Get the stomp client used internally by Spring Broker Relay - spring

Question

I'm trying to setup a broker relay in Spring with RabbitMQ being the broker. Things work as intended when all events originate from my browser, however, sometimes I have events generated on the server side dynamically. I want to send these too to RabbitMQ to take advantage of things like durable topics or TTL for messages. As far as my understanding goes, using SimpleMessagingTemplate.convertAndSend() and convertAndSendToUser both end up sending the event to the browser instead of broker.
As of now, I'm trying to create a new stomp client to rabbitmq and send events through that. But I can't help feel it to be a bit hacky. Is there a way to get a hold on the stomp client used by Spring and forward my messages easily? Or am I missing something here?
Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Took a while but turns out you don't need to get a hold of the internal stomp client (it's actually an internal TcpClient from Reactor Netty though) or anything like that. Following are the steps you need to do when you want a little bit of customization:
Spring uses #EnableWebSocketMessageBroker to configure the broker or you can extend DelegatingWebSocketMessageBrokerConfiguration. I ended up extending it, it makes little difference though.
In configureMessageBroker(MessageBrokerRegistry registry), use the registry and enable stomp relay and the important part: for the registry in the same method, add ChannelInterceptors. You can get the stomp command and process it as required. The idea is identical to Spring Intercetpors. Add the headers needed inside that.
final StompHeaderAccessor headerAccessor = StompHeaderAccessor.wrap(message);
StompCommand command = headerAccessor.getCommand();
Then finally, recreate the message for sending.
MessageBuilder.createMessage(new byte[0], accessor.getMessageHeaders());
Lastly, you can test if things are actually going to RabbitMQ management console to observe if messages are actually being sent.