rabbitmq_publish – Publish a message to a RabbitMQ queue

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

  • Publish a message on a RabbitMQ queue using a blocking connection.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • pika

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
auto_delete
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Set the queue to auto delete.
body
-
The body of the message.
A body cannot be provided if a src is specified.
content_type
-
Default:
"text/plain"
The content type of the body.
durable
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Set the queue to be durable.
exchange
-
The exchange to publish a message to.
exclusive
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Set the queue to be exclusive.
headers
dictionary
Default:
{}
A dictionary of headers to post with the message.
host
-
The RabbitMQ server hostname or IP.
password
-
The RabbitMQ password.
port
-
The RabbitMQ server port.
proto
-
    Choices:
  • amqps
  • amqp
The protocol to use.
queue
-
The queue to publish a message to. If no queue is specified, RabbitMQ will return a random queue name.
routing_key
-
The routing key.
src
-
A file to upload to the queue. Automatic mime type detection is attempted if content_type is not defined (left as default).
A src cannot be provided if a body is specified.
The filename is added to the headers of the posted message to RabbitMQ. Key being the filename, value is the filename.

aliases: file
url
-
An URL connection string to connect to the RabbitMQ server.
url and host/port/user/pass/vhost are mutually exclusive, use either or but not both.
username
-
The RabbitMQ username.
vhost
-
The virtual host to target.
If default vhost is required, use '%2F'.

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the pika python library https://pika.readthedocs.io/.

  • 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.

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

Examples

- name: Publish a message to a queue with headers
  rabbitmq_publish:
    url: "amqp://guest:[email protected]:5672/%2F"
    queue: 'test'
    body: "Hello world from ansible module rabbitmq_publish"
    content_type: "text/plain"
    headers:
      myHeader: myHeaderValue


- name: Publish a file to a queue
  rabbitmq_publish:
    url: "amqp://guest:[email protected]:5672/%2F"
    queue: 'images'
    file: 'path/to/logo.gif'

- name: RabbitMQ auto generated queue
  rabbitmq_publish:
    url: "amqp://guest:[email protected]:5672/%2F"
    body: "Hello world random queue from ansible module rabbitmq_publish"
    content_type: "text/plain"

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
result
dictionary
 success
Contains the status msg, content type content_type and the queue name queue.

Sample:
'result': { 'content_type': 'text/plain', 'msg': 'Successfully published to queue test', 'queue': 'test' }


Status

Authors

  • John Imison (@Im0)

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