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Asynchronous Outbound Gateway

The gateway discussed in the previous section is synchronous, in that the sending thread is suspended until a reply is received (or a timeout occurs). Spring Integration version 4.3 added an asynchronous gateway, which uses the AsyncRabbitTemplate from Spring AMQP. When a message is sent, the thread returns immediately after the send operation completes, and, when the message is received, the reply is sent on the template’s listener container thread. This can be useful when the gateway is invoked on a poller thread. The thread is released and is available for other tasks in the framework.

The following listing shows the possible configuration options for an AMQP asynchronous outbound gateway:

Java DSL
Java
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@Configuration
public class AmqpAsyncApplication {

    @Bean
    public IntegrationFlow asyncAmqpOutbound(AsyncRabbitTemplate asyncRabbitTemplate) {
        return f -> f
                .handle(Amqp.asyncOutboundGateway(asyncRabbitTemplate)
                        .routingKey("queue1")); // default exchange - route to queue 'queue1'
    }

    @MessagingGateway(defaultRequestChannel = "asyncAmqpOutbound.input")
    public interface MyGateway {

        String sendToRabbit(String data);

    }

}

@Configuration
public class AmqpAsyncConfig {

    @Bean
    @ServiceActivator(inputChannel = "amqpOutboundChannel")
    public AsyncAmqpOutboundGateway amqpOutbound(AsyncRabbitTemplate asyncTemplate) {
        AsyncAmqpOutboundGateway outbound = new AsyncAmqpOutboundGateway(asyncTemplate);
        outbound.setRoutingKey("foo"); // default exchange - route to queue 'foo'
        return outbound;
    }

    @Bean
    public AsyncRabbitTemplate asyncTemplate(RabbitTemplate rabbitTemplate,
                     SimpleMessageListenerContainer replyContainer) {

        return new AsyncRabbitTemplate(rabbitTemplate, replyContainer);
    }

    @Bean
    public SimpleMessageListenerContainer replyContainer() {
        SimpleMessageListenerContainer container = new SimpleMessageListenerContainer(ccf);
        container.setQueueNames("asyncRQ1");
        return container;
    }

    @Bean
    public MessageChannel amqpOutboundChannel() {
        return new DirectChannel();
    }

}

<int-amqp:outbound-async-gateway id="asyncOutboundGateway"    (1)
                           request-channel="myRequestChannel" (2)
                           async-template=""                  (3)
                           exchange-name=""                   (4)
                           exchange-name-expression=""        (5)
                           order="1"                          (6)
                           reply-channel=""                   (7)
                           reply-timeout=""                   (8)
                           requires-reply=""                  (9)
                           routing-key=""                     (10)
                           routing-key-expression=""          (11)
                           default-delivery-mode""            (12)
                           confirm-correlation-expression=""  (13)
                           confirm-ack-channel=""             (14)
                           confirm-nack-channel=""            (15)
                           confirm-timeout=""                 (16)
                           return-channel=""                  (17)
                           lazy-connect="true" />             (18)

