Artemis ActiveMQ broker.xml wildcard-addresses configuration reference

Question

I'm currently configuring an Artemis ActiveMQ Broker and need to change the default ''wildcard-addresses''. So I found the ''wildcard-addresses'' tag, but I didn't find the information I need, so I have two questions:

1. I want to set routing-enabled to true, but just for the tag ''any-words'' and disable the ''single-word'' tag (or just want to know if this is even possible).
2. I didn't find the answer in the official documentation, so I'm wondering if someone found a good reference which explains the different tags for the ''wildcard-addresses'' configuration, which is in the style of the ''Configuration Reference'', but includes a section about ''wildcard-addresses''.

What I've found so far but does not satisfy me:

• Wildcard-syntax
• Routing Messages with wildcards
• Configuration reference

Thanks in advance, Alex

Answer 1

There is no way to disable certain match types (i.e. single word or any words), and it's not clear why one would want to.

The wildcard-addresses block is for enabling/disabling wild-card routing and for customizing the wild-card syntax.

Here's the basics (as described in the documentation):

• A wildcard expression contains words delimited by the character defined by delimiter (i.e. . by default).
• The character defined by any-words (i.e. # by default) means "match any sequence of zero or more words."
• The character defined by single-word (i.e. * by default) means "match a single word."