Accessing Topics' Information at Runtime

Since 2.9, you can access information regarding the topic chain at runtime by injecting the provided DestinationTopicContainer bean. This interface provides methods to look up the next topic in the chain or the DLT for a topic if configured, as well as useful properties such as the topic’s name, delay and type.

As a real-world use-case example, you can use such information so a console application can resend a record from the DLT to the first retry topic in the chain after the cause of the failed processing, e.g. bug / inconsistent state, has been resolved.