1	The unique ID for this adapter. Optional.
2	Message channel to which messages should be sent in order to have them converted and published to an AMQP exchange. Required.
3	Bean reference to the configured `AsyncRabbitTemplate`. Optional (it defaults to `asyncRabbitTemplate`).
4	The name of the AMQP exchange to which messages should be sent. If not provided, messages are sent to the default, no-name exchange. Mutually exclusive with 'exchange-name-expression'. Optional.
5	A SpEL expression that is evaluated to determine the name of the AMQP exchange to which messages are sent, with the message as the root object. If not provided, messages are sent to the default, no-name exchange. Mutually exclusive with 'exchange-name'. Optional.
6	The order for this consumer when multiple consumers are registered, thereby enabling load-balancing and failover. Optional (it defaults to `Ordered.LOWEST_PRECEDENCE [=Integer.MAX_VALUE]`).
7	Message channel to which replies should be sent after being received from an AMQP queue and converted. Optional.
8	The time the gateway waits when sending the reply message to the `reply-channel`. This only applies if the `reply-channel` can block — such as a `QueueChannel` with a capacity limit that is currently full. The default is infinity.
9	When no reply message is received within the AsyncRabbitTemplate’s `receiveTimeout property and this setting is `true`, the gateway sends an error message to the inbound message’s `errorChannel` header. When no reply message is received within the AsyncRabbitTemplate’s `receiveTimeout property and this setting is `false`, the gateway sends an error message to the default `errorChannel` (if available). It defaults to `true`.
10	The routing-key to use when sending Messages. By default, this is an empty `String`. Mutually exclusive with 'routing-key-expression'. Optional.
11	A SpEL expression that is evaluated to determine the routing-key to use when sending messages, with the message as the root object (for example, 'payload.key'). By default, this is an empty `String`. Mutually exclusive with 'routing-key'. Optional.
12	The default delivery mode for messages: `PERSISTENT` or `NON_PERSISTENT`. Overridden if the `header-mapper` sets the delivery mode. If the Spring Integration message header (`amqp_deliveryMode`) is present, the `DefaultHeaderMapper` sets the value. If this attribute is not supplied and the header mapper does not set it, the default depends on the underlying Spring AMQP `MessagePropertiesConverter` used by the `RabbitTemplate`. If that is not customized, the default is `PERSISTENT`. Optional.
13	An expression that defines correlation data. When provided, this configures the underlying AMQP template to receive publisher confirmations. Requires a dedicated `RabbitTemplate` and a `CachingConnectionFactory` with its `publisherConfirms` property set to `true`. When a publisher confirmation is received and correlation data is supplied, the confirmation is written to either the `confirm-ack-channel` or the `confirm-nack-channel`, depending on the confirmation type. The payload of the confirmation is the correlation data as defined by this expression, and the message has its 'amqp_publishConfirm' header set to `true` (`ack`) or `false` (`nack`). For `nack` instances, an additional header (`amqp_publishConfirmNackCause`) is provided. Examples: `headers['myCorrelationData']`, `payload`. If the expression resolves to a `Message<?>` instance (such as “#this”), the message emitted on the `ack`/`nack` channel is based on that message, with the additional headers added. Also see Alternative Mechanism for Publisher Confirms and Returns. Optional.
14	The channel to which positive (`ack`) publisher confirmations are sent. The payload is the correlation data defined by the `confirm-correlation-expression`. Requires the underlying `AsyncRabbitTemplate` to have its `enableConfirms` property set to `true`. Also see Alternative Mechanism for Publisher Confirms and Returns. Optional (the default is `nullChannel`).
15	Since version 4.2. The channel to which negative (`nack`) publisher confirmations are sent. The payload is the correlation data defined by the `confirm-correlation-expression`. Requires the underlying `AsyncRabbitTemplate` to have its `enableConfirms` property set to `true`. Also see Alternative Mechanism for Publisher Confirms and Returns. Optional (the default is `nullChannel`).
16	When set, the gateway will synthesize a negative acknowledgment (nack) if a publisher confirm is not received within this time in milliseconds. Pending confirms are checked every 50% of this value, so the actual time a nack is sent will be between 1x and 1.5x this value. Also see Alternative Mechanism for Publisher Confirms and Returns. Default none (nacks will not be generated).
17	The channel to which returned messages are sent. When provided, the underlying AMQP template is configured to return undeliverable messages to the gateway. The message is constructed from the data received from AMQP, with the following additional headers: `amqp_returnReplyCode`, `amqp_returnReplyText`, `amqp_returnExchange`, and `amqp_returnRoutingKey`. Requires the underlying `AsyncRabbitTemplate` to have its `mandatory` property set to `true`. Also see Alternative Mechanism for Publisher Confirms and Returns. Optional.
18	When set to `false`, the endpoint tries to connect to the broker during application context initialization. Doing so allows “fail fast” detection of bad configuration, by logging an error message if the broker is down. When `true` (the default), the connection is established (if it does not already exist because some other component established it) when the first message is sent.

See also Asynchronous Service Activator for more information.

RabbitTemplate

When you use confirmations and returns, we recommend that the RabbitTemplate wired into the AsyncRabbitTemplate be dedicated. Otherwise, unexpected side effects may be encountered.