Enabled debug logs on the spring XD container running rabbit module, It showed following exception repeatedly happening for the first message and message is requeued back thus the message stays in unacknowledged state and rabbit source can not process further messages..
To resolve the problem, from log4j Appender properties I removed this property, log4j.appender.amqp.contentEncoding=null
. This property explicitly specifies name of the encoder as "null", which seems to be a bug. I was expecting null means no encoder specified :)
Exception in the log, continuously repeating as message is rejected and re-queued back..
19:29:17,713 DEBUG SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-1 listener.BlockingQueueConsumer:268 - Received message: (Body:'Hello'MessageProperties [headers={categoryName=org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.NodeManager, level=INFO}, timestamp=Sat Apr 19 19:21:52 PDT 2014, messageId=null, userId=null, appId=NodeManager, clusterId=null, type=null, correlationId=null, replyTo=null, contentType=text/plain, contentEncoding=null, contentLength=0, deliveryMode=PERSISTENT, expiration=null, priority=0, redelivered=true, receivedExchange=test-exch, receivedRoutingKey=rk1, deliveryTag=184015, messageCount=0]) 19:29:17,715 WARN SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-1 listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer:530 - Execution of Rabbit message listener failed, and no ErrorHandler has been set. org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.ListenerExecutionFailedException: Listener threw exception at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.wrapToListenerExecutionFailedExceptionIfNeeded(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:751) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.doInvokeListener(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:690) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.invokeListener(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:583) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.access$001(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:75) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer$1.invokeListener(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:154) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.invokeListener(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1111) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.executeListener(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:556) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.doReceiveAndExecute(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:904) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.receiveAndExecute(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:888) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.access$500(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:75) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageProcessingConsumer.run(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:989) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) Caused by: org.springframework.amqp.support.converter.MessageConversionException: failed to convert text-based Message content at org.springframework.amqp.support.converter.SimpleMessageConverter.fromMessage(SimpleMessageConverter.java:100) at org.springframework.integration.amqp.inbound.AmqpInboundChannelAdapter$1.onMessage(AmqpInboundChannelAdapter.java:73) at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.AbstractMessageListenerContainer.doInvokeListener(AbstractMessageListenerContainer.java:688) ... 10 more Caused by: java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException: null at java.lang.StringCoding.decode(StringCoding.java:190) at java.lang.String.(String.java:416) at java.lang.String.(String.java:481) at org.springframework.amqp.support.converter.SimpleMessageConverter.fromMessage(SimpleMessageConverter.java:97) ... 12 more 19:29:17,715 DEBUG SimpleAsyncTaskExecutor-1 listener.BlockingQueueConsumer:657 - Rejecting messages (requeue=true)