Python AMQP 0.9.1 client library

Version:	2.0.0a1
Web:	http://amqp.readthedocs.org/
Download:	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/amqp/
Source:	http://github.com/celery/py-amqp/
Keywords:	amqp, rabbitmq

About

This is a fork of amqplib which was originally written by Barry Pederson. It is maintained by the Celery project, and used by kombu as a pure python alternative when librabbitmq is not available.

This library should be API compatible with librabbitmq.

Differences from amqplib

• Supports draining events from multiple channels (Connection.drain_events)

• Support for timeouts

• Channels are restored after channel error, instead of having to close the connection.

• Support for heartbeats

  • Connection.heartbeat_tick(rate=2) must called at regular intervals (half of the heartbeat value if rate is 2).
  • Or some other scheme by using Connection.send_heartbeat.

• Supports RabbitMQ extensions:

  • Consumer Cancel Notifications

    • by default a cancel results in ChannelError being raised
    • but not if a on_cancel callback is passed to basic_consume.

  • Publisher confirms

    • Channel.confirm_select() enables publisher confirms.
    • Channel.events['basic_ack'].append(my_callback) adds a callback to be called when a message is confirmed. This callback is then called with the signature (delivery_tag, multiple).

  • Exchange-to-exchange bindings: exchange_bind / exchange_unbind.

    • Channel.confirm_select() enables publisher confirms.
    • Channel.events['basic_ack'].append(my_callback) adds a callback to be called when a message is confirmed. This callback is then called with the signature (delivery_tag, multiple).

• Support for basic_return

• Uses AMQP 0-9-1 instead of 0-8.

  • Channel.access_request and ticket arguments to methods removed.
  • Supports the arguments argument to basic_consume.
  • internal argument to exchange_declare removed.
  • auto_delete argument to exchange_declare deprecated
  • insist argument to Connection removed.
  • Channel.alerts has been removed.
  • Support for Channel.basic_recover_async.
  • Channel.basic_recover deprecated.

• Exceptions renamed to have idiomatic names:

  • AMQPException -> AMQPError
  • AMQPConnectionException -> ConnectionError``
  • AMQPChannelException -> ChannelError``
  • Connection.known_hosts removed.
  • Connection no longer supports redirects.
  • exchange argument to queue_bind can now be empty to use the "default exchange".

• Adds Connection.is_alive that tries to detect whether the connection can still be used.

• Adds Connection.connection_errors and .channel_errors, a list of recoverable errors.

• Exposes the underlying socket as Connection.sock.

• Adds Channel.no_ack_consumers to keep track of consumer tags that set the no_ack flag.

• Slightly better at error recovery

Further

• Differences between AMQP 0.8 and 0.9.1

  http://www.rabbitmq.com/amqp-0-8-to-0-9-1.html

• AMQP 0.9.1 Quick Reference

  http://www.rabbitmq.com/amqp-0-9-1-quickref.html

• RabbitMQ Extensions

  http://www.rabbitmq.com/extensions.html

• For more information about AMQP, visit

  http://www.amqp.org

• For other Python client libraries see:

  http://www.rabbitmq.com/devtools.html#python-dev