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Multiple Broker (or Cluster) Support

Version 2.3 added more convenience when communicating between a single application and multiple brokers or broker clusters. The main benefit, on the consumer side, is that the infrastructure can automatically associate auto-declared queues with the appropriate broker.

This is best illustrated with an example:

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = RabbitAutoConfiguration.class)
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }

    @Bean
    CachingConnectionFactory cf1() {
        return new CachingConnectionFactory("localhost");
    }

    @Bean
    CachingConnectionFactory cf2() {
        return new CachingConnectionFactory("otherHost");
    }

    @Bean
    CachingConnectionFactory cf3() {
        return new CachingConnectionFactory("thirdHost");
    }

    @Bean
    SimpleRoutingConnectionFactory rcf(CachingConnectionFactory cf1,
            CachingConnectionFactory cf2, CachingConnectionFactory cf3) {

        SimpleRoutingConnectionFactory rcf = new SimpleRoutingConnectionFactory();
        rcf.setDefaultTargetConnectionFactory(cf1);
        rcf.setTargetConnectionFactories(Map.of("one", cf1, "two", cf2, "three", cf3));
        return rcf;
    }

    @Bean("factory1-admin")
    RabbitAdmin admin1(CachingConnectionFactory cf1) {
        return new RabbitAdmin(cf1);
    }

    @Bean("factory2-admin")
    RabbitAdmin admin2(CachingConnectionFactory cf2) {
        return new RabbitAdmin(cf2);
    }

    @Bean("factory3-admin")
    RabbitAdmin admin3(CachingConnectionFactory cf3) {
        return new RabbitAdmin(cf3);
    }

    @Bean
    public RabbitListenerEndpointRegistry rabbitListenerEndpointRegistry() {
        return new RabbitListenerEndpointRegistry();
    }

    @Bean
    public RabbitListenerAnnotationBeanPostProcessor postProcessor(RabbitListenerEndpointRegistry registry) {
        MultiRabbitListenerAnnotationBeanPostProcessor postProcessor
                = new MultiRabbitListenerAnnotationBeanPostProcessor();
        postProcessor.setEndpointRegistry(registry);
        postProcessor.setContainerFactoryBeanName("defaultContainerFactory");
        return postProcessor;
    }

    @Bean
    public SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory factory1(CachingConnectionFactory cf1) {
        SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory factory = new SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory();
        factory.setConnectionFactory(cf1);
        return factory;
    }

    @Bean
    public SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory factory2(CachingConnectionFactory cf2) {
        SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory factory = new SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory();
        factory.setConnectionFactory(cf2);
        return factory;
    }

    @Bean
    public SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory factory3(CachingConnectionFactory cf3) {
        SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory factory = new SimpleRabbitListenerContainerFactory();
        factory.setConnectionFactory(cf3);
        return factory;
    }

    @Bean
    RabbitTemplate template(SimpleRoutingConnectionFactory rcf) {
        return new RabbitTemplate(rcf);
    }

    @Bean
    ConnectionFactoryContextWrapper wrapper(SimpleRoutingConnectionFactory rcf) {
        return new ConnectionFactoryContextWrapper(rcf);
    }

}

@Component
class Listeners {

    @RabbitListener(queuesToDeclare = @Queue("q1"), containerFactory = "factory1")
    public void listen1(String in) {

    }

    @RabbitListener(queuesToDeclare = @Queue("q2"), containerFactory = "factory2")
    public void listen2(String in) {

    }

    @RabbitListener(queuesToDeclare = @Queue("q3"), containerFactory = "factory3")
    public void listen3(String in) {

    }

}

As you can see, we have declared 3 sets of infrastructure (connection factories, admins, container factories). As discussed earlier, @RabbitListener can define which container factory to use; in this case, they also use queuesToDeclare which causes the queue(s) to be declared on the broker, if it doesn’t exist. By naming the RabbitAdmin beans with the convention <container-factory-name>-admin, the infrastructure is able to determine which admin should declare the queue. This will also work with bindings = @QueueBinding(…) whereby the exchange and binding will also be declared. It will NOT work with queues, since that expects the queue(s) to already exist.

On the producer side, a convenient ConnectionFactoryContextWrapper class is provided, to make using the RoutingConnectionFactory (see Routing Connection Factory) simpler.

As you can see above, a SimpleRoutingConnectionFactory bean has been added with routing keys one, two and three. There is also a RabbitTemplate that uses that factory. Here is an example of using that template with the wrapper to route to one of the broker clusters.

@Bean
public ApplicationRunner runner(RabbitTemplate template, ConnectionFactoryContextWrapper wrapper) {
    return args -> {
        wrapper.run("one", () -> template.convertAndSend("q1", "toCluster1"));
        wrapper.run("two", () -> template.convertAndSend("q2", "toCluster2"));
        wrapper.run("three", () -> template.convertAndSend("q3", "toCluster3"));
    };
}