQueue()).to(fanout());
}
}
AnonymousQueues are auto-delete and use a Base64 encoded UUID in the name.