Any way to invoke a RecoveryCallback in a RabbitTemplate send operation?

Question

I'm currently working with Spring AMQP version 1.3.6.RELEASE and Spring Retry 1.1.2.RELEASE. According to the Spring AMQP documentation section 3.3.1 one can add retry capabilities by passing in a RetryTemplate.

Are there any existing capabilities to provide a RecoveryCallback<T> implementation? I was reviewing the RabbitTemplate.java implementation and I couldn't find any.

The use case I'm considering is that if a *Send() execution fails because the broker is down I'd like to implement my own custom logic.

I understand that I could wrap the convertAndSend() call in my own RetryTemplate implementation and implement a try { ... } catch (AmqpException e) { ... } but I did not want to go down that road if Spring AMQP provided a cleaner implementation.

Answer 1

You are correct: there is no such an ability right now.

Feel free to raise a JIRA issue and we'll address it soon.

Thanks.

And I think you go right way with a workaround: you really just use your own RetryTemplate instance with raw RabbitTemplate.convertAndSend invocation in the doWithRetry inline implementation.