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Message label in Rabbitmq

MSMQ messages have a Label property. It can contain an application-defined string describing the message. Does Rabbitmq have such a concept? Maybe it's called differently - haven't found anything similar yet.

Solution

  • I would use custom message headers. They are a lot more flexible than the MSMQ label. You can store string, number or boolean, or a list of those values.

    Add custom headers to the IBasicProperties (C# example)

    var properties = channel.CreateBasicProperties();
properties.Headers = new Dictionary<string, object>();
properties.Headers.Add("Label", "some text");

    When you consume, extract them from the IBasicProperties.