community.rabbitmq.rabbitmq – Retrieve messages from an AMQP/AMQPS RabbitMQ queue.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.rabbitmq collection (version 1.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.rabbitmq.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.rabbitmq.rabbitmq.

Synopsis

• This lookup uses a basic get to retrieve all, or a limited number count, messages from a RabbitMQ queue.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

• The python pika package https://pypi.org/project/pika/.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Configuration	Comments
count string			How many messages to collect from the queue. If not set, defaults to retrieving all the messages from the queue.
queue string / required			The queue to get messages from.
url string / required			An URI connection string to connect to the AMQP/AMQPS RabbitMQ server. For more information refer to the URI spec https://www.rabbitmq.com/uri-spec.html.

Notes

Note

• This lookup implements BlockingChannel.basic_get to get messages from a RabbitMQ server.

• After retrieving a message from the server, receipt of the message is acknowledged and the message on the server is deleted.

• Pika is a pure-Python implementation of the AMQP 0-9-1 protocol that tries to stay fairly independent of the underlying network support library.

• More information about pika can be found at https://pika.readthedocs.io/en/stable/.

• This plugin is tested against RabbitMQ. Other AMQP 0.9.1 protocol based servers may work but not tested/guaranteed.

• Assigning the return messages to a variable under vars may result in unexpected results as the lookup is evaluated every time the variable is referenced.

• Currently this plugin only handles text based messages from a queue. Unexpected results may occur when retrieving binary data.

Examples

- name: Get all messages off a queue
  debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.rabbitmq.rabbitmq', url='amqp://guest:[email protected]:5672/%2F', queue='hello') }}"


# If you are intending on using the returned messages as a variable in more than
# one task (eg. debug, template), it is recommended to set_fact.

- name: Get 2 messages off a queue and set a fact for re-use
  set_fact:
    messages: "{{ lookup('community.rabbitmq.rabbiotmq', url='amqp://guest:[email protected]:5672/%2F', queue='hello', count=2) }}"

- name: Dump out contents of the messages
  debug:
    var: messages

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key		Returned	Description
_list list / elements=string		success	A list of dictionaries with keys and value from the queue.
	content_type string	success	The content_type on the message in the queue.
	delivery_mode string	success	The delivery_mode on the message in the queue.
	delivery_tag string	success	The delivery_tag on the message in the queue.
	exchange string	success	The exchange the message came from.
	headers dictionary	success	The headers for the message returned from the queue.
	json dictionary	success	If application/json is specified in content_type, json will be loaded into variables.
	message_count string	success	The message_count for the message on the queue.
	msg string	success	The content of the message.
	redelivered boolean	success	The redelivered flag. True if the message has been delivered before.
	routing_key string	success	The routing_key on the message in the queue.

Authors

• John Imison <@Im0>