How to use pika to send a file via rabbitmq?

Question

I have looked through the tutorials on rabbitmq and find it useful.

But I can't find a document telling how to send files via rabbitmq, using pika.

Code examples are preferred, and other libraries other than pika are acceptable.

What have you tried? RabbitMQ supports binary. Can you serialize to binary and then send? — Davin Tryon, Aug 31 '12 at 08:51
@dtryon seems pika only accepts string as the parameter. I tried using pickle, but pickle can't serialize file object — can., Aug 31 '12 at 09:14
Have you seen this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1859438/using-python-how-do-i-get-a-binary-serialization-of-my-google-protobuf-message — Davin Tryon, Aug 31 '12 at 11:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 07 '16 at 18:51

0

I've done this by using base64encode.

I build a json object - example:

data = {
filname = 'myfile.txt',
b64 = 'the base64 representation of the file'
}

Then, at the consumer side

base64decode :)

answered Dec 07 '16 at 18:51

Alex Hellier

score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '12 at 19:11

-2

You can send file name as a message and on consumer side you can setup passwordless scp to fetch file from remote machine hosting the file.

answered Sep 24 '12 at 19:11

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