RabbitHandler to create consumer and retry on Fatal Exception in Spring for queue on listening to RabbitMQ - spring-boot

Question

I am using Spring AMQP RabbitHandler and have written the following code:
#RabbitListener(queues = "#{testQueue.name}")
public class Tut4Receiver {
#RabbitHandler
public void receiveMessage(String message){
System.out.println("Message received "+message);
}
}
The Queue is defined like:-
#Bean
public Queue testQueue() {
return new AnonymousQueue();
}
I am using separate code to initialize the Connection Factory.
My question is if RabbitMQ is down for some time, it keeps on retrying to create a consumer but only if it receives a ConnectionRefused error. But suppose the user does not exist in RabbitMQ and there is a gap in which a new user will be created, then it receives a fatal error from RabbitMQ and it never retries due to which the result is auto delete queue would be created on RabbitMQ without any consumers.
Stack Trace:
SimpleMessageListenerContainer] [SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-11] [|] [|||] Consumer received fatal exception on startup
org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.exception.FatalListenerStartupException: Authentication failure
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.BlockingQueueConsumer.start(BlockingQueueConsumer.java:476)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageProcessingConsumer.run(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1280)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.springframework.amqp.AmqpAuthenticationException: com.rabbitmq.client.AuthenticationFailureException: ACCESS_REFUSED - Login was refused using authentication mechanism PLAIN. For details see the broker logfile.
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.support.RabbitExceptionTranslator.convertRabbitAccessException(RabbitExceptionTranslator.java:65)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.AbstractConnectionFactory.createBareConnection(AbstractConnectionFactory.java:309)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.CachingConnectionFactory.createConnection(CachingConnectionFactory.java:547)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.ConnectionFactoryUtils$1.createConnection(ConnectionFactoryUtils.java:90)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.ConnectionFactoryUtils.doGetTransactionalResourceHolder(ConnectionFactoryUtils.java:140)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.ConnectionFactoryUtils.getTransactionalResourceHolder(ConnectionFactoryUtils.java:76)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.BlockingQueueConsumer.start(BlockingQueueConsumer.java:472)
... 2 common frames omitted
Caused by: com.rabbitmq.client.AuthenticationFailureException: ACCESS_REFUSED - Login was refused using authentication mechanism PLAIN. For details see the broker logfile.
at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.start(AMQConnection.java:339)
at com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory.newConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:813)
at com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory.newConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:767)
at com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory.newConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:887)
at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.connection.AbstractConnectionFactory.createBareConnection(AbstractConnectionFactory.java:300)
SimpleMessageListenerContainer] [SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-11] [|] [|||] Stopping container from aborted consumer
[|] [|||] Waiting for workers to finish.
[|] [|||] Successfully waited for workers to finish.
Any way to retry even on fatal exceptions like when the user does not exist?

Answer 1

Authentication failures are considered fatal by default and not retried.
You can override this behavior by setting a property on the listener container (possibleAuthenticationFailureFatal). The property is not available as a boot property so you have to override boot's container factory...
#Bean(name = "rabbitListenerContainerFactory")
public SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory simpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory(
SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer configurer, ConnectionFactory connectionFactory) {
SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory factory = new SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory();
configurer.configure(factory, connectionFactory);
factory.setContainerConfigurer(smlc -> smlc.setPossibleAuthenticationFailureFatal(false));
return factory;
}