collective.zamqp acts as a Zope Server by co-opting Zope's asyncore mainloop (using asyncore-supporting AMQP-library pika), and injecting consumed messages as requests to be handled by ZPublisher (exactly like Zope ClockServer).

Therefore AMQP-messages are handled (by default) in a similar environment to regular HTTP-requests: ZCA-hooks, events and everything else behaving normally.

This package is an almost complete rewrite of affinitic.zamqp, but preserves its ideas on how to setup AMQP-messaging by configuring only producers and consumers.

TODO

• rewrite documentation to reflect the new design
• update affinitic.zamqp's tests for the new design

While we are still documenting and testing collective.zamqp, you may want to take a look at collective.zamqpdemo for an example of use.

A common setup includes a producer and a worker instance which are both connected to the same rabbitmq server.

Both instances can be easily configured using buildout:

[buildout]
parts =
    instance
    worker

...

[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
http-address = 8080
eggs =
    ...
    collective.zamqp

...
zope-conf-additional =
    %import collective.zamqp
    <amqp-broker-connection>
        connection_id   superuser
        hostname        my.rabbithostname.com
        port            5672
        username        guest
        password        guest
        heartbeat       120
        keepalive       60
    </amqp-broker-connection>

[worker]
<= instance
http-address = 8081
zserver-threads = 1
environment-vars =
    ZAMQP_LOGLEVEL INFO
zope-conf-additional =
    ${instance:zope-conf-additional}
    <amqp-consuming-server>
        connection_id   superuser
        site_id         Plone
        user_id         admin
    </amqp-consuming-server>

• amqp-broker-connection

  connection_id

  Connection id, which is the registered name of the created global BrokerConnection-utility.

  hostname (optional)

  Hostname or IP Address of RabbitMQ server to connect to, default to localhost.

  port (optional)

  TCP port of RabbitMQ server to connect to, defaults to 5672.

  virtual_host (optional)

  RabbitMQ virtual host to use, defaults to /.

  username (optional)

  Plain text username for RabbitMQ connection, defaults to guest.

  password (optional)

  Plain text password for RabbitMQ connection, defaults to guest.

  heartbeat (optional)

  AMQP heartbeat interval in seconds, defaults to 0 to disable heartbeat.

  keepalive (optional)

  Register producer, consumer, view and clock-server with the given integer timeout in seconds to keep the connection alive. Defaults 0.

  prefetch_count (optional)

  AMQP channel prefetch count limit, defaults to 0 for no limit.

• amqp-consuming-server

  connection_id

  The name of a global utility providing configured IBrokerConnection. A consuming server will serve consumers registered for its connection id only.

  scheme (optional)

  Configure URL schema for virtual rewriting using VirtualHostMonster, default is http. Will be ignored if no hostname is given.

  hostname (optional)

  Hostname which will be passed into fake request. When calling object.absolute_url() in a consuming server you'll receive this hostname. URL will be rewritten using VirtualHostMonster using following scheme:

  /VirtualHostBase/{scheme}/{hostname}:{port}/{site_id}/VirtualHostRoot/...

  If a hostname is configured, VirtualHostMonster will be invoked, socket.gethostname() will be used else.

  port (optional)

  Configure port for virtual rewriting using VirtualHostMonster, default is 80. Will be ignored if no hostname is given.

  use_vhm (optional)

  Create VirtualHostMonster-wrapped method calls when hostname is set. VHM is used to tell portal the configured real public hostname and to hide portal's id from path. Defaults to on.

  vhm_method_prefix (optional)

  Explicitly set the VHM method prefix for AMQP-based requests. Most typical options may look like:

  • /VirtualHostBase/https/example.com:443/Plone
  • /VirtualHostBase/https/example.com:443/Plone/VirtualHostRoot
  • /VirtualHostBase/https/example.com:443/Plone/VirtualHostRoot/_vh_subsite

  Note: This overrides the default implicit VHM-support by setting scheme, hostname, port and use_vhm, but will still require use_vhm enabled to be active. Empty value fallbacks to the old default use_vhm-behavior.

  site_id

  The id of a site, which should be the context when consuming the AMQP messages, which the consumers of a consuming server consume. If a hostname is given, this will be used for VirtualHostMonster rewrites.

  user_id (optional)

  Optional user id of the Plone user, whose privileges are used to consume the messages. By default, the messages are consumed as Anonymous User calling trusted filesystem code.

You may want to in/decrease collective.zamqp loglevel which can easily be done by passing an environment variable into worker instance as seen in buildout example above:

[worker]
...
environment-vars =
    ZAMQP_LOGLEVEL INFO
...

Valid parameters are:

• DEBUG
• INFO