Can you federate the "default" exchange? Should you federate the "default" exchange?

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I'm experimenting with the RabbitMQ and also the Federation plugin. I want to test RabbitMQ Federation with two brokers configured for bi-directional upstream but my sender/receiver python scripts use the "default" exchange ... which does not get Federated.

Can you federate the "default" exchange? If yes, how? Also if yes, should you (in terms of best-practices, etc) federate the "default" exchange?

In the short term, I will probably just go with creating a new "hello-exchange" and then federating that and rejiggering my sender/receiver to use this new exchange.

You can't federate the default-exchange https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-federation/blob/master/src/rabbit_federation_exchange.erl#L86 — Gabriele Santomaggio, Nov 09 '15 at 19:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '15 at 22:43

No you can't Federate the "default" exchange. I found the official documentation for it: https://www.rabbitmq.com/federated-exchanges.html. Somehow I missed this part of the documentation.

(Also see @Gabriele's comment for the direct github sourcecode if you want to see more lowlevel (and it says why... but the "why" is also very lowlevel).)

Can you federate the "default" exchange? Should you federate the "default" exchange?

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