multiple Rabbitmq queues with spring boot

Question

From spring boot tutorial: https://spring.io/guides/gs/messaging-rabbitmq/

They give an example of creating 1 queue and 1 queue only, but, what if I want to be able to create more then 1 queue? how would it be possible?

Obviously, I can't just create the same bean twice:

@Bean
Queue queue() {
    return new Queue(queueNameAAA, false);
}

@Bean
Queue queue() {
    return new Queue(queueNameBBB, false);
}

You can't create the same bean twice, it will make ambiguous.

Answer 1

Give the bean definition factory methods different names. Usually, by convention, you would name them the same as the queue, but that's not required...

@Bean
Queue queue1() {
    return new Queue(queueNameAAA, false);
}

@Bean
Queue queue2() {
    return new Queue(queueNameBBB, false); 
}

The method name is the bean name.

EDIT

When using the queues in the binding beans, there are two options:

@Bean
Binding binding1(@Qualifier("queue1") Queue queue, TopicExchange exchange) {
    return BindingBuilder.bind(queue).to(exchange).with(queueNameAAA);
}

@Bean
Binding binding2(@Qualifier("queue2") Queue queue, TopicExchange exchange) {
    return BindingBuilder.bind(queue).to(exchange).with(queueNameBBB);
}

or

@Bean
Binding binding1(TopicExchange exchange) {
    return BindingBuilder.bind(queue1()).to(exchange).with(queueNameAAA);
}

@Bean
Binding binding2(TopicExchange exchange) {
    return BindingBuilder.bind(queue2()).to(exchange).with(queueNameBBB);
}

or even better...

@Bean
Binding binding1(TopicExchange exchange) {
    return BindingBuilder.bind(queue1()).to(exchange).with(queue1().getName());
}

@Bean
Binding binding2(TopicExchange exchange) {
    return BindingBuilder.bind(queue2()).to(exchange).with(queue2().getName());
}