Dynamic SendTo annotation

Question

I have Java code as following to receive messages form a queue, process it and write processed message to another queue.

    @RabbitListener(queues = "rawFusion")
    @SendTo("Fusion")
    public String receiverFusion(Object _message) {
        String message = getMessage(_message);
        return messageParser.parse(message);
    }

Here i always get messages from "rawFusion" queue and write it into "Fusion" queue.

The thing I want to do is, writing messages different queues depending on some conditions. So i would like decide @SendTo parameter (or maybe without using @SendTo) after i receive message from the "RawFusion" queue.

Any idea how to do that?

Thanks in advance

Gary Russell · Answer 1 · 2017-06-13T14:44:42.900

If the sender sets the replyTo message property (either a queue name or exchange/routkingKey), the container will use that. The @SendTo is only used if there's not replyTo in the message.

If you can't change the sender, when using @RabbitListener, the @SendTo can contain a SpEL expression but it doesn't have any context from the request, which I suspect you would need to intelligently route the reply.

You could store something in a ThreadLocal and use

@SendTo("#{someBean.someMethod()}")

to retrieve it.

I will open a JIRA issue to see if we can come up with a mechanism to provide some context (e.g. input arguments) to the evaluation.

EDIT

Starting with version 1.6, the @SendTo can be a SpEL expression that is evaluated at runtime against the request and reply. @SendTo("!{'some.reply.queue.with.' + result.queueName}")

[Starting with version 1.6, the @SendTo can be a SpEL expression that is evaluated at runtime against the request and reply](http://docs.spring.io/spring-amqp/reference/html/_reference.html#async-annotation-driven-reply). `@SendTo("!{'some.reply.queue.with.' + result.queueName}")` — Gary Russell, Jun 13 '17 at 14:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '16 at 23:42

Unfortunately I cannot make any change on sender's message and it seems SpEL expression does not solve my problem in this case. But I found a workaround. I am not sure if its a good practice but it solves my problem for now.

I used @SendTo("exchange/") i didnt use any routing key. In my message i set a header value like "destination=testQueue" and i created an headers exchange which route my message depending on destination value.

Thanks for your answer and i hope we can have a mechanism that we can determine @SendTo value after we receive the Message.

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